Summary
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 Norris 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] The name of the estate Temora comes from the poems of Ossian[5]
Temora | |
 Temora, January 2011 | |
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| Location | 4252 Columbia Rd., Ellicott City, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°15′14″N 76°49′28″W / 39.25389°N 76.82444°W |
| Area | 14.2 acres (5.7 ha) |
| Built | 1857 |
| Architect | Starkwether, Nathan Gibson |
| Architectural style | Tuscan Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 76001003[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 30, 1976 |
Laura Hanna and Mrs John Breckinridge lived in the property afterward. County Councilman and representative William S. Hanna was also raised at Temora[6]
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.[7] 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.[8] The land has been subdivided with a LDS Church built in the former pasture.[9]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Frances Wellford Mason (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Temora" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- ^ "Loveley Historic Howard County Homes". The Times (Elkridge). 31 March 1965.
- ^ Howard County Historical Society. Images of America Howard County. p. 79.
- ^ Stein, Charles Francis (1972). Origin and History of Howard County Maryland (First ed.). Charles Francis Stein, Jr. p. 265.
- ^ DeWitt Bliss (1 December 1994). "W.S. Hanna, lawmaker and real estate broker". The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ "200-year-old estate renovated". The Baltimore Sun. 19 September 1984.
- ^ Phillip Davis (8 February 1985). "Howard board rejects plans for Temora". The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ James A. Clark Jr. Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. p. 25.
External links edit
- Temora, Howard County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust