Rosehill is a historic home and property at Gambrills,

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. The property consists of of partially wooded and cleared land on which are located a dwelling and six outbuildings. The dwelling displays a complex construction evolution originating from a mid-18th-century frame, -story double-pile plan house with an unusual short side passage. This is believed to be the first documented example of this form in the

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region. The six outbuildings include an early-19th-century frame corn house, a documented 1821 frame

tobacco barn The tobacco barn, a type of functionally classified barn found in the USA, was once an essential ingredient in the process of air- curing tobacco. In the 21st century they are fast disappearing from the landscape in places where they were once ubi ...

, a log outbuilding, a late-19th-century stable, and a late-19th- or early-20th-century pumphouse. The Hopkins family owned the property for 173 years, from 1799 until 1972. It was listed on the

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in 1987.

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*, including photo from 1986, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Anne Arundel County, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1750 establishments in Maryland {{AnneArundelCountyMD-NRHP-stub