T-59

San Domingo (Haphazard)

Architectural Survey File

This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-

chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National

Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation

such as photographs and maps.

Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site

architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at

the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft

versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a

thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research

project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment.

All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust.

Last Updated: 04-05-2004

Capsule Summary

Name: San Domingo/Haphazard

Construction Date: 1805

Town/Vicinity: St. Michaels

County: Talbot

Access: Private

Summary Description:

Survey No.: T-59

San Domingo/Haphazard is a 139.95 acre farm located on the western side of San Domingo

Creek. The main house is a two-and-one-half-story brick Federal Style building, built in

1805. Additions to both the east and west elevations have been made. Several historic

outbuildings are scattered across the property, most notable are the granary, dairy, and

comcrib. An historic family cemetery is also located on the property. Several modem

buildings have been added to the landscape; however, it must be noted that the property

continues to function as a working farm.

Continuation Sheet Page 1

Survey No.: T-59

Name: San Domingo/ Haphazard

County: Talbot

"San Domingo/Haphazard" was identified in 1968 by Michael Bourne for an Historic

American Buildings Survey inventory and has been surveyed twice by the Maryland Historical Trust;

first in 1977 by Michael Bourne and Merry Stinton, and again in 1988 by Paul Touart. No official

Determination of Eligibility was made, nor was any productive attempt made to nominate the

property to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1998, Rob Yallop, of New South Associates

Inc., Stone Mountain, GA, in conjunction with John Milner Associates, Inc., Alexandria, VA,

determined that the property is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. San

Domingo is a fine example of an early-nineteenth century Federal Style plantation house that retains

its integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association and is

recommended eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C. San

Domingo is also significant for its associative value pertaining to the Harrison Family, a; prominent

family in Talbot County history. For this reason it is also recommended eligible for the National

Register under Criterion B. Recommended National Register boundaries for the property include the

139.95 acres currently associated with the farm. Since 1988, ownership of the farm has passed to

Frances Johnston Hunteman, daughter of the previous owners. During the 1998 survey, several new

buildings and historic features were noted which had been previously unrecorded.

The plantation house has survived remarkably intact, both on the exterior and interior, and

retains its historic character and integrity. Important features of the house include the central hall

and staircase and the attached kitchen with a large arched opening providing access to an enclosed

porch. The surviving outbuildings are also important architecturally, as some possess distinctive

features, such as large protruding gable front roofs. Included in the collection is a frame dairy, a

hewn log corn crib and a bi-level frame granary (see previous survey forms for in-depth description

of the main house and historic outbuildings). The house and property underwent a series of

Continuation Sheet Page2

Survey No.: T-59 Name: San Domingo/

Haphazard County: Talbot

improvements in the mid-twentieth century. These improvements included the construction of the

gambrel roof wing and breezeway, the addition of the dormers and the construction of a garage.

Also, a small one-and-one-half story, frame caretaker house was moved to the property during this

period. More recent alterations to the property include the construction of a large steel-frame

equipment shed/apartment on the south side of the entrance lane, an in-ground swimming pool, a

small frame pool house, a frame two car garage, and the attachment of a steel frame wing to the

granary building.

Not recorded in any of the previous surveys is a family cemetery enclosed in a semi-circle of

trees located south of the main house. Interestingly, the headstones in the cemetery face west,

contrary to the popular Christian tradition of eastern facing graves. There are approximately 20

visible stones (several are possibly footstones) in the cemetery plot. The most recent interment is that

of Edna Johnston in 1988, mother of the current owner, Mrs. Frances Johnston Hunteman.

Surveyed by: Rob Yallop (New South Associates, Atlanta, GA) and Rachel Mancini (John Milner Associates, Inc., Alexandria, VA) John Milner Associates, Inc. Alexandria, VA 22312 August 4, 1998

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MARYLAND COMPREHENSIVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN DATA

HISTORIC CONTEXT

Geographic Organization: Eastern Shore

Chronological/Development Period(s): Rural Agrarian Intensification A.D. 1680-1815

Historic Period Theme(s): Agriculture; Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Community Planning

Resource Type:

Category: Building(s), Structure(s), Site

Historic Environment: Village

Historic Function(s) and Use(s): DOMESTIC/single dwelling/secondary structure; AGRICULTURE/SUBSISTENCE/storage/agricultural field; FUNERARY/cemetery

