Round About Hills

Round About Hills

Round About Hills, January 2011
Location 15505 Cattail Oaks, Glenwood, Maryland
Coordinates 39°16′20″N 77°01′59″W / 39.27222°N 77.03306°W / 39.27222; -77.03306Coordinates: 39°16′20″N 77°01′59″W / 39.27222°N 77.03306°W / 39.27222; -77.03306
Area 3.2 acres (1.3 ha)
Built 1773 (1773)
Architectural style Southern colonial
NRHP Reference # 08001072[1]
Added to NRHP November 20, 2008

Round About Hills or Peacefields is a historic slave plantation home located at Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland. An alternate address for this house is 14581 McClintock Drive, Glenwood, Maryland.[2] It was built about 1773 on a 266-acre land patent and consists of a 1 12-story frame house with a stone end. Thomas Beale Dorsey inherited the property in 1794 then exchanged his interest in the plantation with Thomas Cook's stagecoach wayside town Cooksville.[3][4]

The main block is three bays wide by one bay deep, with a gambrel roof and 1-story hip-roofed porch. It features a long screened porch with exposed rafter tails and an 1820 stone kitchen addition. Also on the property is a stone slave quarters outbuilding and a small frame outbuilding.[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 11/17/08 THROUGH 11/21/08". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-02.
  3. Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 42.
  4. Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 252.
  5. Kenneth M. Short (July 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Round About Hills" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

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