HO-22 Doughoregan Manor (Charles Carroll III of Carrollton House)

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.

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Last Updated: 02-07-2013 HO-22 THEME: WAR TOR INDEPENDENCE

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SI ITt: 3 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Maryland COUNTY' NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Howard INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY

ENTRY NUMOCR OATE (Type all entries — complete applicable sections) 1. NAME COMMON: Doughoregan Manor (Charles Carroll (III) of Carrollton House) ANDOR HISTORIC: Doughoregan Manor 2. LOCATION STRLET AND NUMBERS miles west of Ellicott City, via Federick Road (State 144) and one mile south on Manor Lane CITY OR TOWN: Ellicott City STATE CODE COUNTY: CODE Maryland Howard |3. CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP STATUS (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC

District Building Public Public Acquisition: Occupied Yes: Site Structure Private In Process Unoccupied Restricted Unrestricted Object Both Being Considered Preservation work in progress

PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

Agricultural Government Pork Transportation Comments Commerciol Industrial Private Residence Other (Specify) Educational Mi litory Religious Entertainment Muse urn Scientific

4. OWNER OF PROPERTY Oi'/NLR'S N Af-IE:

Mrs, Philip At Carroll STREET AND NUMBER: _ The Manor CITY OR TOWN: ST ATE: CODE Ellicott City 21043 Maryland 5. LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS. ETC: Howard County Courthouse STREET AND NUMBER:

CITY OR TOWN: STATE i CODE

Ellicott City Maryland 6. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: Historic American Building Survey ( 13_photos) D*TE OF SJRVEY: 1933 F»rf«f«l Stole County Locol DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Division of Print s and Photographs, Library of Congress STREET AND 'IOM9CB:

CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Washington D.C. HO-22 DESCRIPTION (Chock One) • Excellent XX ^ood • Eoir • Deteriototed • Ruins • Unexposed CONDITION (Clieck One) (Check One) X)£ Altered • Unoltered Q Moved Q Originol Site

IDESCKI BE THE PRU5ENT AND ORIGINAL (it known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The facts about the construction of Doughoregan Manor have never been fully established. It is believed that Charles Carroll II built the house about 1727.

The main house, which is about 66-feet long and 30-feet deep, was originally a one—and-a-half story gambrel roofed brick building v/ith two pair of end chimneys. To the north stood a small detached ~'one-story brick familj' chapel and to the south, a brick kithcen, with servants' quarters. Both of these outbuildings were probably erected around 17S0. In the 1830s Charles, V, enlarged and revised these ' » three buildings into their present form. He raised the main house half-story to a full story, making it a two-story structure. The new gable roof was cut off at the top to form a flat deck, which was balustraded and surmounted by an octagonal cupola. The center door of the front (west) facade was sheltered by a new one-story portico with four Doric columns. A similar new portico on the rear (west) eleva tion had a room above it and on either side a long one-story covered veranda with iron columns and marble floor extended the length of the main house. The chapel to the north was enlarged and its height raised and the remodelled building was joined to the main house by means of a two-story passageway.1 The kitchen to the south was similarly enlarged and connscted to the central block. The resulting new five- part composition, about 300-feet in length, was unified by the addi tion of wooden walkways to the roofs of the wings and the installation of a octagonal cupola on the central block.

The central house has a center hall plan. The main hall,paneled in oak, extends through from front to rear. The stair is located in a small side hall, situated on the north side of the main hall, adja cent to the east (front) entrance. Beyond the side hall is a library and to the west, the large parlor. On the south side of the main hall are the small parlor, in the southeast corner, and to the west, the dining room. The second floor bedrooms, remodelled in the 1830s, were completely renovated and redecorated aroun

The interior of the chapel was further altered in the period after 1865. HO-22 SIGNIFICANCE

PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate)

. • Pre-Columbion ! Q 16th Century }QJ 18lh Century • 20th Century

• 15th Century Q ,7,h Century JR 19th Century

SPECIFIC DATElS) (It Applicable and Known) " 1766~1832

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

Aboriginol • Education [°J Political D Urban Plonning

• Prehistoric rj Engineering rj Religion/Phi. • 0,her f**e*M

• Historic rj Industry losophy

• Agriculture Q Invention rj Science

E Architecture Q Londscope Q Sculpture

D Art Architecture Q Socio l/Human-

• Commerce • Literature ilorian

Q Communications Q Military •"Theater

• Conservation r-j Music J-J Tronsportat ion

[STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Doughoregan Manor, was the country home from 1766 to 1832 of Charles Carroll (III) "of Carollton," a signer of the Declaration of Independence for Maryland, planter, landowner, politician, and U.S. Senator. The Georgian brick plantation house, built about 1727, was greatly enlarged and remodelled in the Greek Revival Style in the 1830's. His favorite- country home, Charles Carroll is buried in the family chapel attached to the north end of the mansion.

