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LITTLETON LONG HOUSE

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c. 1830. 11696 Church St.
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)

Built for local merchant Littleton Long, this is the most intact and well executed of numerous gable-front Federal-period houses in town. The symmetrical three-bay facade with pedimented gable front with a circular window mirrors the main block of Teackle Mansion, although of frame construction. Like Teackle Mansion, the plan of Long’s house encompasses a transverse hall with a stair to one end, twin parlors to the rear, and a two-story service wing. A simplified version of Long’s house is seen in one of the few extant antebellum commercial buildings in town that he built as his store (c. 1848; 11787 Somerset Avenue).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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What's Nearby

COTTMAN HOUSE
SOMERSET COUNTY COURTHOUSE
TEACKLE MANSION
SETH D. VENABLES HOUSE (SIMPLICITY)
BECKFORD

Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "LITTLETON LONG HOUSE", [Princess Anne, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-ES80.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 136-136.

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