PART II: Chapter 16 Historic Sites and Proposed Historic Sites

62-006 NR Montpelier <strong>and</strong> Cemetery9650 Muirkirk Road, Laurel (M-NCPPC)• c. 1783, five-part Georgian mansion with 2 ½-storyhip-roof center block <strong>and</strong> semi-octagonal wings; elegantinterior detail; domed-roof summer house on thegrounds• Built for Major Thomas Snowden; 20th-century home ofBreckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State underWilson <strong>and</strong> Roosevelt; outst<strong>and</strong>ing example of formalGeorgian architecture; sole surviving 18th-centurysummer house in Maryl<strong>and</strong>62-008 Muirkirk Furnace Site7011 Muirkirk Road, Beltsville• 1847 (established) site of iron furnace now hidden by amodern industrial complex; one kiln remains• During peak years produced 7000 tons of pig iron/year;the furnace property covered 10 acres, including housesfor the workmen <strong>and</strong> the original supply store; foundedby Ellicott family <strong>and</strong> operated by Coffin family until1920• Criteria 1a, 1c, 1d62-010 Briarley Academy (Old Hotel)11777 Old Baltimore Pike, Beltsville• c. 1860s, 1911, Multipart frame structure whichincludes the original 19th-century dwelling, a twostoryhip-roof building with a five-bay main facade, <strong>and</strong>numerous additions• Originally a farmhouse built by George Humes,converted into a resort by Benjamin B. Bradford in1911; bought in 1929 by the Montague family &leased to Cpt. Sydney Lodge who established a militaryacademy there• Criteria 1d, 2e62-013 Walnut GrangeBuilding 209, Powder Mill Road, Beltsville• 1805, two-story T-shaped brick house, formerly ofunusual butterfly shape; west wing destroyed in 1850sbut semicircular bays of center section survive• St<strong>and</strong>s on tract of “Black Walnut Levels,” Built for MarySnowden Herbert, daughter of Thomas Snowden ofMontpelier• Criteria 1c, 1d, 2eStaff Draft Preliminary <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Sites</strong> <strong>and</strong> Districts Plan 107