Round About Hills

Historic house in Maryland, United States

United States historic place


Round About Hills
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Round About Hills, January 2011
39°16′24″N 77°01′52″W / 39.27333°N 77.03111°W / 39.27333; -77.03111
Area	3.2 acres (1.3 ha)
Built	1773 (1773)
Architectural style	Southern colonial
NRHP reference No.	08001072^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 20, 2008

Round About Hills or Peacefields is a historic slave plantation home located at Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland. An alternate address for this house is 14581 McClintock Drive, Glenwood, Maryland.^[2] It was built about 1773 on a 266-acre land patent and consists of a 1+1⁄2-story frame house with a stone end. Thomas Beale Dorsey inherited the property in 1794 then exchanged his interest in the plantation with Thomas Cook's stagecoach wayside town Cooksville.^[3]^[4]

The main block is three bays wide by one bay deep, with a gambrel roof and 1-story hip-roofed porch. It features a long screened porch with exposed rafter tails and an 1820 stone kitchen addition. Also on the property is a stone slave quarters outbuilding and a small frame outbuilding.^[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 11/17/08 THROUGH 11/21/08". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-02.
^ Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 42.
^ Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 252.
^ Kenneth M. Short (July 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Round About Hills" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.