Rose Hill, Rose Hill Road, Port Tobacco, Charles County, MD
Summary
Significance: One of Charles County's finest examples of formal Georgian architecture, Rose Hill is prominently located on high ground with an expansive view of the Port Tobacco valley below. The house was built c. 1784. Rose Hill was the home of Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown (1747-1804) who was a physician and friend of George Washington as well as an avid horticulturalist and landscape architect. Dr. Brown was called to Washington's deathbed at Mt. Vernon, Virginia, to act as one of his medical advisors.
Survey number: HABS MD-58
Building/structure dates: before 1800 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1937 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Waterman, Thomas T, photographer
Nichols, Frederick D, historian
Location
Port Tobacco Lakes, 38.53209, -77.03480
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