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Glencoe (Glencoe, Maryland)

Baltimore County, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubsHouses completed in 1856Houses in Baltimore County, MarylandHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in MarylandItalianate architecture in Maryland
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Glencoe House
Glencoe House

Glencoe is a historic home and resort complex located at Glencoe, Baltimore County, Maryland. It consists if a complex of Italianate-influenced domestic buildings and structures, clustered around a square, two-story frame dwelling. The house features a broad porch, which wraps around two sides with an iron-railed deck atop the porch. Four interior brick chimneys rise around a central observation deck. The property also includes a two-story, mansard roofed stable / carriage house, a smokehouse, ice house, sheep shed, garden house (probably a former chicken house), and a latticed frame gazebo. It was built in 1851-1856 as a private residence, but was subsequently developed as a summer resort.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Glencoe Road 1314
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Maryland, United States
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