Brief Sketch of the Life of Charles Carroll (III) of Carrollton, 1737-1832.

Charles Carroll,III, was born at Annapolis, Maryland, September 19, 1737, into a wealthy Roman Catholic family. He was educated by the Society of Jesus in Maryland; he attended the College de St. Omer in French Flanders from 1748 to 1752 and the College de Louis le Grand in Parish from 1753 to 1757. He then went to London for several years, where he continued the study of civil law that he had begun in France. In 1765, at the age of 28, Carroll returned to Maryland and took up the development of the 10,000 acre tract in Frederick County located at the mouth of the Monocary River and known as Carrollton Manor, which his father made over to him at this time. Here in a farmhouse he erected near present-day Buckeytown, Charles Carroll lived the life of a country gentleman of property. In 1765 he began the prac tice of adding "of Carrollton" to his name to distinguish himself from his father and cousins of the same name.

He took no part in Maryland politics as he was debarred by law from political activity by his legal disability as a Roman Catholic. In 1768 he married his cousin Mary Darnall, by whom he had seven children, three of whom lived to maturity. In 1773 Carroll entered politics when he published a series of letters in Annapolis news - papers, .in 1774 and 1775 lie was a member of the Annapolis Committee of Correspondence, of the first. Maryland convention, of the provin cial committee of correspondence and the committee of safety. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Maryland HO-22 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PL ACES COUNTY INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Howard FOR NPS USE ONLY • ENTRY NUMBER DATE (Continuation Sheet)

I (.Vumbor oil entries) Doughoregan Manor House 8. Significance (1) (Charles Carroll (III) of Carrollton)

Because of his standing among American Catholics and his knowledge of French, the Continental Congress, in February, 1776, appointed Carroll a member of a commission to visit Canada "to promote or form a union" between Canada and the colonies. The mission failed. He was a delegate to the Maryland convention of 1776 and appointed a dele gate to the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Carroll went almost immediately to Philadelphia, voted for the engrossment of the Declara tion of Independence on July 19, and signed the document on August 2. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1779 and a state senator from 1776 to 1804.

In 1787 he was elected to the Constitutional Convention but declined to serve. He favored, however, the adoption of the Consti tution. He was chosen a U.S. Senator from Maryland in 1790 and served until 1792, when he resigned this office. In 1804, after he failed to be re-elected to the Maryland senate, he retired from public service at the age of 67. He then devoted his time to the development of an estate that included between 70 and 80,000 acres of land in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York. He was a member of the Potomac Company (1785) and of its successor, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (1823). He was on the first board of directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and laid its cornerstone on July 4, 1828. Carroll died at Baltimore on November 14, 1832 and was buried in the family chapel on his country estate, Doughoregan Manor. At the time of his death he was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence and believed to be the wealthiest citizen in the United States.

HISTORY OF THE HOUSE

Charles Carroll, I, acquired the 10,000 acres comprising the original Doughoregan Manor in 1717. His son, Charles Carroll, II, is believed to have constructed the main section of the mansion about 1727 and on his death in the 1760's, Doughoregan Manor passed to his son, Charles Carroll III, "the signer." The mansion was the latter's favorite country home. His grandson, Charles Carroll, V, remodelled and enlarged the Georgian .house in the Greek Revival style shortly after his grandfather's death in 1832. The estate, now containing about 2,800 acres, is still owned by the Carroll family. HO-22 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IV, 34-37. Article by Edwin S. Corwin.

Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State (American Guide Series) (New York, 1940), 331. Great Georgian Houses of America (2 vols., New York, 1933-37), Vol. I, 132-137.

J.M. Hammond, Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware (Philadelphia, 1914), 110-30. Katherine Scarborough, Homes of the Cavaliers (Nov.' York, 1930), 121, 123. 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA

\\\. FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: Charles YV. Snell, Survey Historian ORSANIZAT.ON Division of History, Office of Archeology and DATE Historic Preservation, National Park Service 5/21/71 STREET AND NUMBER: 8tn IQt.h Strati W.ff, CITY OR TOWN: Washington D.C. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTI FICA l ION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION

As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na I hereby certify that this property is Lncluded in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). 1 hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register. in the Nntional Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Office of .Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: National [3 State [J Local rj

Date Name ATTEST:

Title Keeper ol 77>c Notional Kefiisicr

"Da it- Date HO-22

United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240

H5417-772 JUL 2 2 1977

Mr. Philip A. Carroll Doughoregan Manor Ellicott City, Maryland 21043

Dear Mr. Carroll:

We are pleased to send you copies of our correspondence concerning the designation of Doughoregan Manor, Ellicott City, Maryland, as a national historic landmark that you requested in phone conversation on July 20, 1977. A redefinition of the boundary of Doughoregan

Manor, Maryland, was considered and approved by Secretary of the

Interior Cecil Andrus on May 5, 1977. A copy of this special request for boundary adjustment is also enclosed. We hope this will give you the information you need.

