List of the oldest buildings in Maryland
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{{see also|List of the oldest buildings in the United States}}
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This article attempts to list some of the oldest extant buildings surviving in the state of Maryland in the United States of America. Some dates are approximate and based upon dendrochronology, architectural studies, and historical records. Sites on the list are generally from the First Period of American architecture or earlier.
To be listed here a site must:
- date from prior to 1776; or
- be the oldest building in a county, large city, or oldest of its type (church, government building, etc.).
Oldest overall
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Building
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|File:Brooke Place Manor 2020.jpg |1652 |Residence |This is primarily an 1840 structure; that year a "completely new interior" was installed; "all that remains of the first (1652) house are the (lower part of the) exterior walls." The original house was a Flemish bond brick structure of 1-1/2 stories with a very steep A-roof. The current 1840 building is a 2-1/2 story Greek revival structure with a gently sloping A-roof on 100 remaining acres of the original 2,100 acres granted to Robert Brooke, Sr in 1649. |
Old Trinity Church (Church Creek)
| |100px | 1675 | Religious | Church building in continuous use; as such, oldest in the US.{{cite web|title=Old Trinity Church HABS MD No. 201|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/md/md0300/md0398/data/md0398data.pdf|work=Historic American Buildings Survey|publisher=US National Park Service|accessdate=May 6, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506215434/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/md/md0300/md0398/data/md0398data.pdf|archivedate=May 6, 2014}} |
Third Haven Meeting House
| 100px | 1682 | Religious | Oldest Quaker meeting house in the United States |
Spring House, Ft. Lincoln Cemetery
| | Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Prince George's County, Maryland | 1683 | Springhouse | Small springhouse structure. In Maryland by 300 ft.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fort-lincoln.com/location/about/facility.html|title = Fort Lincoln Funeral Home & Cemetery | Funeral, Cremation & Cemetery}} |
Fort Garrison
| 100px | {{circa|1695}} | Fort | |
Holly Hill
| 100px | 1698 (fall or winter); 1713; {{circa|1730}} | Residence | Primitive, two-room, {{frac|1|1|2}}-story frame house at its incarnation. Two subsequent additions/upgrades performed, including a full structural brick encasement in {{circa|1730}}.{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?NRID=59|title=Maryland's National Register Properties: Holly Hill|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|website=MHT.Maryland.gov|language=en-US|access-date=August 5, 2019}} |
Morgan Hill Farm
| 100px | {{circa|1700}} | Residence | Oldest part built between 1670 and 1700. |
Sands House
| | {{circa|1700s}} | Residence | Unconfirmed date of construction. Dendrochronology points to a date as early as 1681, but other sources point toward 1739. Historical marker inscribed with a {{circa|1700s}} date. |
Sotterley Plantation
| 100px | 1702 | Museum | Popular public historic interpretation and living history exhibits |
Cedar Park
| 100px | 1702 | Residence | Date was ascertained through dendrochronology. |
Cloverfields
| | 1705 | Residential | Dendrochronological analysis has been able to date a number of the key construction phases.{{cite web|author=Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory|title=The Tree-Ring Dating of Cloverfields, Wye Mills, Maryland|url=https://www.dendrochronology.com/CFMDx1.html|website=Dendrochronology.net|access-date=August 14, 2024}} |
Rehoboth Presbyterian Church
| 100px | 1706; 1888; 1954–1955 | Religious | Oldest Presbyterian Church in continuous use in the United States{{cite web|last1=Hill|first1=Ann|last2=Snyderman |first2=Lois|title=Rehoboth Presbyterian Church|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-257.pdf |website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|language=en-US|access-date=December 4, 2018}} |
Old Queen Anne's County Courthouse
| 100px | 1708 | Government | |
Carvill Hall
| 100px | 1694–1709 | Residence | |
All Hallows Church
| 100px | 1710 | Religious | |
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
