The Clagett House at Cool Spring Manor is a historic house in Prince George's County, Maryland, built around 1830 by William Digges Clagett on the family's Cool Spring Manor property. Constructed in a style more typical of the Deep South, it is a hip roofed wood frame dwelling standing on a brick foundation.[2]
Clagett House at Cool Spring Manor | |
 Cemetery near the house | |
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| Nearest city | Upper Marlboro, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°52′23″N 76°41′54″W / 38.87306°N 76.69833°W |
| Built | ca. 1830 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 11000322 [1][2] |
| Added to NRHP | June 3, 2011 |
Layout
editThe upper floor consists of a wide central hall with two bedrooms on one side and two parlours on the other; each room has a fireplace with its own chimney rising straight through the roof. The basement floor, which projects halfway out of the ground, contained the original kitchen, a summer bedroom and a pantry; later a kitchen was made on the upper floor by walling off the back section of the hall.[2] Porches run the full length of the north side of the house and partway across the south side.
Near the house are a small family burial plot, and various more recent outbuildings including a couple of 20th century barns. The house has stayed in the family, but after 1917 the property was farmed by tenants, and the house is now unoccupied.[2] This house is the only example of this form in Prince George's County and one of the very few such in the state; "Arden" in Anne Arundel County is one of the few similar structures in Maryland.[2]
Register
editThe house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[1] This home was also owned by Edward Reynolds Owens the son of James Owens.
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Program: Lists of Weekly Actions for June 10, 2011". National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
- ^ a b c d e Susan G. Pearl (July 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Clagett House at Cool Spring Manor" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
External links
edit- Clagett House at Cool Spring Manor, Prince George's County, Inventory No.: PG:74B-15, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust website