| 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.