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Maryland Historical Trust State Historic Sites Inventory Form

1. Name (indicate preferred name}

historic "HAPHAZARD" "SAN DOMINGO"

and/or common SAN DOMINGO

2. Location

street & number E a 8 r 8 ; d e 0 f c b ii r " h N e c k B a a d ,

Railroad Avenue city, town st . Mich a p 1 s ~vicinity of

state Maryland

3. Classification Category __ district _x_ building(s) __ structure __ site __ object

Ownership __ public _x__ private _both Public Acquisition __ in process __ being considered ~not applicable

county

Status ~occupied

__ unoccupied __ work in progress Accessible ~yes: restricted __ yes: unrestricted __ no

Survey No. T-59

Magi No.

DOE _yes no

1 / s rn ; 1 e 8 0 n t h -- not for publication

congressional district

Talbot

Present Use ~ agriculture __ commercial __ educational _ entertainment __ government __ industrial __ military

First

__ museum __ park _x__ private residence __ religious __ scientific __ transportation __ other:

4. Owner of Property (give names and mailing addresses of ~ owners)

name Mrs Frank Tobnston

street & number San Domingo telephone no. : 7 4 5 - 5 7 O O

city, town St. ~·1ichaels state and zip code M , d _ary_._an 21663

5. Location of Legal Description

courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Talbot County Clerk of Court liber

street & number Talbot County Courthouse folio

city, town Easton ~~e Maryland 21601

6. Representation in Existing Historical surveys

title Maryland Historic Sites Inventory

date 1977 x __ federal __ state __ county __ local

.ository for survey records Maryland Historical Trust

city, town Annapolis state MD 2 140 I

7. Description

Condition ~excellent _good _fair

Check one _ deteriorated _ unaltered _ ruins ~ altered _unexposed

Check one ~ original site _moved date of move

Survey No. T-59

Prepare both a summary paragraph and a general description of the resource and its various elements as it exists today.

San Domingo, a 133.20-acre farm, is bounded on the east by San Domingo Creek and on the west by Church Neck Road in the vicinity of St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland. Situated at the end of a long tree-lined farm lane is the house and a group of significant outbuildings. The house faces south with the principal gable oriented on an east/west axis.

Built around 1805, the two-and-a-half story, center hall brick house is supported by a raised foundation and covered by a steeply pitched wood shingle roof. The south wall is laid in Flemish bond, whereas the balance of the main house was erected in six-course common bond. Attached to the east gable end is an one-and-a-half story brick kitchen that is contemporary with the main house. Extending from the west end is an one-and-a-half story gambrel-roofed brick wing attached during the early 1950s. Slightly later, a pyramidal roofed brick pool house was erected west of the gambrel-roofed wing and joined to the main house by a single brick wall that defined a long passage. Northeast of the house is an one-and-a-half story frame garage. standing a distance from the house are noteworthy nineteenth-century outbuildings that include a dairy, a corn crib, and an old bi-level frame granary that has been converted into a stable. Also standing on the farm is a small one-and-a-half story frame house that was moved to the property for a caretaker's residence. More recent buildings include a lona board-and-batten implement shed and a board-and-batten granary. Situa-. between the house and outbuildings is an in-ground pool.

The south (principal) elevation of the main house is a symmetrical five-bay elevation with a center entrance and flanking nine-over-six sash windows. The raised six-panel door is topped by a four-light transom, and the door reveals are paneled. Framing the door is a Colonial Revival broken pediment surround with fluted pilasters that was added during the mid 1940s. The flanking nine-over-six sash windows retain ovolo-molded backhand surrounds and are surmounted by flared jack arches. Piercing the foundation wall are small window openings. The second floor is lighted by five evenly spaced six-over-six sash windows which also retain ovolo-molded surrounds. Trimming the base of the roof is a boxed cornice fitted with period bed and crown moldings. The roof is marked by five six-over­six sash dormers that were added when renovations were started on the house after 1943.

The east and west ends are partially covered by the one-and-a-half story brick wings, but the second floor walls remain largely exposed with six-over-six sash windows, and small two-over-two sash lights illuminate the attic on either side of the interior end brick chimneys. The stacks are finished with simple caps, and the flush gable ends are fitted with plain barge boards.

