Ashland Home

The Ashland Home is a historic home located in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, hip-roofed frame dwelling with fine Victorian Italianate decorative detail.

Ashland Home
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Ashland Home in December 2008
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Location	16109 Marlboro Pike, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, U.S.
Coordinates	38°49′1″N 76°43′44″W
Area	53 acres (21 ha)
Built	1866 (1866)
Built by	Peake, William H., Jr.; Hunt, John H.
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	94001155[1]
Added to NRHP	September 15, 1994

The home was built in 1866–1867 by William Beanes Hill of Compton Bassett for his son, William Murdock Hill. The house has been continuously associated with the prominent Hill family. The home is one of only a few significant frame dwellings of the Italianate style which survive in the county. It has a simple square floor plan, with cross gables in each plane of the hip roof. Also on the property are historic outbuildings.^[2]

Ashland was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Susan G. Pearl (June 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ashland" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2015-08-01.

External links

• Ashland, Prince George's County, Inventory No.: 79-063-11, including photo in 1993, at Maryland Historical Trust website