Mount Aventine
Mount Aventine | |
![]() Front of the Chapman House | |
Nearest city | Bryans Road, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 38°37′4″N 77°7′3″W / 38.61778°N 77.11750°W |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 94001328[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 18, 1996 |
Mount Aventine is a farm complex and national historic district located along the Potomac River in Bryans Road, Charles County, Maryland. The complex includes the main house; a second-quarter 19th century Greek Revival-influenced brick house. It was enlarged about 1860 to its present five-bay, center-passage, 2+1⁄2-story appearance. Also on the property are a 19th-century frame smokehouse, the site of another 19th-century house complex, late-19th /early-20th-century agricultural outbuildings, house and dairy barn complex built about 1900, historic roadbeds, a family cemetery, and sites of a 19th-century fishery and an 18th-century house.[2]
Its former cupola was used as a signal station by the Federal government during the American Civil War. The Chapman family owned the Mt. Aventine tract from 1751 until 1916, and the ferry operated by them was one of several important crossings of the Potomac River connecting Northern Virginia to Maryland.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996,[1] and since 1998 has been preserved as part of Chapman State Park.[3]
The house is open for tours during special events hosted by the Friends of Chapman State Park.
Gallery
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Rear of the Chapman House
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Abandoned barn
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b J. Richard Rivoire (July 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Aventine" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
- ^ "Chapman State Park". Maryland DNR. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
External links
[edit]- Chapman State Park Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- Friends of Chapman State Park
- Mount Aventine, including photo from 1991, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Historic districts in Charles County, Maryland
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Greek Revival houses in Maryland
- Houses in Charles County, Maryland
- Museums in Charles County, Maryland
- Historic house museums in Maryland
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places in Charles County, Maryland