Mattapax is a historic home located at Stevensville, Queen Anne's County,

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. It is a -story brick house, three bays wide, and one room deep, with flush brick chimneys at either end of a pitched

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roof built about 1760. In 1949 a restoration resulted in the construction of a brick wing to replace an earlier frame wing. Also on the property are a frame cottage, a large horse barn, and a frame wagon shed. It was listed on the

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in 1998.

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*, including photo from 1998, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Queen Anne's County, Maryland Houses completed in 1760 Kent Island, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Queen Anne's County, Maryland {{QueenAnnesCountyMD-NRHP-stub