Belleview, 3201 Steed Road, Fort Washington, Prince George's County, MD

2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry

Significance: Belleview an excellent example of a small, early plantation house, represents what must have been a common early-settlement house type, which rarely survives today. Early dwellings such as this were later supplanted by a second generation of substantial manor houses financed by the tobacco prosperity of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Belleview began as a modest ca. 1792 hall-and-parlor-plan house and evolved into a somewhat more sophisticated residence with a number of additions, including the flounder section to the side and the Greek Revival interior detail added ca. 1830. The farmstead has an interesting collection of outbuildings, including a log meathouse and one of the oldest tobacco barns in the county. The farmstead has been in the Lowe-Steed family since it was first settled.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1435

Survey number: HABS MD-654

Building/structure dates: 1792 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1830 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1960

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1933 - 1960

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