Brooklandwood, or Brookland Wood, is a historic home located in Brooklandville,

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. Its grounds became developed for the St. Paul's School for Boys. The house is a -story, five-bay dwelling. The central block and two later wings are brick, painted white. The central-block section is original and built about 1790, with porches and

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-style windows forming a symmetrical, functional unit. It was owned by Captain John Cockey and then sold to

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, and several of his descendants: Carroll's daughter and son-in-law Mary and

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, parents of Emily Caton, who married John MacTavish, the British Consul to Baltimore in the early 1800s.Robert Erskine Lewis: "Brooklandwood, Baltimore County" in: ''Maryland Historical Magazine'', Vol. XLIII, No. 4, December, 1948, pp. 280-293, It was also owned by Isaac E. Emerson, the inventor of

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. It was listed on the

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on February 11, 1972. File:Brooklandwood Marker Dec 09.JPG, Brooklandwood Historical Marker File:MHS-Brooklandwood.jpg, Brooklandwood statuary

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*, including photo from 2006, at Maryland Historical Trust Brooklandville, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Baltimore County, Maryland Houses completed in 1790 Carroll family residences Palladian Revival architecture in Maryland Federal architecture in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore County, Maryland {{BaltimoreCountyMD-NRHP-stub