Sincerely yours,

Horace J. Sheely, Jr.

George F. Emery Chief, Historic Sites Survey Division

Enclosures cc: Mr. John N. Pearce State Historic Preservation Officer John Shaw House 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 HO-22 United States Department of the Interior

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240

H3417-772 MAY 2 5 1977

Mr. John N. Pearce State Historic Preservation Officer John Shaw House 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Dear Mr. Pearce:

We are enclosing a copy of the redefined boundary for Doughoregan Manor with its verbal description. The new boundary was considered by the Secretary of the Interior's Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments at its 76th meeting April 18-20 in Washington, D.C. The Advisory Board recommended that the proposed change be approved, and this action was taken by Secretary Andrus on May 5, 1977.

We trust that this information will serve to make your file on Doughoregan Manor current.

Sincerely yours,

George F. Emery Chief, Historic Sites Survey Division

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SPECIAL REQUEST-Boundary Adjustment

Doughoregan Manor National Historic Landmark Howard County, Maryland

(Country home of Charles Carroll, Signer of the Declaration of Independence)

Doughoregan Manor is still in the Carroll family. When in 1971 Historian Charles Snell met the owner in order to develop a boundary, the latter indicated that he would not like to commit the total property of 2,042 acres to landmark status but would like to leave part of it out for possible future development. A compromise was reached; a boundary that gave protection to the manor house and dependencies and provided screening from future development was drawn. It encompassed about 900 acres.

Since enactment of the 1976 Tax Reform Act, the owner, Mr. Philip Carroll, has changed his mind and wishes to extend landmark status to the entire holding of 2,042 acres. An important consideration is that he is pre pared to donate an easement to the Maryland Historical Trust. From the standpoint of this office, the accomplishment of getting the additional 1,000 acres plus of this historic site protected makes the proposed land mark expansion a commendable and supportable action.

We recommend the boundary change as shown on the attached plat and metes and bounds description. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION HO-22 DOUGHOREGAN MANOR

ruling for the same at a stone set at the northerrmost boundry of Baltimore-Frederick Turnpike, Maryland State Route 144, ""at"the inter section of said Route 144, and Manor Lane, being in the Second Election District of Howard County, and running the following 44 courses and dis tances:

1. Following the North boundry of said State Route 144 and running South 78 degrees 02 minutes 48 seconds East 3140.09 feet;

2. Thence leaving said State Route 144 and running South 25 degrees 58 minutes 45 seconds East 2921.96 feet;

3. Thence South 21 degrees 10 minutes 35 seconds East 412.58 feet to a stone;

4. Thence South 87 degrees 17 minutes 37 seconds West 523.99 feet to a stone;

5. Thence South 07 degrees 19 minutes 03 seconds East 2783.20 feet to a stone;

6. Thence South 61 degrees 55 minutes 21 seconds West 642.37 feet to a stone; 7. Thence South 61 degrees 52 minutes 51 seconds West 2549.50 feet to a stone;

8. Thence South 27 degrees 49 minutes 20 seconds East 3024.41 feet to a stone;

9. Thence South 61 degrees 59 minutes 09 seconds West 180.43 feet;

10. Thence South 27 degrees 01 minutes 31 seconds East 513.33 feet to a stone; 11. Thence South 49 degrees 13 minutes 56 seconds West 956.26 feet to a stone;

12. Thence North 85 degrees 56 minutes 08 seconds West 1573.23 feet;

13. Thence South 76 degrees 03 minutes 52 seconds West 1021.30 feet to a stone;

14. Thence South 76 degrees 13 minutes 08 seconds West 3570.74 feet, crossing and following Manor Lane for a distance to a stone;

15. Thence South 78 degrees 20 minutes West 561.0 feet;

16. Thence North 17 degrees 55 minutes 0 seconds West 2314.65 feet;

Thence North 03 degrees 44 minutes 03 seconds West 354.05 feet to the center of an old bridge;