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SAN DOMINGO DESCRIPTION (continued)

The story-and-a-half brick kitchen is noteworthy for its unusual arched opening that provides access to a small recessed alcove incorporated under the kitchen roof. Stretching across the full front of the kitchen is a twentieth­century glassed-in porch. Contained within the recessed alcove is an early nineteenth-century door opening that leads to the main block, whereas a later replacement door opens into the kitchen. Six-over-six sash windows light the kitchen, and a six-over-six sash dormer pierces the steeply pitched wood shingle roof. Rising through the gable end is a tall, interior brick chimney stack with six-over-six sash windows lighting the first floor and smaller four­over-two sash windows illuminating the upper floor. The gable end is flush. The north kitchen wall includes a rear door and a window.

The west end of the main block is largely covered by the story-and-a­half gambrel-roofed, two-bay, brick wing. Nine-over-six sash windows light the first floor, while six-over-six sash dormers mark the roof slope.

The north (rear) elevation of the main house is a three-bay facade with a center entrance and flanking nine-over-six sash windows. The door is a mid­nineteenth-century replacement, but the windows retain ovolo-molded backband surrounds and jack arches. The second floor is pierced by three six-over-six sash windows. The center window has been lowered approximately a foot below the arch. The space was filled with a wooden panel.

The interior of the main house has survived unaltered for the most part with ninety-five percent of its Federal style woodwork intact. The center hall is distinguished by an open stringer stair that rises four flights to the third floor. P1. slender turned newel post and narrow, rectangular balusters support a simply molded handrail that curves in a swan-neck arch before reaching the landing posts. An adjacent half-rail imbedded in the plaster wall mirrors the stair railing. In addition the step ends are decorated by an s-curved design. Both the handrail profile and the stepend design parallel the woodwork at the Cannonball House in St. Michaels. The triangular space below is divided into raised panels. One raised panel near the foot of the stair was fitted with hinges and a door pull to allow access into the small space. A raised-panel door allows access to the cellar stair. The first floor hall space is also fitted with early nineteenth-century chair rail, baseboards, and cavetto-molded backband surrounds. The molded surrounds frame raised six-panel doors. In addition the door reveals are finished with flat panels.

The east door opens into the dining room which is distinguished by intact period woodwork. A straightforward Federal style mantel highlights the hearth, and stretching around the perimeter of the room is original chair rail and baseboards. A small raised two-panel door opens into a chimney breast closet on the north side. A six-panel door is located south of the hearth and provides access to the recessed kitchen alcove.

The west room, or parlor, is slightly more elaborate with a fancier Federal style mantel. Enriched pilasters of acanthus leaf motifs over fluted feet protrude in a subtle s-curve. The frieze is embellished with decorative rows of gougework and bed moldings under the mantel shelf. The perimeter of

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the room is fitted with period chair rail, baseboards, and the window reveals are paneled also.

The second floor is divided in a similar fashion with a room to each side of a center hall. The space at the head of the stair has been partitioned for a bathroom.

The east and west bedrooms are similarly finished with Federal style mantels, chair rail, and beaded edge baseboards. The six-panel doors and the sash windows are framed by ovolo-molded backband surrounds. The mantel in each room follows along the same format with a molded hearth surround, plain frieze blocks, and a stepped shelf.

The attic was finished during the 1940s reworking of the house. A combination of plastered partitions and knotty pine paneled walls divides the space into two bedrooms which open from a center hall.

Standing on the property are three significant nineteenth-century outbuildings, a dairy, a hewn log corn crib, and a bi-level frame granary. The dairy is located southwest of the house and is supported by a new concrete foundation. The weatherboard sheathed frame structure is covered by a large, overhanging gable-front roof. The gable ends are sheathed with plain weatherboards and the roof is covered with asphalt shingles. Centered in the south wall is a beaded board door, and piercing the other three sides are boarded over lattice openings. The interior of the dairy is plastered with sawn lath fastened with cut-nails. More recent to the dairy is a small gable roofed enclosure on the north side that houses a pump.

