HO-315

George Burgess House

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Last Updated: 05-03-2004

H0-315 The George Burgess House Ellicott City Private

circa 1840

The George Burgess House faces south on the northwest corner of Frederick Road and Ellicott Mills Drive.

It is a three bay wide, one room deep, three and a half story high, stone first floor, on which have been laid two and a half stories of brick (laid in English Garden wall brick bond) building, with wide brick chimneys set into its east and west walls.

It features a particularly fine south facade with central first and second floor entrances leading out to each floor of a two story high, shed roofed, open porch, running along the entire south facade. Fenestration is proportionally scaled and vertically aligned. Windows are rectangular, double-hung, holding six-over-six lights, underlined by flat, projecting wooden sills and surmounted by stretcher brick lintels.

Acquired by George Burgess from Samuel Ellicott in the mid-nine­teenth century, the building features random width floors, woodwork composed of pilasters and lintels decorated with two square cut flutes, joined by square corners, and five original mantle pieces.

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MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST MAGI# 1403155404

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

UNAME HISTORIC

The George Burgess House AND/OR COMMON

IJLOCATION STREET & NUMBER

8448 Frederick Road (Main Street)

CITY. TOWN Ellicott City VICINITY OF

STATE Maryland

D CLASSIFICATION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS XD1STRICT _PUBLIC X...ocCUPIED

_BUILDING(SI XPRIVATE _UNOCCUPIED

_STRUCTURE _BOTH _WORK IN PROGRESS

_SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE _OBJECT _IN PROCESS :x_YES RESTRICTED

_BEING CONSIDERED _YES UNRESTRICTED

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DOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Elsie Beall and Hilda Ferguson

STREET & NUMBER 8448 Frederick Road

CITY TOWN Ellicott City, _ VICINITY OF

llLOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION couRTHousE Tax Map 2 5, p. 15 7 REGISTRY oF DEEDS.ETC Hal 1 of Records STREET & NUMBER

Howard County Court House CITY. TOWN

Ellicott City

l!IREPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE

Howard County Historic Sites Inventory DATE

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

6th COUNTY

Howard

PRESENT USE

_AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM

_COMMERCIAL __ PA~K

_EDUCATIONAL X_PRIVATE RESIDENCE

_ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS

__ GOVERNMENT

_INDUSTRIAL

_MILITARY

Telephone #:

_SCIENTIFIC

_TRANSPORTATION

_OTHER

STATE ' Zl.p code Maryland 21043

Liber #: 428 Folio #: 458

STATE

Maryland

1978-1979 _FEDERAL X.STATE _COUNTY _LOCAL

DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS

CITY. TOWN

Maryland Historical Trust

21 State Circle, Annapolis STATE

Maryland

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B DESCRIPTION

_EXCELLENT

~GOOD _FAIR

CONDITION

_DETERIORATED

-RUINS

_ UNEXPOSED

CHECK ONE

-UNALTERED

x..ALTERED

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C.HECK ONE

X..ORIGfNAL SITE _MOVED DATE __ _

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

The George Burgess House faces south on the northwest corner of Frederick Road and Ellicott Mills Drive. It is a three bay wide, one room deep, gabled roof (running east-west) one story high,stone house on which two and a half stories of brick (laid in English Garden wall brick bond) have been placed. The stone first floor sets into the high slope of land, acting as a stone foundation. Wide brick chimneys are set into the building's east and west walls.

SOUTH FACADE

Three wide, poured in place concrete steps, lead to the wooden landing of a two story high, shed roofed, open porch, which runs along the entire south elevation, held by four, large, square, posts on the first floor, and four, proportionally scaled, square, wooden posts on the second floor.

A central, second floor entrance door, flanked by rectangular, double-hung. six-over-six light windows leads on to the second floor of the porch.

A wide, granite block threshold stone is placed at the central, first floor, south facade entrance of the stone foundation, flanked by single, rectangular, double-hung windows, holding six-over-six lights, underlined by wooden sills.

Fenestration for the south elevation is proportionally scaled and vertically aligned. Windows for the entire house are rectangular and double-hung, holding six-over-six lights, underlined by flat, project­ing wooden sills and, on the second and third floors, surmounted by flat, stretcher brick lintels. Two gabled roof dormer windows are placed in the roof of the south facade.

WEST ELEVATION

No apertures are placed in this elevation.

NORTH ELEVATION

Constructed into the slope of land on the north side of Frederick Road, this elevation reveals only the second and third floors, which becomes, on this elevation, the firs~ and second floors. A shed roof, aluminum awning, held by five iron rods, ~overs the central entrance door, flanked by single, rectangular windows, similar to those described, all of which are vertically aligned to the second floor.

