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B-4 Homewood House, (Carroll Mansion, Merryman's Lot) Architectural Survey File This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse- chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation such as photographs and maps. Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment. All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust. Last Updated: 03-10-2011 ..' :· ( Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT:OF THE INTERIOR STATE" : (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Maryland COUNTY : NATIONAL REGISTER OF HiSTORIC PLACES Baltimore City INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER DATE (Type all entries ,- co'inplete applicable sections) ····. .::" COMM ON : Homewood A .. DIOR HISTORI C: I Homewood House, Carroll Mansion (Merryman' s Lott) f2: ~lii;>CAT!O~N.:.· _____;~_..:.:. ·'----" -' _.t:."'~: _~---------___;;................,__......... ___-'---"1 Baltimore ; TATE l CODE lcouNTV: ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP STATUS TO THE PUBLIC z f. Yes: 0 Di s trict iJ Bui ldin9 0 Public Public Acquisi tion: ~ Occupied 0 Restricted 0 Site 0 Structure kl Privote 0 In Process 0 Unoccupied ti Unrestricted 0 Object 0 Both 0 Being Cons idered 0 Preaervotion work 0 t- In progress 0 No u PRESENT us E (Check One or More '"' Approptlelo) 0 Agriculturol 0 Government 0 Pork 0 Tronsportotion 0 Comments 0 Commercial 0 lndustriol 0 Private Residence 0 Other (Speclly) Educotional 0 Militory 0 Re ligious I~ Entertainment 0 Museum 0 Scientific ("· ...... ;.i , ;~OWNE~ PR()PERTY f .. ·.: •·.. r z F;4' ·OF .- · .. :. OWNER'S NAME: :s:: .. Ill ~ L--=B~o~a=r~d~o~f~T~r~u=s=t..:::..:.e=e=s~, -.:::'rh.:::e:.......::J~o=hn==s=--=H=o~p~k=i=·n=s=---U=n==iv..:.....:e=r=s=i~t~y~~~~~~~~~~~~~-J~ ~ w STREET ANO NUMBER: '<I-' Ill w ~-=.:.No.:..:..rth.::.:._C~h=a=r~l~e~s=--=a~n~d::.........::3~4~th=~· s=-=t=re~e=t=s=------r::-::c-:-::-::-----------,--:-:-:-::--l[ C IT Y OR TOWN: STATE: COOE Baltimore Marv land 24 l-·::6-,.-',,L-·o-c .AffOFOi= ~ i·E.~);";~-6.flc.R~PTtb!'l .; · .,.· · c ouRTH.ousE. REGISTRY OF OEE o s-:' ET<;: l °' 0 Hall of Records Commission L._111J....,. c0 L.....:.::::..:=--=..::.....::~=-=:..::::=-=-=====.::..==.:.:=----'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~i,ir··~1 ~ STREET ANO NUMBER: , . .t"l'I-'· < i-::~_.:::.:::.::::::....~..::::::.:::..::::::.;z.::....~~~J_.::::;'..=.=~=--~~~~-.-~--~~~~St. John ts Colleqe CaJnpus. Colleqe Avenue ~~~~~..,-~~-t~ 5~ ·· CITY OR TOWN: STATE COOE Cl> Annapolis Marv land 24 I ::···· :· ... ,., ::"· ./! .:±;'; . ! T I TL. E OF SURVEY : zfTl ; Historic American Buildings Survey lJ ..., < OATE OF SURVEY: 1964 lXl Federal )(Xl Stole i:::; County Xii Local 0 I--~~~~~-~-=-..:.....::.~-~~~~~-==-~~~~~;__~~~ z ~ bEPOSI TORY FOR SURVEY RECOROS: c z .t ~ Ill V> Library of Congress c STREET . ..,ND NUMBER: ll"' V> m 0z CITY OR TOWN : ,- /STATE: COOE -< 0 District of r!.&r.,::!,lJ.l!l·--~'-· ~ "-"~L-.L..L1..L..... 1 -J ,. ; fTl ,r--~ .._ ( /) I . c S-Y • (Checlt One) I ~ E•cellenl 0 Good " 0 Foir 0 Deterioroted 0 Ruins 0 Unupoaed CONDITION (Cheek on!) l (Check One) 0 Altered Ga Unoltered 0 Moved tj Origlnol Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT ANO ORIGI NAL (II known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE Homewood is designed as a five-part architectural composition. The central section is one-and-a-half stories over a raised basement. The flanking pavilions and connecting hyphens are one story in height. The house is 1constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond, with stone trim. · The central 1section is five-bays wide and has a finely scaled tetrastyle portico on both the north and south front. The south portico is pedimented and has plaster work bas relief swag and garland decoration in the tympanum. It is approacheB by a f light of stone steps and has marble tile flooring. The eight-panel south entrance door has a se.nicircular glazed transom above it. On either side are engaged pilasters which carry a fu~l entablature. Flanking the >orway are narrow windows with square s1:one panels above them. The house l nas a stone belt course and th~ tall, six-over-six PC!Jle, windows with stone sills and stone lintels with keystones. Above the windows are rectangular stone decorative panels, cut out on their lower edge to suggest consoles. The house carries a hipped ~'of above a finely detailed modillion cornice. m There are four interior symmetrically spaced chimneys and on each elevation two unusual arched dormer