Oakwood is a
historic house
A historic house generally meets several criteria before being listed by an official body as "historic." Generally the building is at least a certain age, depending on the rules for the individual list. A second factor is that the building be in ...
at
Harwood,
Anne Arundel County
Anne Arundel County (; ), also notated as AA or A.A. County, is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 588,261, an increase of just under 10% since 2010. Its county seat is Annapolis, whi ...
,
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
. It was built in the 1850s and is a -story, frame vernacular farmhouse with
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
influenced details. It is a highly intact, mid-19th-century tobacco
plantation
A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...
dwelling and is associated with
Sprigg Harwood Sprigg may refer to:
People
*James Cresap Sprigg (1802-1852), American politician who represented Kentucky as a United States Representative
*John Gordon Sprigg (1830–1913), Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
*Joshua Sprigg (1618-1684), English In ...
, a leader in the failed initiative to have Maryland leave the Union and align with the newly formed
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...
.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2001.
See also
*
Maryland in the American Civil War
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Maryland, a slave state, was one of the border states, straddling the South and North. Despite some popular support for the cause of the Confederate States of America, Maryland did not secede durin ...
*
Tulip Hill
Tulip Hill is a plantation house located about one mile from Galesville in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland. Built between 1755 and 1756, it is a particularly fine example of an early Georgian mansion, and was designated a Nati ...
References
External links
*, including photo from 1999, at Maryland Historical Trust
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Greek Revival houses in Maryland
Colonial Revival architecture in Maryland
Plantation houses in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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