The corn crib stands a short distance west of the dairy, however its current location is not its original site. The corn crib formerly stood at the west end of the wagon shed where the twentieth-century granary was erected. Supported by large, round concrete piers, the rectangular hewn log crib is covered by a large gable-front roof with wide extended eaves on each side. The front and rear gable ends are sheathed with plain weatherboards, while the roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The north end is fitted with a board door hung on long strap hinges. Plain corner boards cover the corners of the log structure. On each lateral side small openings have been cut through for loading access. Exposed inside the crib are pairs of long downbraces that stabilize each side of the crib. Wooden pins were driven through the braces and each adjoining log. Wooden pins and pairs of mature cut-nails fasten each peak joint of the common rafter roof system which rests on a flat false plate.

The third nineteenth-century outbuilding, a bi-level mortise-and-tenon frame granary that has been enlarged and converted to a stable is located along the farm lane. The center core of the board-and-batten structure comprises the original granary building, while the side sheds were attached to accomodate more horse stalls. A concrete block foundation currently supports the structure, and a layer of asphalt shingles covers the gable-front roof. The gable ends are flush, and the box cornices on each side have open soffits. Inside, the mortise-and-tenon frame structure has been altered with the removal of the side wall studs. Empty pockets for the studs remain in the

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sections of the girts which remain in place. When the granary was converted to a stable a center aisle was created with stalls to each side.

The other buildings on the property include a story-and-a-half frame house that was moved to the farm. The two-bay by one-room deep structure is covered with asbestos shingles and sheathed by a steeply pitched asphalt shingle roof. Six-over-six sash dormers light the second floor. A long frame wagon and implement shed stands on the south side of the entrance lane along with a board-and-batten frame granary. Standing next to the main house is a story-and-a-half frame garage built during the middle years of the twentieth century.

8. Significance Survey No. T-59

Period __ prehistoric _ 1400-1499

1500-1599 - 1600-1699

- 1700-1799 ~ 1800-1899 _1900-

Specific dates

Areas of Significance-Check and justify below __ archeology-prehistoric __ community planning __ landscape architecture __ religion __ archeology-historic __ conservation __ law __ science __1L_ agriculture __ economics __ literature __ sculpture _x__ architecture __ education __ military __ social/ __ art __ engineering __ music humanitarian __ commerce __ exploration/settlement __ philosophy __ theater __ communications __ industry __ politics/government -- transportation

__ invention __ other (specify)

Builder/ Architect

check: Applicable Criteria: and/or

A B xC D

Applicable Exception: A B C D E F G

Level of Significance: national state x local

Prepare both a summary paragraph of significance and a general statement of history and support.

Architecturally, San Domingo stands out in Talbot County for several strong reasons. The two-and-a-half story, five-bay Flemish and common bond brick dwelling is one of a few center hall Federal style plantation houses that has survived with ninety-five percent of its superior early nineteenth-century finishes. The delicate, four-flight Federal stair resembles the stair at the Cannonball House in St. Michaels, a contemporary side hall/double-pile dwelling probably finished by the same craftsman. The stair at San Domingo differs with its swan-neck curved handrail. Superior woodwork found throughout the house includes paneled door and window reveals, raised six-panel doors, elaborate period mantels as well as original chair rail and baseboards. Unusual to the story-and­,_ half brick kitchen is a large arched opening that provides access to a recessed .::tlcove incorporated under the roof.

Not only is the brick house an important example of its type, but remaining on the farm are three rare outbuildings, a frame dairy, a hewn log corn crib, and a bi-level frame granary, all dating to the early nineteenth century. The dairy and the corn crib are especially distinctive structures with their large over-jetted gable-front· roofs. The hewn log crib is one of the last structures of its type surviving in Talbot County.

Historically, San Domingo represents the accumulated wealth and position of the Harrison family during the prosperous years surrounding the turn of the nineteenth century, and it is one of key plantation houses located on Church Neck west of St. Michaels. Harrison family occupation in this vicinity dates as early as the 1660s and continued until the early twentieth century. Mary Harrison, who had married her third cousin, Joseph Harrison, inherited the land from her father around 1801, and the couple engaged in an elaborate building program that financed the construction of the extant dwelling and outbuildings. With the proximity of the extensive Harrison lands to st. Michaels, many members of the family were long assoiciated with the commercial and industrial interests of the town.