| 100px | 1713 | Religious | Associated vestry house, erected in 1766, is one of two that survive in the state (the other being at St. George's Church at Perryman). |
Melwood Park
| 100px | Prince George's County, Maryland | Residence | Originally thought to date to 1720s, but dendrochronology moved it back over a decade. |
Shiplap House
| 100px | {{circa|1715}} | Tavern/store | One of the oldest buildings in Annapolis' colonial district. |
Sarum
| 100px | 1717 | Residence | Constructed spring–summer 1717. Previously believed to be of 17th century origin.{{cite web|last=Stone|first=Garry Wheeler|title=THE KEY-YEAR DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL PATTERN FOR THE OAKS OF MARYLAND'S WESTERN SHORE 1570-1980|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/Charles/CH-15.pdf|website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|language=en-US|access-date=April 19, 2019}} A shed on the site was built in 1736. |
Richland Farm
| 100px | 1719; 1920 | Residence | Large addition to the rear added in 1920. |
Ocean Hall
| 100px | 1719 | Residence | Date was ascertained through dendrochronology. |
Bellefields
| 100px | {{circa|1720}} | Residence | |
Presbury Meetinghouse
| 100px | Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland | 1720 | Religious | |
Sudley
| 100px | 1720–1730 | Residence | |
Burch House
| | 1720–1730 | Residence | |
Rich Hill
| | 1720–1740 | Residence | |
Charles Carroll House
| | 1721 | Residence | One of 15 surviving birthplaces of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. |
White House Farm
| 100px | 1721; 1831 | Residence | Original section built in 1721. |
Anne Arundel County Free School
| 100px | 1724 | School | Only surviving school built in response to the Maryland Free School Act of 1723. |
East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse
| 100px | 1724; 1752 | Meetinghouse | Brick portion burned in 1749; rebuilt and enlarged in 1752, with the original brick walls remaining |
Preston-on-the-Patuxent
| 100px | 1725 | Residence | Originally thought to date to 1651 |
Marshall Hall
| 100px | 1725 | Residence | Earliest portioned built in 1725, with several additions later on. Severely damaged by fire sometime after 1980. A small brick building near it built around 1760. |
Salisbury Plantation
| | 1725 | Residence | |
Great House
| 100px | 1725–1750 | Residence | Built during second quarter of 18th century. |
Rockburn
| | 1727 | Residence | |
Doughoregan Manor
| 100px | 1727; 1832 | Residence | Earliest portioned built in 1727, enlarged and remodeled in 1832. |
St. Luke's Church
| 100px | {{circa|1729-1732}} | Religious | |
Yarmouth
| | {{circa|1730s}} | Residence | |
Larkin's Hundred
| 100px | {{circa|1730}} | Residence | Traditionally said to be built in 1704, more likely built second half of 18th century. |
Bishopton
| 100px | {{circa|1730}} | Residence | |
Hopkins-Matthews House
| | {{circa|1730}} | Residence | |
Kingston
| 100px | {{circa|1730}} | Residence | |
Readbourne
| 100px | {{circa|1730}}; 1791; 1948 | Residence | Center block from 1730, south wing build in 1791. North wing was built in 1948. |
Hopewell
| 100px | 1730–1750 | Residence | |
Christ Church
| 100px | 1732 | Religious | One of the oldest Episcopal church buildings in Maryland. |
Rigbie House
| 100px | {{circa|1732–1750}} | Residence | |
Bowlingly
| 100px | 1733; 1817; 1954 | Residence | Severely damaged in the War of 1812 by British forces. Enlarged in 1954. |
Williams' Conquest
| | 1733; 1825; 1850; 1968 | Residence | |
St. Paul's Parish Church
| 100px | {{circa|1733–1735}}; 1769; 1793; 1921 | Religious | |
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
| 100px | 1733 | Religious | |
Old Treasury Building
| 100px | 1735 | Government | Oldest government building in Annapolis |
Bennett's Adventure
| 100px | {{circa|1735}} | Residence | |
Belvoir
| 100px | {{circa|1736}} | Residence | Earliest portion could date to 17th century. |
Reynold's Tavern
| 100px | 1737 | Tavern | |
Valley Cottage
| 100px | 1737–1776 | Residence | Situated on original plot from 1737, unknown when it was actually built. |
Jonas Green House
| 100px | 1738 | Residence | |
Belmont Estate
| 100px | 1738 | Residence | |
Ogle Hall
| 100px | 1739 | Residence | |
Reward-Tilden's Farm
| 100px | {{circa|1740–1749}} | Residence | Built in the 1740s |
Hager House
| 100px | 1740 | Residence | Built by Jonathan Hager, the founder of Hagerstown, and the oldest building in Washington County |
Friendship
| 100px | 1740 | Residence | |
Robinson House
| 100px | 1740 | Residence | |
