Friends Advice

Summary

Friends Advice is a historic home and national historic district located at Boyds, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is an estate dominated by a main house of local sandstone in the impressive overall image of a Georgian plantation house. The earliest portion, the ca. 1806 Federal style block, sits on a stone foundation with a gable roof and gabled dormers. Later additions include a Colonial Revival-style block constructed in 1939–40; a Federal style block of the first quarter of the 19th century; and a frame block constructed in 1882 on the foundation of an 18th-century log structure. General Albert C. Wedemeyer (1897-1989) and his wife, whose family owned this property since the 18th century, used this estate as their permanent home throughout his military career and after his retirement in 1951, until his death in 1989.[2]

Friends Advice
Friends Advice, September 2012
Friends Advice is located in Maryland
Friends Advice
Friends Advice is located in the United States
Friends Advice
Location19001 Bucklodge Rd., Boyds, Maryland
Coordinates39°9′58″N 77°21′31″W / 39.16611°N 77.35861°W / 39.16611; -77.35861
Area38 acres (15 ha)
Built1806 (1806)
ArchitectGrigg, Milton
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Federal
NRHP reference No.92001383[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 28, 1992

Friends Advice was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Eileen S. McGuckian and Roy H. Gauzza Jr. (January 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Friends Advice" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.

External links edit

  • Friends Advice, Montgomery County, Inventory No.: M: 18-15, including photo in 1974, at Maryland Historical Trust website