windows with Gothic sas·h. m The one-story hyphens have :three bays on the south front and two bays on .the .z: north. The central entrance bay on the south has a glazed semicircular transom and the two flanking bays are small palladian windows. The end pavilions are two bays wide .:md three bays deep with a hipped roof and a .... · ~ entral chimney. ::::0 I c The floor plan of the central section has a wide central hall on the south n s ide that is separated from the narrow cross hall by a wide ·doorway with -f a glazed arched transom and .side lights. Beyond the cross hall the central hall continues to the north entrance but is narrower. To the west are cupboards and to the east a narrow enclosed stair to the four room garret. 0 z The intersection of the cent:cal. halls apd th~ cross hall has a superb groin vaulted ceiling with delicat1~ plaster work ribs .and rosettes at their intersection. The halls sepr:i.rate the four principal rooms of the house. Flanking the south hall are tw~ . drawing rooms one of them with a splendid tray ceiling. Flanking the north hall are the dining room anq the pr~ncipal bedroom. Tne west wing contains the kitchen and service .. ro9m1=>, ..!;l:l~ g~St wing contains the nursery, the so"calied "state room" and a smaller chamber whose use is unknown. !J.'he interior trim of Homewood is of exception.ally high quality. The main rooms and halls have dado, chair rail, and architraves, and mantels which display the wood carvers art at its best in a profusion of restrained Adam style reeding, swags, foliag i~, and fretwork. -·· Form 10-3000 : ATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ( , T E (July 1969) NATIONAL ~RIC SERVICE M,.rvland NATIONAL R·EGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY INVENTORY • NOMINATION FORM Baltimore Citv FOR NPS USE ONLY E N TRY NUMBER I DATE (Continuation Sheet) Homewood I (Number all entrfee) 8. Signif icance Continued , page 1 Homewood and one hundred twenty acres at public auction in t he Bal timore Exchange. Samuel Wyman , a successful Baltimore merchant and founder of Tiffany , Wyman & Company, bought the property for $25 , 150. Wyman lived in Homewood with his famil y until "1865 . l~~.rnue l Wyman ' s son, William Wyman, commissioned Richard Upjohn to bui ld an • alianate house, Homewood Villa, on the Homewood t r act (1851- 1853) . The J ohns Hopkins University demolished this house in 1954. When Samuel Wyman died the Homewood estate was divided between hi s two sons in 1894. From 1897 to 1902 Homewood housed the Country School for Boys (now Gilman School) . The ingenuity and financial acumen aided by Wil liam Keyser (1835-1904) , a wealthy Baltimore merchant, made it possible to reassemb1e t he Homewood tract .in 1902, when it was offered to the Johns Hopkins Uni versi"ty as the site for a lnew campus . .' Th e architects for t he first University construction repeated the t raditional I, Federal motif of Homewood mansion in the design of tl'le buildings on the surrounding campus . In 1916 Homewood mansion became ?the University Facul ty Club and from 1932 until 1936 i t was a house museum restored through. the aid' of Mr. and Mrs . Francis P. .1Garvan. Since 1936 the Univers~ty has used Homewood for administrative offices . IIn 1969, under the supervi sion ~f Orin M. Bull ock, . Jr., F .A. I . A., the mor tar in the masonry at Homewooa was replaced and pointed. ( ·. B~ ~ :}. PERIOD ( Check One or Mew• ea Approprlale) 20th Century O Pre-Columbion : 0 16th Century 0 18th Century 0 O 15th Century 0 17th Century (ii 19th Century ot Appropriate) ARIEAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One More •• 0 Urbon Plonni ng Abor l9inal 0 Educotian 0 Pol itical Other (Spec ify) 0 Prehl at0<lc O E~ginHring 0 Religion/ Phi- 0 0 Historic 0 Industry losophy 0 Agriculture 0 Invention 0 Science ra Architecture 0 londscope 0 Sculpture 0 Art Archi tecture 0 Socio l/Humon· 0 Commerc• 0 llteroture i torion 0 C ommunlcotlona O toHlitory 0 Theoler 0 Conservation 0 Mus ic 0 Trons portotion STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Homewood was built from 1801 to 1803 in Baltimore, Maryland by Charles Carroll, Jr. This extravagant son of the Signer of the Declaration of Independence spent $40,000' reluctantly provided by his father, .to build one ~f the most sophisticated country houses of the Federal Period. Homewood % !Was designed as a five-part composition, the main central section is one 0 and one-half stories; the flanking pavilions and the low hyphens that connec· ~hem to the central section are one story.