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A second floor, rectangular window has been cut into the north side of this elevation. A hipped roof, extended into a shed roofed, one story high, three bay wide, two bay deep, frame kitchen addition, resting on a stone foundation, runs along the entire.east wall of the stone section of the house, fronted by a six rectangular, one-over­one light, wide, enclosed porch with west entry;. on its south wall.

A one story high, two bay wide, one bay deep, gabled roof (run­ning north-south) vertically framed building, with shed roofed lean-to on its west wall, is placed at the northeast corner of the building.

INTERIOR

The interior of the house is divided into two rooms with a corner staircase located in the northwest corner of the house. Five of the original mantlepieces can be seen. One on the west side of the ground floor features flat pilasters and architrave; those on the second and third floors of the west wall are similar, featuring flat pilasters with two square flutes and fluted architraves, whose flutes terminate in a square curl, the two mantlepieces located on the east wall of the second and third floor are also similar, flanked by flat pilasters with relatively simple capitals and unimbellished architraves.

The woodwork of the ground floor is composed of simple, unmitred, flat lintels and pilasters. The second and third floors feature pilasters with two squarely cut flutes, joined to similar lintels by square corners.

Wide random width floors are featured throughout the house.

Iii SIGNIFICANCE

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

-ARCHEOLUGY·PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

~RCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION -LAW

-AGRICULTURl -ECONOMICS -LITERATURE

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PERIOD

_PREHISTOIUC

_1400-1499

_1500-1599

_1800-1199

_1700-1799

~1800-1199 _1900.

~RCHITECTURE -EDUCATION -MILITARY -50CIAVHUMANITARIAN -ART

_COMMERCE

_COMMUNICATIONS

SPECIFIC DATES circa 1840

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

-ENGINEERING -MUSIC

_EXPLORATIONISETILEMENT _PHILOSOPHY

_INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

_INVENTION

BUILDER/ ARCHITECT

_THEATER

_TRANSPORTATION

_OTHER ISPECIFYI

The George Burgess House is significant historically and archi­tecturally to Howard County and the State of Maryland.

Historically, it is located on part of a tract of land called Mount Misery, which was acquired by George Burgess from Samuel Elli­cott in the 1840's, particularly described in the deed of partition of George Ellicott's Estate, noted in the Land Records of Anne Arun­del County, W.S.G. #21-178. Two plats note the property without a building, 1) Plat #2, noted as Lot # ~14 recorded May 1, 1840 in Liber #2, folio 76 in the Howard County Land Records, and 2) A plat noting this lot as #62 in Liber LJW 52-656.

Architecturally, the building features fine proportions and scale, as well as almost all its interior detail.

Both the north and south facades of the building are particularly fine, featuring central entrances, and vertically aligned second and third floor windows, with two gabled roof dormers and a two story high, shed roofed, open porch, running along the south facade.

The interior detail includes random width floors, original wood­work and five original mantlepieces throughout the house. First or ground floor wood work features unmitred flat pilasters and lintels, while second and third floor woodwork features flat pilasters with double square cut flutes, joined with square corners.

Architecturally and historically noteworthy, it is located within both the National Register Historic District of Ellicott City and the local history district.

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l]MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Interview with Mrs. Elsie Beall and Mrs. Hilda Ferguson at their home on Monday, January 28, 1980.

Land Records for Howard County

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ll!JGEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 1.12 acres

Please see Attachment 1, Tax Map 25

VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

Please see Howard County Land Records, Liber 428 Folio 458

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE Maryland COUNTY Howard

STATE COUNTY

mFORM PREPARED BY NAME I TITLE

Cleora Barnes Thompson,Archivist ORGANIZATION DATE

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3450 Cou~t House Drive CITY OR TOWN STATE

Ellicott City Marvl and

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 Supplement.

The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringe­ment of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 267-1438

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TITLE SEARCH OF THE GEORGE BURGESS HOUSE

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428-456

RHM 309-40 7

RHM 309-405

RHM 267-31

BMJR 187-209

WWLC 97-412

WWLC 87-473

179-523

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Audrey S. Emge

Elsie M. Beall

Mary Constance Colbert, Unm

Wilbur J. Beall & Elsie M. Beall

Julian Wheeler, widower

George L. Burgess

William Kerger

Hamilton Oldfield

Clara Burgess

William & Mary Osborne, et ux of Baltimore City

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Elsie M. Beall & Hilda Mane Ferguson 1. 81 a.

Audrey S. Emge

Elsie M. Beall & Wilbur J. Beall 1.81 a.

Mary Constance Colbert 1. 81 a.

Elsie M. Beall 1. 81 a.

Julian Wheeler 1.81 a. lot #62,: The Home­stead, first part P/O #3 P/O #4

Ella M. Burgess

William Kerger

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