Seton Belt Barn, West Side of Church Road, north of Central Avenue (Route 214), Mitchellville, Prince George's County, MD
Summary
Significance: The Seton Belt Barn is a unique, decorative example of a late 19th-century multi-use barn. The venture of a wealthy planter, William Seton Belt, the barn exhibits decorative features of Victorian-era architecture such as the jerkinhead roof, cupolas, and use of board-and-batten siding. It was part of the large landholdings of the Belt family, who retained possession of this tract from the 1860s until 1959. The Belts built two barns of this type during the same time period, one hear at the home farm and the other nearby at Belmont.
Survey number: HABS MD-981
Building/structure dates: ca. 1860 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Klugh, T, transmitter
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Lavoie, Catherine C, historian
Location
Mitchellville, 38.89921, -76.79744
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