Jonestown in Baltimore, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Small Brick Building
Carroll Mansion
Photographed by Don Morfe, April 14, 2017
1. Small Brick Building Marker
Inscription.
Small Brick Building. Carroll Mansion. A two-story wing possibly a kitchen, extended off the back of the mansion. Activities in an early nineteenth-century kitchen and kitchen yard included cooking for the entire household, drawing water, heating water for laundry and personal use, ironing, butchering, and drying herbs.
Historical records indicated that the two-story wing was made of brick and had a door connecting its second story to the second story of the mansion. Archaeological evidence indicates that the wing had a brick basement floor and steps which led to the cellar of the mansion.
Kitchens in Baltimore were often extensions of the main structure or separate from it, because of danger from the open fire-place. If you look closely around the first-and second-story windows on the east side (left) of the building, you can see evidence of where the doors connected the wing to the main structure.
(Inscription below the image on the left) , View from Shot Tower taken after the 1904 fire (detail), Baltimore City Life Museums.
(Inscription beside the image in the lower center) , Early twentieth century view of the Carroll Mansion showing demolished wing, collection of the Maryland Historical Society.
A two-story wing possibly a kitchen, extended off the back of the mansion. Activities in an early nineteenth-century kitchen and kitchen yard included cooking for the entire household, drawing water, heating water for laundry and personal use, ironing, butchering, and drying herbs.
Historical records indicated that the two-story wing was made of brick and had a door connecting its second story to the second story of the mansion. Archaeological evidence indicates that the wing had a brick basement floor and steps which led to the cellar of the mansion.
Kitchens in Baltimore were often extensions of the main structure or separate from it, because of danger from the open fire-place. If you look closely around the first-and second-story windows on the east side (left) of the building, you can see evidence of where the doors connected the wing to the main structure.
(Inscription below the image on the left) View from Shot Tower taken after the 1904 fire (detail), Baltimore City Life Museums.
(Inscription beside the image in the lower center) Early twentieth century view of the Carroll Mansion showing demolished wing, collection of the Maryland Historical Society.
Location. 39° 17.321′ N, 76° 36.266′ W. Marker is in Baltimore, Maryland. It is in Jonestown. It is on Front Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Baltimore MD 21202, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Central Maryland. It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic, in the Chesapeake Bay Region, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies and also the Antebellum South.
3. Small Brick Building Marker-1840s Carrollton Inn
Photographed by Don Morfe, April 14, 2017
4. Small Brick Building Marker-The Carroll Mansion
Photographed by Don Morfe, April 14, 2017
5. Small Brick Building Marker-The Carroll Mansion
Photographed by Don Morfe, April 14, 2017
6. Small Brick Building Marker-1840s Carrollton Inn
The Carroll Mansion marker has previously been posted on HMDB.org
Credits. This page was last revised on August 28, 2020. It was originally submitted on April 19, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 359 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on April 19, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
