Temora (Ellicott City, Maryland)

Temora

Temora, January 2011
Location 4252 Columbia Rd., Ellicott City, Maryland
Coordinates 39°15′14″N 76°49′28″W / 39.25389°N 76.82444°W / 39.25389; -76.82444Coordinates: 39°15′14″N 76°49′28″W / 39.25389°N 76.82444°W / 39.25389; -76.82444
Area 14.2 acres (5.7 ha)
Built 1857 (1857)
Architect Starkwether, Nathan Gibson
Architectural style Tuscan Victorian
NRHP Reference # 76001003[1]
Added to NRHP April 30, 1976

Temora, is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland. It is a T-shaped, two-story and cupola, Tuscan-style Victorian house of stuccoed tongue-and-groove boards. The house was built in 1857 after a design prepared by Nathan G. Starkweather, a little-known but accomplished architect from Oxford, England, who also designed the First Presbyterian Church and Manse at West Madison Street and Park Avenue in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, with his later more famous assistant - Edmund G. Lind.[2] The house was built for Dr. Arthur Pue Jr. on land given from his grandmother Mary Dorsey Pue of Belmont Estate.[3][4]

Laura Hanna and Mrs John Breckinridge lived in the property afterward. County Councilman and representative William S. Hanna was also raised at Temora[5]

A portion of the estate served as a farm with a hay field. In 1980, developer Alan Borg purchased the property, performing a minor restoration. In 1984 Borg held a "Decorator's Showhouse" event with rooms redecorated for free by various decorators retaining some of the original period materials combined with outside furnishings and materials.[6] In 1985, Borg attempted to convert the house into a 15 room inn and restaurant, but failed to approval for the increased activity on the lot in a residential neighborhood.[7] The land has been subdivided with a LDS Church built in the former pasture.[8]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[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. ↑ Frances Wellford Mason (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Temora" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. ↑ "Loveley Historic Howard County Homes". The Times (Elkridge). 31 March 1965.
  4. ↑ Howard County Historical Society. Images of America Howard County. p. 79.
  5. ↑ DeWitt Bliss (1 December 1994). "W.S. Hanna, lawmaker and real estate broker". The Baltimore Sun.
  6. ↑ "200-year-old estate renovated". The Baltimore Sun. 19 September 1984.
  7. ↑ Phillip Davis (8 February 1985). "Howard board rejects plans for Temora". The Baltimore Sun.
  8. ↑ James A. Clark Jr. Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. p. 25.

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