Avondale (Westminster, Maryland)
Avondale is a historic home located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. It is a Georgian style, 2+1⁄2-story brick house, measuring approximately 45 feet long by 18+1⁄2 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.
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.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ J. Richard Rivoire (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Avondale" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- ^ Chidester, Robert C. "VII. Piedmont". A Historic Context for the Archaeology of Industrial Labor in the State of Maryland. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
External links
- Avondale, Carroll County, including photo in 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust
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