Beall's Pleasure

{{short description|Historic house in Maryland}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Beall's Pleasure

| nrhp_type =

| image = Bealls Pleasure 1936 HABS.jpg

| caption = Bealls Pleasure, 1936 HABS Photo

| location= 7250 Old Landover Road, Landover, Maryland{{cite journal|title=Historic American Buildings Survey |publisher=National Park Service |volume=HABS-No. MD-635 |page=1 |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=md/md0500/md0527/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=2&next_filecode=e |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121213095009/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=md/md0500/md0527/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=2&next_filecode=e |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-13 }}

| coordinates = {{coord|38|55|51|N|76|53|10|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Maryland#USA

| area =

| built = 1795; 1936

| architect =

| architecture = Federal

| added = May 4, 1979

| refnum = 79003169 {{NRISref|2008a}}

}}

Beall's Pleasure is a historic home located in Landover, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The original owner of the land was Colonel Ninian Beall. He helped establish the first Presbyterian Church in Prince George's County.{{Cite web|url = https://loc.gov/pictures/item/md0527/|title = Beall's Pleasure, Landover Road Vicinity, Landover, Prince George's County, MD|website = Library of Congress|access-date = 2021-01-19|archive-date = 2020-04-20|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200420060131/http://loc.gov/pictures/item/md0527/|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Colonel-Ninian-Beall/6000000006895419429|title=Colonel Ninian Beall|access-date=2021-01-19|archive-date=2021-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127052135/https://www.geni.com/people/Colonel-Ninian-Beall/6000000006895419429|url-status=live}} It was built in 1795 as the summer home of Benjamin Stoddert{{cite journal|title=Historic American Buildings Survey |publisher=National Park Service |volume=HABS-No. MD-635 |page=3 |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=md/md0500/md0527/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=4 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212082504/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=md/md0500/md0527/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-12 }} who later became the first Secretary of the Navy.Scharf, J. Thomas (1879). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9IEjAAAAMAAJ&q=thomas+scharf+history+maryland History of Maryland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day]. Baltimore: John B. Piet. Vol. II, p. 437.

The building is a 2-story Federal brick house with a {{frac|1|1|2}}-story brick wing added in 1936. The building is 5 bays wide in the front and 3 at the rear. The brick has been laid in common bond.

The garden was landscaped in 1936, by Boris V. Timchenko, long-time chief architect of the annual National Capital Flower and Garden Show, and later designer of gardens for President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower.{{cite web |url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-526.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Beall's Pleasure |date=October 1974 |accessdate=2015-08-01 |author=Christopher Owens |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081158/https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-526.pdf |url-status=live }}

Beall's Pleasure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.