St. Richard's Manor
St. Richard's Manor | |
Location | Millstone Landing Rd., Lexington Park, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 38°17′45″N 76°28′12″W / 38.29583°N 76.47000°W |
Architect | Unknown |
Architectural style | No Style Listed |
NRHP reference No. | 85000655 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 28, 1985 |
St. Richard's Manor is a historic home located at Lexington Park, St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a 1+1⁄2-story Flemish bond brick dwelling, with a steeply pitched gable roof, constructed before 1750 on the Patuxent River. Also on the property are two tobacco barns built about 1935, and a small pyramid-roofed concrete block pumphouse.[2]
On December 16, 1652, "St. Richard's Manor" was re-patented to Luke Gardiner, heir of Richard Gardiner, because the original patent had been lost as a result of the internal strife with Ingle in 1645. Shortly afterwards /_that is in the 1650s _/ Richard Edelen was contracted by Luke to build a second house on the Manor on fifty-five acres of the original land patent. This house is no longer existent; despite some local conjecture, evidence points to construction relatively shortly before 1750.[3] Richard Edelen built a second house called "Riverview" (circa 1659) for Luke Gardiner near St. Clements Island.[4]
St. Richard's Manor was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ George A.T. Donely and Peter E. Kurtze (October 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Richard's Manor" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- ^ George A.T. Donely and Peter E. Kurtze (October 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: St. Richard's Manor" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
- ^ "Adventurers Cavaliers Patriots Ancestors Remembered Published by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland, 1994
External links
[edit]- St. Richard's Manor, St. Mary's County, including photo from 1976, at Maryland Historical Trust