Avondale | |
Location: | 501 Stone Chapel Road, Westminster, Maryland |
Coordinates: | 39.5592°N -77.0303°W |
Builder: | Masters, Legh |
Architecture: | Georgian |
Added: | October 10, 1975 |
Refnum: | 75000877 |
Avondale is a historic home located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. It is a Georgian style, -story brick house, measuring approximately 45 feet long by feet deep, built about 1796. The house has a two-story wing measuring approximately 49 feet long by 13 feet deep. It features a Palladian window centered on the pavilion directly over the entrance door.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
An iron foundry was built in the community of Avondale in 1765 by Leigh Master, a settler from New Hall, Lancashire, England, who operated it using slave labor.[2]