Spye Park is a historic home located at White Plains,

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. It is a modestly scaled, -story, three-

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frame Colonial dwelling built about 1767. The house's present plan and appearance is the result of a series of 19th- and early-20th-century alterations to the original structure, which was a rectangular, one-room-deep building with end chimneys. Also on the property is a timber-framed

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, a former animal barn, a cornhouse, a poultry house/machine shed, and a wellhouse. Spye Park was listed on the

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in 1990.

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* including photo from 1978, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Charles County, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses completed in 1767 1767 establishments in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Charles County, Maryland {{CharlesCountyMD-NRHP-stub