Worthington House
| 100px | {{circa|1740}} | Residence | |
Best Endeavor
| 100px | 1740; 1785 | Residence | East portion of house added on in 1785. |
Bull-Barrow House
| | {{circa|1740}} | Residence | |
Deer Park House
| | {{circa|1740–1741}} | Residence | |
Belair Mansion
| 100px | {{circa|1740–1745}} | Residence | |
Waddy House
| | {{circa|1740–1760}} | Residence | |
Patrick Creagh House
| 100px | 1741 | Residence | |
St. Thomas Manor
| 100px | 1741 | Residence | Connected chapel built in 1798 |
Pemberton Hall
| 100px | 1741 | Residence | |
South River Club
| 100px | 1742 | Clubhouse | |
St. John's College (McDowell Hall)
| | 1742 | School | |
Buckland
| | {{circa|1742}} | Residence | |
Clifton
| 100px | {{circa|1742}} | Residence | |
Darnall's Chance
| 100px | {{circa|1742}} | Residence | |
St. Thomas' Church
| 100px | {{circa|1742–1745}}; 1859; 1888; 1905 | Religious | |
William Hilleary House
| 100px | {{circa|1742–1746}} | Residence | |
St. Thomas Church
| 100px | 1743 | Religious | |
Priest Neal's Mass House and Mill Site
| 100px | {{circa|1743}} | Religious | One of the oldest extant buildings associated with the Catholic Church in America. |
Obligation
| 100px | 1743; 1827 | Residence | |
William Barroll House
| | {{circa|1743}} | Residence | |
Bohemia Farm
| 100px | {{circa|1743–1745}} | Residence | |
Woodview
| 100px | 1744; 1820 | Residence | |
Middleham Chapel
| |Lusby, Maryland |1744 |Religious |Built in 1748, replacing an earlier building erected around 1684 |
John Churchman House
| 100px | 1745; 1785 | Residence | |
Araby
| 100px | 1746 | Residence | "Dendrochronological analysis has shown that one of the timbers used to construct the original building was felled in the spring of 1746."{{cite web|author=Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory|title=The Tree-Ring Dating of Araby, Indian Head, Maryland|url=https://www.dendrochronology.com/ARMDx1.html|website=Dendrochronology.net|access-date=August 14, 2024}} |
Mercer Brown House
| 100px | 1746 | Residence | |
Derr House
| | 1790 - 1795 | Residence | |
Custom House
| 100px | 1746 | Residence | |
Bostwick
| 100px | 1746 | Residence | |
Broom's Bloom
| 100px | 1747 | Residence | |
Christ Church
| 100px | 1747 | Religious | Begun in 1747, replacing an earlier frame building. |
Beatty-Cramer House
| 100px | 1748; 1855 | Residence | Addition constructed in 1855. Dendrochronological research to date the structure is ongoing. Oldest standing home in Frederick County, MD. | |
All Hallows Episcopal Church
| 100px | 1748 | Religious | |
London Town Publik House
| 100px | {{circa|1745–1750}} | Tavern | |
Wilton
| | {{circa|1749–1770}}; 1800 | Residence | |
Perry Point Mansion House
| 100px | {{circa|1750}} | Residence | |
Stump Family Grist Mill
| 100px | {{circa|1750}} | Mill | |
Buckingham House
| 100px | {{circa|1750}} | Residence | School is a later addition to the attached house. |
Howard Lodge
| | {{circa|1750}} | Residence | |
Indian Queen Tavern and Black's Store
| 100px | 1750 | Hotel/Retail | |
Judge John Brice House
| 100px | 1750 | Residence | Could've been built even earlier, possibly in 1739. |
Rosehill
| 100px | 1750 | Residence | |
The Homestead
| | 1750 | Residence | |
Rodgers Tavern
| 100px | 1750 | Hotel | |
Chimney House
| | 1750 | Residence | |
Poplar Hill
| 100px | 1750 | Residence | |
Mount Pleasant
| 100px | {{circa|1750}} | Residence | |
Piscataway House
| | {{circa|1750}}; 1932 | Residence | Relocated from its original location in Piscataway, Maryland in the 1930s. Disassembled and rebuilt on present location. |
Potter Hall
| 100px | 1750; 1808; 1930 | Residence | Central section built in 1750, 2 1⁄2-story Flemish bond brick structure built about 1808. Single story kitchen wing built in 1930. |
Joshua's Meadows
| 100px | 1750; 1937 | Residence | |
White Swan Tavern
| | {{circa|1750}} | Tavern | |
Piscataway Tavern
| | {{circa|1750}}; 1810 | Tavern | Larger Federal addition from 1810, replacing original structure. |
Wyoming
| 100px | {{circa|1750}}; 1800; 1850 | Residence | Connecting two-bay section built in 1850. |
Waterloo
| 100px | {{circa|1750–1760}} | Residence | |
Ellerslie
| 100px | {{circa|1750–1765}} | Residence | |
Rose Hill
| 100px | {{circa|1750–1775}} | Residence | |
Elk Landing
| 100px | {{circa|1750–1775}} | Residence | |
Maidstone
