Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George's County, MD
Summary
Significance: Montpelier is a National Historic Landmark as a distinguished example of a late Georgian, five-part plantation house with exceptionally fine interior detailing. Montpelier is also of significance as the primary homeplace of the Snowden family who received the original land grant for this area, first settling here ca. 1690. Through their iron works, and later their textile mills, the Snowden family developed and dominated the local economy for well over a century.
Survey number: HABS MD-140
Building/structure dates: ca. 1783 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1794-1795 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000852
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Snowden, Thomas
Snowden, Anne
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Brostrup, John O, photographer
Pickering, E H, photographer
Nichols, Frederick D, photographer
Lavoie, Catherine C, historian
Location
Laurel Wood, 39.07014, -76.84297
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html