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
_NO
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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Dist. 2·
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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_RE UGI ON
--5CIENCE
-SCULPTURE .
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
Liber-Folio
428-458
428-456
RHM 309-40 7
RHM 309-405
RHM 267-31
BMJR 187-209
WWLC 97-412
WWLC 87-473
179-523
38-16 4
Gran tor
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
Grantee
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
Samuel Burgess George & William Several lots - Lot #62
Samuel F. Burgess for $700 Plat of lands of George Burgess
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