Architectural & Historic Treasures
You are Invited to the Saylor House
Posted on: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 3:56 pm
Special “Before Restoration” HOUSE TOUR for WCHT members and Friends Sunday, October 16, 2016 1 to 4 pm (Free of Charge) After 60 years of neglect, until …
212 – Cool Hollow House, circa 1850, south of Funkstown, MD
Posted on: Tuesday, August 30th, 2016 @ 2:28 pm
Antietam Creek swings close to Old National Pike near the western end of Cool Hollow Road near Beaver Creek. A handsome white-painted brick house, laid in American bond, with interior …
Saylor House, Circa 1800, Hagerstown, MD
Posted on: Sunday, May 29th, 2016 @ 1:00 pm
In 2007, planning for a new business park began in Hagerstown. The 29-acre parcel slated for development stands along Jefferson Boulevard, east of Eastern Boulevard from where Diamond Drive and …
Donnelly House, circa 1815, south of Williamsport, MD
Posted on: Sunday, May 29th, 2016 @ 12:18 pm
Falling Waters Road undulates over rolling farmland moving west from Spielman Road to the Potomac River. As it curls past a bluff on the north, the corner of an old …
“The Plan” for the Saylor House
Posted on: Saturday, May 28th, 2016 @ 10:15 pm
When determined preservationists present an idea benefiting the community to receptive government leaders, the result is “The Plan.” Occasionally, we are pleased to say, it works. Hagerstown City Council Approves …
St. Patrick’s Day in Funkstown – or The Battle of Funkstown 1823
Posted on: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 2:16 pm
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, an excerpt from Rebel of ’61. In his 1899 book Rebel of ’61, the author, Joseph R. Stonebraker, told of a riot on St. Patrick’s Day 1823 in the …
Save the Saylor!
Posted on: Monday, March 7th, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
Near the Antietam Creek just east of the newly developed Hagerstown Light Business Park, in the new Kiwanis Park, a circa 1800 stone house stands off the beaten-path, unused, …
141 – Rockland Farm, 1773. Hagerstown, MD
Posted on: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 3:31 pm
Fiddlersburg is a small community on the eastern fringes of Hagerstown. The main street, Antietam Drive, has been supplanted by Eastern Boulevard and the railroad crossing closed so that …
98 – Prince of Germany, circa 1810-1840, north of Smithsburg, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 10:27 pmThe house on Bradbury Avenue, along the fringes of Smithsburg, looks like so many other simple, everyman homes in the county. It sits close to the road, covered in cream-painted …
65 – Sunshine Hill, built 1910, Hancock, MD.
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 10:26 pm
West of Hancock, a private driveway turns off Main Street and climbs a steep hill to an imposing home set well back from the road. Two-story coupled columns …
