Avondale (Westminster, Maryland) Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Avondale . January 1975 . 2016-01-01 . J. Richard Rivoire . Maryland Historical Trust.
  2. Book: Chidester , Robert C . A Historic Context for the Archaeology of Industrial Labor in the State of Maryland. VII. Piedmont. 2014-06-15. http://www.heritage.umd.edu/CHRSWeb/AssociatedProjects/chidesterreport/Chapter%20VII.htm.