9. Major Bibliographical References Survey No. T-S 9

1 O. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property _________ _

Quadrangle name _______ _ Quadrangle scale _______ _

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Verbal boundary description and justification

List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries

state code county code

state code county code

11. Form Prepared By

name/title Paul Touart Architectural Historian

organization Private Consultant date I I 2 6 I 8 8

street & number P. 0. Box 5 telephone ( 3 0 I ) 6 5 I - l 0 9 4

city or town Westover state MD 2 18 7 I

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 Shaw House 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 269-2438

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0NAME HISTORIC

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San Dorrii!!JI?

IJLOCATION STREET & NUMBER

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St. Michaels _ v1c1N1TY0F First STATE

Marv land DcLAss1F1 CATION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS _DISTRICT

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_STRUCTURE

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PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE _IN PROCESS

_BEING CONSIDERED

DOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME

Frank Johnston STREET & NUMBER

San Domingo CITY. TOWN

St. Michaels

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_YES UNRESTRICTED

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Washington Street CITY. TOWN

Ea§ton l!REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS

TITLE

DATE

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Talbot

PRESENT USE

~GRICULTURE _MUSEUM

_COMMERCIAL __ PA~K

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_MOVED DATE __ _

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

San Domingo is an 18th century brick structure with an attached brick kitchen. The main house is five bays long by two bays deep, and two storys high. The south facade has a central door flanked by two 9/6 sash windows on either side on the first floor, five 6/6 sash windows on the second floor, and five 6/6 dormers across the gable roof. This side is laid in Flemish bond, the rest of the house and kitchen are laid in 6:1 common bond. The north side has a door with a single 9/6 sash window on either side on the first floor, a 6/6 sash window at the stair landing level, and two 6/6 sash windows on the second floor. The attic has two 6/6 sash dormers. The east gable end has two 6/6 sash windows on the second floor, and each gable has two 2/2 sash windows in the attic. There are jack arches over the 6/6 and 9/6 windows.

The floor plan of the main house consists of a central stair hall with a room to either side. Each room is heated by an interior end chimney.

The kitchen to the east is entered through a porch which is recessed along the southern 2/3 of that side. A door from the porch leads into the kitchen, and an arch opens up most of the exterior porch wall. There is a south window in the leg of the kitchen that closes in the east end of the porch. A modern glassed­in porch protects this arrangement. The one story kitchen has a chimney on the east, with a 6/6 sash window on either side and two 4/2 sash windows above. The north wall contains a door and win­dow. There is a 6/6 sash dormer window on either side of the roof.

The outbuildings on the property include a dairy and an early corn crib with thick horizontal plank walls and a deep roof overhang.

There are many modern additions to the original house.

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY

II SIGNIFICANCE

?ERIOD

_PREHISTORIC

_1400-1499

_1500-1599

_1600-1699

_1700-1799

DS00-1899

_1900-

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

---ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING

---ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION

---AGRICULTURE _ECONOMICS

~RCHITECTURE _EDUCATION

---ART _ENGINEERING

-COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT

-COMMUNICATIONS _INDUSTRY

_INVENTION

_LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

_LAW

_LITERATURE

_MILITARY

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_PHILOSOPHY

_POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

SPECIFIC DATES BUILDER/ARCHITECT

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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_RELIGION

_SCIENCE

_SCULPTURE

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_THEATER

_TRANSPORTATION

_QTHER (SPECIFY)

San Domingo is one of the best preserved Federal farmhouses in

the Saint Michaels ·area. Its kitchen with arched porch is a unique

survivor in the county. In the farm yard are two very good examples

of agricultural buildings, i.e. corn crib and dairy. In style, San

Domingo is similar to several of the best houses in St. Michaels and

was undoubtedly built by the same craftsmen.

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY

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IJMAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES H.C. Forman, Tidewater Maryland Architecture and Gardens, Architecturr

Book Publishing Co., Inc., N.Y., 1956, p. 7I7 74: iii. p. 29, 67.

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET I~ NECESS~Y

II!JGEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY--------

VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

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

STATE COUNTY

STATE COUNTY

mFORM PREPARED BY NAME I TITLE

Michael Bourne, Architectural Consultant, & Merry Stinson ORGANIZATION DATE

Maryland Historical Trust April, 1977 STREET & NUMBER TELEPHONE

Shaw House, 21 State Circle CITY OR TOWN STATE

Annapolis Maryland 21401

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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