Handsell

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

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

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Handsell

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| image = HandsellLRWalls.jpg

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| location = Indiantown Road, Vienna, Maryland

| coordinates = {{coord|38|30|30|N|75|48|45|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Maryland#USA

| built = {{Start date|1770}}

| architect OR builder =

| architecture = Georgian

| added = March 26, 2008

| area = {{convert|2|acre}}

| refnum = 08000216{{NRISref|version=2010a|refnum=08000216}}

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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 {{frac|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.{{cite web|url=https://apps.mht.maryland.gov/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-1461.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Handsell|date=August 3, 2007 |access-date=2016-03-01 |author=Jacquelyn K. Bateman |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}

Handsell was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

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