PART II: Chapter 16 Historic Sites and Proposed Historic Sites

62-006 NR Montpelier and Cemetery9650 Muirkirk Road, Laurel (M-NCPPC)• c. 1783, five-part Georgian mansion with 2 ½-storyhip-roof center block and 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 and Roosevelt; outstanding example of formalGeorgian architecture; sole surviving 18th-centurysummer house in Maryland62-008 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 and the original supply store; foundedby Ellicott family and 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, andnumerous 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• Stands on tract of “Black Walnut Levels,” Built for MarySnowden Herbert, daughter of Thomas Snowden ofMontpelier• Criteria 1c, 1d, 2eStaff Draft Preliminary Historic Sites and Districts Plan 107