Maryland copied Homewood, the Baltimore house of the son of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was built in brick by Douglas H. Thomas, and the bricks looked as though they had weathered a hundred winters. There were iron railings beside the broad stairs and a knocker on the paneled door under an old fanlight. Two rooms were furnished historically, one Jacobean and one in Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, and there was a Mason-Dixon milestone. A little girl, Todd reports, said touring the State buildings was 'like going into nice people's houses.'
The building also held a geological exhibit and a Baltimore social-economy display. The exhibit catalogue of its historical rooms ran to 36 pages. On Maryland Day, May 19, 1915, Governor Goldsborough planted a white oak.
At a glance
- State appropriation $75,000.
- Dedicated March 20, 1915.
- Designed by Douglas H. Thomas.
- Maryland Day, May 19, 1915.
Afterward
Not recorded; presumably auctioned and wrecked.
Sources
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (1921), ch. LVIII, p. 316
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (1921), ch. LXXIII, pp. 367-370
- Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, vol. IV (1921), p. 215 (clay-products model house west of the Maryland Building)
- Official Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), p. 56