Brooklandwood

Historic house in Maryland, United States

United States historic place


Brooklandwood
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Brooklandwood, December 2009
39°25′50″N 76°40′36″W / 39.43056°N 76.67667°W / 39.43056; -76.67667
Area	62 acres (25 ha)
Built	1790
Architectural style	Early Republic, Palladian
NRHP reference No.	72000567^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 11, 1972

Brooklandwood, or Brookland Wood, is a historic home located in Brooklandville, Baltimore County, Maryland. Its grounds became developed for the St. Paul's School for Boys.

The house is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay dwelling. The central block and two later wings are brick, painted white. The central-block section is original and built about 1790, with porches and Palladian-style windows forming a symmetrical, functional unit. It was owned by Captain John Cockey and then sold to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and several of his descendants: Carroll's daughter and son-in-law Mary and Richard Caton, parents of Emily Caton, who married John MacTavish, the British Consul to Baltimore in the early 1800s.^[2] It was also owned by Isaac E. Emerson, the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 1972.^[1]

Brooklandwood Historical Marker
Brooklandwood statuary

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 13 March 2009.
^ Robert Erskine Lewis: "Brooklandwood, Baltimore County" in: Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. XLIII, No. 4, December, 1948, pp. 280-293,
^ Mrs. Preston Parish (September 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Brooklandwood" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 1 March 2016.