Glencoe is a historic home and resort complex located at Glencoe,
Baltimore County
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,
Maryland
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. It consists if a complex of
Italianate
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-influenced domestic buildings and structures, clustered around a square, two-story frame dwelling. The house features a broad porch, which wraps around two sides with an iron-railed deck atop the porch. Four interior brick chimneys rise around a central observation deck. The property also includes a two-story,
mansard roof
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ed stable / carriage house, a
smokehouse
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is curing (food preservation), cured with Smoking (cooking), smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.ice house, sheep shed, garden house (probably a former chicken house), and a latticed frame gazebo. It was built in 1851-1856 as a private residence, but was subsequently developed as a summer resort.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1983.
File:Glencoe House Extrerior.jpg, Exterior of Glencoe House Taken From Front Driveway
File:Glencoe House Sign.jpg, Sign in front of Glencoe House, Circa 1810