18. Thence North 15 degrees 17 minutes 33 seconds West 165.0 feet; HO-22 19. Thence North 19 degrees 47 minutes 33 seconds West 592.00 feet to Carroll's Mill Road;

20. Thence following Carroll's Mill Road South 72 degrees 11 minutes West, 57.75 feet to an iron pipe;

21. Thence still following Carroll's Mill Road North 87 degrees 49 minutes West 396.00 feet to an iron pipe;

22. Thence North 69 degrees 36 minutes West 206.70 feet to an iron pipe;

23. Thence North 21 degrees 54 minutes East 209.10 feet;

24. Thence North 69 degrees 36 minutes West 209.10 feet;

25. Thence North 44 degrees 30 minutes West 1031.25 feet;

26. Thence North 84 degrees 51 minutes West 87.45 feet;

27. Thence North 21 degrees 51 minutes East 775.89 feet;

28. Thence North 35 degrees 21 minutes East 297.00 feet;

29. Thence South 58 degrees 55 minutes East 750.38 feet;

30. Thence North 80 degrees 0 minutes East 132.00 feet; see note p.3 r 31. Thence North 24 degrees 56 minutes 53 seconds East 1468.58 feet;

32. Thence South 65 degrees 03 minutes 07 seconds East 394.22 feet to a stone;

33. Thence North 27 degrees 16 minutes 05 seconds East 653.39 feet;

34. Thence North 32 degrees 28 minutes 55 seconds West 417.44 feet to a Poplar tree.

35. Thence North 42 degrees 41 minutes 06 seconds West 364.81 feet to a stone;

36. Thence North 13 degrees 31 minutes 04 seconds East 1056.53 feet;

37. Thence North 47 degrees 48 minutes 39 seconds West 634.82 feet to the center line of Vineyard Road; •

38. Thence following center line of said Vineyard Road North 57 degrees 55 minutes 48 seconds East 500.86 feet;

39. Thence still following said centerline North 53 degrees 00 minutes 48 seconds East 577.50 feet;

40. Thence still following said centerline North 39 degrees 45 minutes 48 seconds East 2458.50 feet;

41. Thence still following said centerline North 26 degrees 15 minutes 48 seconds East 2376.00 feet to the center of the intersection of said Vineyard Road and State Route 144; PROPERTY DESCRIPTION CONTINUED - PAGE 3 HO-22

42. Thence following centerline of said State Poute 144, South 82 degrees 36 minutes 44 seconds East 189.50 feet;

43. Thence North 14 degrees 06 minutes 44 seconds West 35.47 feet to the northernmost boundry of said State Route 144;

44. Thence following said northern boundry of State Route 144, South 82 degrees 36 minutes 44 seconds East 1394.98 feet to the place of be ginning. Above described property containing 2071.56 acres more or less.

Above property boundry descriptions taken from "Map of Doughoregan Manor" Second Election District of Howard County, Ellicott City, Maryland, Surveyed 1958 by Claude M. Skinner, Jr. HO-22

HO-22 Form 10-300o UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Maryland NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Howard FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER GATE (Doughoregan Manor) (Continuation Sheet) (Charles Caroll (III) of Carollton House) (TVumber all entries)

2. Boundaries for this Historic Site: Doughoregan Manor (Charles Carroll III).

Obsolete 5/58/77 Approximately 900 acres in the shape of a trapezoid, including the Doughoregan Manor plantation house, dependencies, and 18th century farm buildings starting at the northwest corner at the junction of the National Pike (State Route 144) and Quarter Folly Road at latitude 39° 17' 09" K. - longitude 76° 53' 43" W., proceeding in a easterly direction along the south edge of the National Pike for about 6,000-feet to the northeast comer at latitude0 39* 54" H. - long. 76° 52* 30" W. , then proceeding in a straight line to the southwest for about 5200- feet to the southeast corner at lat. 39° 16' 05" N. - long. 76° 52' 52" W., then going northwest about 7800-feet to the southwest corner on the east edge of Folly Quarter Road at lat. 39° 16' 23" K. - long.76° 54' 29" Ms'., then returning northeast along the east edge of Folly Quarter Road about 68OO-feet to the beginning, the northwest corner. Prescise boundaries, as described above, are recorded in black ink on a copy of U.S. Geological Survey Map: Sykesville Quadrangle, Maryland 7.5 Minute Sgrries (Topographic) 1953, on file with the Branch of His torical Surveys, Division of History, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service. Total acreage in the Doughoregan Manor estate is about 2,800 acres. -900 acres are included in the proposed historic district.

MHT Dist. 3 Howard County

Doughoregan Manor

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