Handsell
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| Location | Indiantown Road, Vienna, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°30′30″N 75°48′45″W / 38.50833°N 75.81250°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1770 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 08000216[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 26, 2008 |
Handsell, also known as the Webb House, is a historic home located at Vienna, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a late-18th-century Georgian-style manor house. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick structure over an English basement. The main facade is five bays wide and has a central entrance containing a double door flanked by windows. Handsell bears the name of a 1665 land grant, which has been in the Webb family since 1892.[2]
Handsell was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System – (#08000216)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Jacquelyn K. Bateman (August 3, 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Handsell" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
External links
[edit]- Handsell, Dorchester County, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Handsell, 4835 Indiantown Road, Vienna, Dorchester County, MD: 21 photos, 6 measured drawings, 23 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
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- Houses completed in 1770
- Houses in Dorchester County, Maryland
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Georgian architecture in Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places in Dorchester County, Maryland
- 1770 establishments in Maryland
- Eastern Shore, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubs