CH-8 Old Friendship La Plata Private (open by appointment)

late 17th century

Moved to the campus of the Charles County Community College from its

original location on Nanjemoy Creek, this small frame house has been

reconstructed as the headquarters and museum of the Historical Society of

Charles County.

The house contains two rooms and was built in two stages. The oldest

section, believed to date from about 1680, displays a paneled chimney breast

with bolection molding around the fireplace opening; a mantel shelf, corner

cupboard, and corner stair are later 18th century additions. In the early 18th

century the house was enlarged by the addition of a new room at one end.

Before its move the house had a riven clapboard roof under later shingles, tilted

false plates, a full-width front porch, and a stone walled cellar room under the

later part of the house. The present chimneys were reconstructed to resemble

the originals as closely as possible.

Friendship was owned by the Dent family for many generations and was

formerly part of their extensive landholdings in the Nanjemoy area.

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445 1. STATE fYiary land couNTY Char I es TOWN Friendship Landing STREET NO.

ORIGINAL OWNER

ORIGINAL usE Owe I Ii ng PRESENT owNER National Education

2. NAME Fri endsh i p

DATE OR PERIOD

STYLE

ARCHITECT

18th century Colonial

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No. oF sToR1Es One 4. NOTABLE FEATURES, HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE ANC' DESCRIPTION OPEN TO PUBLIC NO

Friendship is a one-story frame structure in nearly ruinous condition. It sits on a stone and brick foundation. There is a basement under half of the structure which has vertical bar grills over the windows. The house is four bays long and one room deep. The two center bays are made up of six panelled doors and the two outer bays are six over nine windows. The frame is brick nogging, covered with beaded clapboard. There is a lean.to porch. On the northeast gable is a freestanding chimne~· which at one time had a pent beside it. The chimney at the other gable has disappeared and is replaced with a small chimney within the building. The rear of the building has only two windows.

Beside the fireplaces ~re tall, narrow windows on the east side. The two rooms have a three-piece chair rail and ogee molding around the windows and doors. In the southwest room there is panelling above what used to be the fireplace with mantel and corner cabinet. There is also a narrow stair in the corner opposite the cabinet. The loft is divided into two rooms and hall with vertical tongue-and-groove boards with beaded battens. The doors had two panels.

5. PHYSICAL CONDITION OF ~TRUCTURE Endangered

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3. PUBLISHED SOURCES (Author, Title, Pages)

INTERVIEWS, RE CORDS, PHOTOS, <:TC.

Forman, H. Chandlee Old Bui I dings Gardens and Furni­ture in Tidewater Maryland, 1967 pp. 215 - 219 and fig. 208

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9. NAME, ADDRESS AND TITLE OF RECORDER

Paul Alan Brinkman Maryland Historical Trust

DATEOFRECORD August 28, 1967

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