Maryland copied Homewood, the Baltimore house of the son of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was built in brick by Douglas H. Thomas, and the bricks looked as though they had weathered a hundred winters. There were iron railings beside the broad stairs and a knocker on the paneled door under an old fanlight. Two rooms were furnished historically, one Jacobean and one in Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, and there was a Mason-Dixon milestone. A little girl, Todd reports, said touring the State buildings was "like going into nice people's houses."
The building also held a geological exhibit and a Baltimore social-economy display. The exhibit catalogue of its historical rooms ran to 36 pages. On Maryland Day, May 19, 1915, Governor Goldsborough planted a white oak.
