St. Richard's Manor

St. Richard's Manor
Location Millstone Landing Rd., Lexington Park, Maryland
Coordinates 38°17′45″N 76°28′12″W / 38.29583°N 76.47000°W / 38.29583; -76.47000Coordinates: 38°17′45″N 76°28′12″W / 38.29583°N 76.47000°W / 38.29583; -76.47000
Architect Unknown
Architectural style No Style Listed
NRHP Reference # 85000655 [1]
Added to NRHP March 28, 1985

St. Richard's Manor is a historic home located at Lexington Park, St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a  1 1⁄2-story Flemish bond brick dwelling, with a steeply pitched gable roof, constructed before 1750 on the Patuxent River. Also on the property are two tobacco barns built about 1935, and a small pyramid-roofed concrete block pumphouse.[2]

On December 16, 1652, "St. Richard's Manor" was re-patented to Luke Gardiner, heir of Richard Gardiner, because the original patent had been lost as a result of the internal strife with Ingle in 1645. Shortly afterwards /_that is in the 1650s _/ Richard Edelen was contracted by Luke to build a second house on the Manor. This house is still standing today on fifty-five acres of the original land patent. Richard Edelen built a second house called "Riverview" (circa 1659) for Luke Gardiner near St. Clements Island.[3]

St. Richard's Manor was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ George A.T. Donely and Peter E. Kurtze (October 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Richard's Manor" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. ↑ "Adventurers Cavaliers Patriots Ancestors Remembered Published by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland, 1994


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