The Glebe House, also known as Davis's Choice, Turner's Purchase, and incorrectly as the Samuel Chase House, is a historic house at 10950 Market Lane in

Princess Anne, Maryland Princess Anne is a town in Somerset County, Maryland, Somerset County, Maryland, United States, that also serves as its county seat. Its population was 3,290 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is included in the Salisbury metropolita ...

. The -story house was built in 1784 and is a rare instance of an 18th-century brick-ender, a building form that was once common on the

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. The house has three wood-frame walls, and the fourth is of brick laid in Flemish bond with a projecting water table. The house was substantially altered in the 1920s when its roof was raised and a second story was added, but this work was undone when the house underwent restoration around the turn of the 21st century. It was long thought to be of greater age, and the childhood home or birthplace of

Samuel Chase Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741 – June 19, 1811) was a Founding Father of the United States, a signatory to the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and an Associate Justice of th ...

, a signer of the

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, but

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has shown these connections to be incorrect. The house was listed on the

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in 2009.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Georgian architecture in Maryland Houses completed in 1784 Houses in Somerset County, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland {{SomersetCountyMD-NRHP-stub

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