Beall's Pleasure

Historic house in Maryland

United States historic place


Beall's Pleasure
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Bealls Pleasure, 1936 HABS Photo
38°55′51″N 76°53′10″W / 38.93083°N 76.88611°W / 38.93083; -76.88611
Built	1795; 1936
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	79003169 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 4, 1979

Beall's Pleasure is a historic home located in Landover, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The original owner of the land was Colonel Ninian Beall. He helped establish the first Presbyterian Church in Prince George's County.^[3]^[4] It was built in 1795 as the summer home of Benjamin Stoddert^[5] who later became the first Secretary of the Navy.^[6]

The building is a 2-story Federal brick house with a 1+1⁄2-story brick wing added in 1936. The building is 5 bays wide in the front and 3 at the rear. The brick has been laid in common bond.^[2]

The garden was landscaped in 1936, by Boris V. Timchenko, long-time chief architect of the annual National Capital Flower and Garden Show, and later designer of gardens for President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower.^[2]^[7]

Beall's Pleasure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Historic American Buildings Survey". HABS-No. MD-635. National Park Service: 1. Archived from the original on 2012-12-13. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "Beall's Pleasure, Landover Road Vicinity, Landover, Prince George's County, MD". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
^ "Colonel Ninian Beall". Archived from the original on 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
^ "Historic American Buildings Survey". HABS-No. MD-635. National Park Service: 3. Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Scharf, J. Thomas (1879). History of Maryland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day. Baltimore: John B. Piet. Vol. II, p. 437.
^ Christopher Owens (October 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Beall's Pleasure" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-01.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Beall's Pleasure.

Beall's Pleasure, Prince George's County, Inventory No.: PG:72-2, including photo in 1974, at Maryland Historical Trust website
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-635, "Beall's Pleasure, Landover Road Vicinity, Landover vicinity, Prince George's County, MD", 6 photos, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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