Mount_Aventine References

	Mount Aventine
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Front of the Chapman House
Nearest city	Bryans Road, Maryland
Coordinates	38°37′4″N 77°7′3″W / 38.61778°N 77.11750°W
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	94001328
Added to NRHP	April 18, 1996

Mount Aventine is a farm complex and national historic district located along the Potomac River in Bryans Road, Charles County, Maryland. The complex includes the main house; a second-quarter 19th century Greek Revival-influenced brick house. It was enlarged about 1860 to its present five-bay, center-passage, 2+1⁄2-story appearance. Also on the property are a 19th-century frame smokehouse, the site of another 19th-century house complex, late-19th /early-20th-century agricultural outbuildings, house and dairy barn complex built about 1900, historic roadbeds, a family cemetery, and sites of a 19th-century fishery and an 18th-century house.^[2]

Its former cupola was used as a signal station by the Federal government during the American Civil War. The Chapman family owned the Mt. Aventine tract from 1751 until 1916, and the ferry operated by them was one of several important crossings of the Potomac River connecting Northern Virginia to Maryland.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996,^[1] and since 1998 has been preserved as part of Chapman State Park.^[3]

The house is open for tours during special events hosted by the Friends of Chapman State Park.

Gallery

Rear of the Chapman House
Abandoned barn

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b J. Richard Rivoire (July 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Aventine" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
^ "Chapman State Park". Maryland DNR. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.

External links

Chapman State Park Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Friends of Chapman State Park
Mount Aventine, including photo from 1991, at Maryland Historical Trust

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[mht_ihp-2] J. Richard Rivoire (July 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Aventine" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.

[mdnr-3] "Chapman State Park". Maryland DNR. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.

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