Temora (Ellicott City, Maryland) Explained

Temora
Location:4252 Columbia Rd., Ellicott City, Maryland
Coordinates:39.2539°N -76.8244°W
Architect:Starkwether, Nathan Gibson
Architecture:Tuscan Victorian
Added:April 30, 1976
Refnum:76001003

Temora, is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland. It is a T-shaped, two-story and cupola, Tuscan-style Victorian house of stuccoed tongue-and-groove boards. The house was built in 1857 after a design prepared by Norris G. Starkweather, a little-known but accomplished architect from Oxford, England, who also designed the First Presbyterian Church and Manse at West Madison Street and Park Avenue in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, with his later more famous assistant - Edmund G. Lind.[1] The house was built for Dr. Arthur Pue Jr. on land given from his grandmother Mary Dorsey Pue of Belmont Estate.[2] [3] The name of the estate Temora comes from the poems of Ossian[4]

Laura Hanna and Mrs John Breckinridge lived in the property afterward. County Councilman and representative William S. Hanna was also raised at Temora[5]

A portion of the estate served as a farm with a hay field. In 1980, developer Alan Borg purchased the property, performing a minor restoration. In 1984 Borg held a "Decorator's Showhouse" event with rooms redecorated for free by various decorators retaining some of the original period materials combined with outside furnishings and materials.[6] In 1985, Borg attempted to convert the house into a 15-room inn and restaurant, but failed to approval for the increased activity on the lot in a residential neighborhood.[7] The land has been subdivided with a LDS Church built in the former pasture.[8]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Temora . January 1975. 2016-01-01 . Frances Wellford Mason. Maryland Historical Trust.
  2. News: The Times (Elkridge). 31 March 1965. Loveley Historic Howard County Homes.
  3. Book: Images of America Howard County. Howard County Historical Society. 79.
  4. Book: Stein . Charles Francis . Origin and History of Howard County Maryland . 1972 . Charles Francis Stein, Jr. . 265 . First . English.
  5. News: The Baltimore Sun. W.S. Hanna, lawmaker and real estate broker. 1 December 1994. DeWitt Bliss.
  6. News: The Baltimore Sun. 200-year-old estate renovated. 19 September 1984.
  7. News: The Baltimore Sun. Howard board rejects plans for Temora. Phillip Davis. 8 February 1985.
  8. Book: Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. 25. James A. Clark Jr..