Avondale is a historic home located at

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, Carroll County,

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. It is a

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style, -story brick house, measuring approximately 45 feet long by feet deep, built about 1796. The house has a two-story wing measuring approximately 49 feet long by 13 feet deep. It features a

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window centered on the pavilion directly over the entrance door. It was listed on the

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in 1975. An iron foundry was built in the community of Avondale in 1765 by Leigh Master, a settler from New Hall, Lancashire, England, who operated it using slave labor.

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*, including photo in 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust English-American culture in Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Carroll County, Maryland Houses completed in 1796 Georgian architecture in Maryland Westminster, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Maryland 1796 establishments in Maryland {{CarrollCountyMD-NRHP-stub