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Tulip Hill
Tulip Hill is located in Maryland
Tulip Hill
Nearest cityGalesville, Maryland
Built1755
ArchitectDeavour,John
Architectural styleGeorgian, Other
NRHP reference No.70000261
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 15, 1970[1]
Designated NHLApril 15, 1970[2]

Tulip Hill is a plantation house that was built between 1755 and 1756 one mile from Galesville in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland. When Tulip Hill was built, Maryland was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The house sits atop a ridge and overlooks the West River. The house was built by Samuel Galloway for his wife, Ann (Chew) Galloway. They married in 1742.[3]

The land

The land for Tulip Hill originally was patented to Richard Talbot in 1659 as "Poplar Knowl." The house sits on a ridge from which terraces paralleling the river lead down to the meadow.[3]

The house

According to an entry in the builder's account book, all of the bricks used to build the house were made on the site.[3] Between 1787 and 1790, the Georgian style plantation house was expanded with end pavilions to become a five-part house. The site retains its tree-lined entrance lane and terraced garden [4]. The curious gambrel or double-hipped roof is set off by a pediment with a bull's-eye window and dormers on the rear. A well defined cornice and a small white pedimented porch with four columns shading the front door add dignity to the facade. The central block is two stories high and 52 feet (16 m) wide by 42 feet (13 m) deep. Windows are nine-over-nine sashes, with the second floor windows somehwat smaller than the first. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. Two unusual fire places brick chimneys, with multiple flues, project through either end of the central portion of the house and tower over the one story wings.[3] The two-story end pavilions and one story hyphens have brickwork in running bond.[5]

A spacious hall runs the depth of the house with a large double arch dividing it equally. The front half has a chair rail and corner cupboard while the other half contains the staircase.[3] The hall, while in the middle of the house, is not centered, being offset to the right and lit by the window to the right of the entrance door. The hall narrows at the stair hall, which contains an unusually fine curved walnut staircase. To the right of the hall, in front, is a small reception room with a larger dining room behind, connected by a narrow hall with a service stair. On the left side of the hall are two paneled drawing rooms. The second floor is similarly arranged, except that a small chamber occupies the end of the hall opposite the stairs. The two large eastern bedrooms are paneled.[5]

The west wing contained a kitchen, while the east wing contained plantation offices.

History

Samuel Galloway bought Poplar Knowle in 1755, renaming it "Tulip Hill" after a grove of tulip poplars. The central portion of the house was built in 1755-56, supervised by John Devour. The house resembles "Stenton" in Germantown, Pennsylvania, built by Galloway's friend James Logan. Samuel's son John enlarged the house in 1787-90 by adding the end wings, hyphens and portico. The house remained in the Galloway family until 1866.[5]

In 1771, a thirty-nine-year old George Washington "dined and supped" at Tulip Hill twice.[3]

One of the young Galloway children is reputed to have ridden his horse up the central staircase.[3]

Inheritance

In 1786, Samual Galloway died and left Tulip Hill to his son, John Galloway. Upon John's death, the house passed to his only child, Mary (Galloway) Maxey. Her husband was Virgil Maxey [6], the Minister to Belgium under President Martin Van Buren. Mary Maxey left Tulip Hill to her only daughter, Ann Sarah Hughes. In 1886, Hughes sold the house to Henry M. Murray. Murray's wife, Mary H. (Morris) Murray, was a descendent of the builder of the house. The Murrays lived in Tulip Hill for thirty years before selling it to A. du Pont Parker, of Denver, Colorado. Ultimately the house passed on to Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Flather of Washington, DC, and it was the Flathers who spent a great deal of time and money restoring Tulip Hill and the surrounding grounds to the former level of magnificence.[3] The home is still privately owned.

See also

the house is at this time for sale

References and notes

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ^ "Tulip Hill". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Swann, Colonial and Historic Homes of Maryland, p. 66
  4. ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". National Register of Historic Places: Properties in Anne Arundel County. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-08.
  5. ^ a b c Heintzelman, Patricia (July 30, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Tulip Hill" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
  6. ^ VIRGIL MAXEY (or Maxcy) - born 1785, died 1844 — Born in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, May 5, 1785. Son of Levi Maxcy and Ruth (Newell) Maxcy; married to Mary Galloway of Maryland. Lawyer; member of Maryland state executive council, 1815; member of Maryland State House of Delegates; member of Maryland State Senate; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1837-42. Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon burst on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Prince Georges County, Maryland, February 28, 1844. Originally entombed at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC; reinterment at a private or family graveyard, Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Sources

  • Swann Jr., Don (1975). Colonial and Historic Homes of Maryland. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 212. ISBN 0-8018-1727-7.
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