Glen Burnie (Palmyra, Virginia)

{{short description|Historic house in Virginia, United States}}

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

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Glen Burnie

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = June 14, 2000{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 032-0017

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Glen Burnie gate.jpg

| caption = Entrance to the property

| location = U.S. Route 15, {{convert|0.25|mi}} north of Palmyra, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|37|52|1|N|78|15|27|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1829}}

| builder = John Hartwell Cocke

| architecture =

| added = August 2, 2000

| area = {{convert|150|acre}}

| refnum = 00000893{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Glen Burnie is a historic home located near Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was built in 1829, and is a two-story, three-bay, cruciform plan, gable-roofed brick structure with gable-end chimneys. The house was designed by General John Hartwell Cocke for Elizabeth Cary. The house has an eclectic mix of late Federal and Greek, Gothic, and Jacobean revival features. It has a mousetooth cornice, unusual pivoting windows, projecting towers and one-story porches on the south and north facade. Also on the property is the contributing Glen Burnie cemetery.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Fluvanna/032-0017_Glen_Burnie_2000_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Glen Burnie|author=Marvin F. Moss| date=February 2000|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Fluvanna/GlenBurnie_photo.htm Accompanying two photos]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

The property at Glen Burnie currently houses a small Eastern Orthodox monastery, the home to two monks.{{cite web|url=https://www.bulgariandiocese.org/parishdirectory?type=details&id=33|title=Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese/Skete of St Maximos the Confessor|accessdate = 25 June 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://fluvannareview.com/2014/10/marvin-moss/|title=Interview with Marvin Moss|date=14 October 2014|accessdate = 25 June 2021}} One monk is an Iconographer and has a workshop and studio on the property at Glen Burnie.{{cite web|url=https://orthochristian.com/99748.html|title=Palmyra Monk creates Icons|date=22 December 2016|accessdate=25 June 2021}}