| 100px | 1751 | Residence | Previously believed to date to the 17th century, a dendrochronology survey determined time period of fall-winter 1751.{{cite web|last=Stone|first=Garry Wheeler|title=THE KEY-YEAR DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL PATTERN FOR THE OAKS OF MARYLAND'S WESTERN SHORE 1570-1980|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/Calvert/CT-5.pdf|website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|language=en-US|access-date=April 19, 2019}} |
Blunt Farm and Granite Quarries
| | 1751 | Farm | |
Kitterman–Buckey Farm
| | 1752 | Farm | Springhouse and Cabin on property also date from 1752 |
Rising Sun Inn
| 100px | 1753 | Residence | |
Larkin's Hill Farm
| 100px | 1753 | Residence | |
Rich Hill
| 100px | {{circa|1753}} | Residence | |
Knocks Folly
| 100px | {{circa|1753}} | Residence | |
Wye Mill
| 100px | 1753-1754 | Mill | Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the frame building was constructed from timbers felled in the spring of 1751 and the winter of 1753/4, suggesting that the building was constructed in the winter of 1753/4 or shortly thereafter.{{cite web|author=Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory|title=The Tree-Ring Dating of Old Wye Mill, Wye Mills, Maryland|url=https://www.dendrochronology.com/WMMDx1.html|website=Dendrochronology.net|access-date=August 14, 2024}} |
Portland Manor
| 100px | 1755 | Residence | Date was ascertained through dendrochronology |
St. James Church
| 100px | 1755 | Religious | Bell tower added in 1884. |
The Ridge
| 100px | 1755 | Residence | |
Tulip Hill
| 100px | 1755–1756 | Residence | |
George Washington House
| 100px | {{circa|1755–1765}} | Tavern | |
Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site
| 100px | 1757 | Residence | |
Schifferstadt
| 100px | 1758 | Residence | Oldest surviving building in Frederick city. Open for tours on weekend afternoons from April through November. |
Maynadier House
| | {{circa|1759}} | Residence | Right wing of house built in 1759. |
Legg's Dependence
| 100px | 1760 | Residence | Built in several stages beginning around 1760–80. Enlarged to present form during the second quarter of the 19th century. |
Mattapax
| 100px | 1760; 1949 | Residence | Restored in 1949, a wing was replaced by a newly constructed brick wing. |
Howard's Inheritance
| 100px | 1760 | Residence | |
Swansbury
| 100px | {{circa|1760}}; 1775 | Residence | West section dates back to {{circa|1760}}. Main structure built in 1780. |
Daffin House
| | {{circa|1760}}; 1780 | Residence | Brick wing built {{circa|1760}}. Main structure built in 1780. |
Primrose Hill
| 100px | ca. 1760 | Residence | |
LaGrange
| 100px | {{circa|1760}} | Residence | |
Cox-Davis-Barnes House
| | {{circa|1760}} | Residence | |
Lexon
| 100px | {{circa|1760}} | Residence | |
Lansdowne
| 100px | {{circa|1760}}; 1823 | Residence | Smaller building is from 1760. Larger building built in 1823. |
Harmony Hall
| 100px | {{circa|1760–1769}} | Residence | Local tradition has it being built in 1723. |
Rock United Presbyterian Church
| 100px | 1761 | Religious | Remodeled to its current Victorian Gothic influenced appearance in 1872, and 1900. Also on the property is a stone Session House originally constructed in 1762. |
Pleasant Hill
| | 1761 | Residence | Earliest portion dates back to 1761. Added onto until about 1848. |
Hopeful Unity
| 100px | 1761 | Residence | May encapsulate an even older structure. |
Bush Tavern
| | 1761-1762 | Tavern | "Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the original structure was built from timbers felled in the winter of 1761/2." |
Upton Scott House
| 100px | 1762 | Residence | |
Ratcliffe Manor
| 100px | 1762 | Residence | One of the best examples of early Georgian style plantation houses on Maryland's Eastern Shore.{{cite web |title=T-42 Ratcliffe Manor |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust |url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/Talbot/T-42.pdf |access-date=April 18, 2023}} |
Acton Hall
| | 1762 | Residence | |
La Grange
| 100px | {{circa|1763}} | Residence | |
Hockley
| | {{circa|1763}} | Residence | |
St. James Episcopal Church
| 100px | 1763 | Religious | Replaced an earlier structure dating to 1695. Oldest documented gravestone in Maryland (dated 1665) is found in the churchyard.{{cite web|last1=Morgan|first1=William|last2=Miller|first2=Nancy|title=St. James Church |url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-123.pdf|website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|language=en-US|access-date=December 4, 2018}} |
Paca House and Garden
| 100px | 1763 | Residence | |
Michael Cresap House
| 100px | 1764 | Residence | |
Peggy Stewart House
| 100px | 1764 | Residence | |
