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Maryland Building ('Homewood')

A brick copy of Homewood, the Carroll family mansion near Baltimore, furnished as two historic period rooms.

The Maryland Building ('Homewood'), color postcard
The Maryland Building ('Homewood'), color postcardUnknown publisher, 1915, public domain

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.

At a glance

  • State appropriation $75,000.
  • Dedicated March 20, 1915.
  • Designed by Douglas H. Thomas.
  • Maryland Day, May 19, 1915.

Afterward

Not recorded; presumably auctioned and wrecked.

Where it stood

Maryland Building ('Homewood') stood at about 37.80473 N, 122.45534 W on today's map. The whole fairground over the city →

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