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, United States, that also serves as its county seat. Its population was 3,290 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland–Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is hom ...

. 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 Flemish bond is a pattern of brickwork that is a common feature in Georgian architecture. The pattern features bricks laid lengthwise (''stretchers'') alternating with bricks laid with their shorter ends exposed (''headers'') within the same cou ...

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 Fathers of the United States, Founding Father of the United States, signer of the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryla ...

, 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 Brick buildings and structures in Maryland {{SomersetCountyMD-NRHP-stub

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