Mitchell House
| 100px | 1764 | Residence | |
Long Island Farm
| | 1764 | Farm | |
Galloway Mansion
| | 1764 | Residence | Moved from its original location at Easton, Maryland in 2019. |
John Ridout House
| 100px | 1764–1765 | Residence | |
Cross Manor
| 100px | "Prior to 1765" | Residence | |
Whitehall
| 100px | {{circa|1765}} | Residence | |
Sycamore Cottage
| 100px | {{circa|1765}} | Residence | |
Market Master's House
| 100px | {{circa|1765}} | Residence | |
Robert Long House
| | 1765 | Residence | Oldest surviving residential structure in Baltimore City |
Manokin Presbyterian Church
| 100px | 1765 | Religious | Georgian nave constructed in 1765, vestry and tower added in 1872, and 1888, respectively{{cite web|last=James |first=Pamela|title=Manokin Presbyterian Church|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-413.pdf |website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|language=en-US|access-date=December 4, 2018}} |
Fugate House
| | Residence | |
Branton Manor
| 100px | {{circa|1766}} | Residence | Oldest sections date to 1766. Middle portion was a later addition. |
St. George's Parish Vestry House
| 100px | 1766 | Religious | |
Stagg Hall
| 100px | 1766-1767 | Residence | "A dendrochronological study was undertaken on the building in October 2015. Two of the timbers that were sampled were successfully dated, with one timber containing complete sapwood that provided a felling date of the winter of 1766/7."{{cite web|author=Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory|title=The Tree-Ring Dating of Stagg Hall, Port Tobacco, Maryland|url=https://www.dendrochronology.com/STAGx1.html|website=Dendrochronology.net|access-date=August 14, 2024}} |
Brice House
| 100px | 1766–1773 | Residence | |
Cooke's Range at Pope Farm
| | 1767 | Residence | "Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the original three-bay structure was built in the winter of 1766/7 or shortly thereafter."{{cite web|author=Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory|title=The Tree-Ring Dating of Cooke's Range at pope Farm, Derwood, Montgomery County, Maryland|url=https://www.dendrochronology.com/cprx1.html|website=Dendrochronology.net|access-date=August 14, 2024}} |
Mount Clare
|Baltimore, Maryland | 1767 | Residence | Oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore, Maryland. |
Spye Park
| | 1767 | Residence | |
Ringgold-Pearce House
| | 1767 | Residence | |
St. John's Episcopal Church
| 100px | 1767 | Religious | Located in the Broad Creek Historic District. The building is the 4th iteration of the church since the original was erected in 1695. |
Tubman Chapel, St. Mary's Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church
| 100px | 1767–1770 | Religious | Also used as a school house after later Victorian Era church was built across the road.{{cite web|last=Touart |first=Paul|title=St. Mary's Star-of-the-Sea Catholic Church|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-413.pdf|website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|language=en-US|access-date=December 4, 2018}} |
Shepherd's Delight
| 100px | 1767–1783; 1810 | Residence | Built between 1767 and 1783. |
Maxwell Hall
| | c. 1767 | Residence | |
Long Hill
| 100px | 1767 | Residence | |
Sophia's Dairy
| 100px | 1768 | Residence | |
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
| | 1768 | Religious | |
Drury-Austin House
| 100px | 1768 | Residence | |
Harmony Hall
| 100px | 1769 | Residence | Located in the Broad Creek Historic District. It was originally known as Battersea, and overlooked the colonial port of Aire. |
Joseph Fiery House
| | 1769 | Residence | Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the original structure was built from timbers felled in the winter of 1767/8 and the winter of 1768/9. |
Widehall
| 100px | 1769 | Residence | |
Chase–Lloyd House
| 100px | 1769–1774 | Residence | |
Mitchell House
| 100px | {{circa|1769–1781}} | Residence | |
Artisan's House
| 100px | {{circa|1700s}} | Residence | Date of construction unknown, used as barracks during the American Revolutionary War. |
Hazelwood
| 100px | {{circa|1770s}}; 1800; 1860 | Residence | |
Greenfields
| 100px | 1770 | Residence | Possibly built earlier, 1740–1760. |
Truman's Place
| | 1770 | Residence | |
Colonel Joseph Wood House
| 100px | 1770 | Residence | |
Retreat
| 100px | {{circa|1770}} | Residence | |
Handsell
| 100px | {{circa|1770}} | Residence | |
Mill Green Miller's House
| 100px | {{circa|1770}} | Residence | |
Hebron
| 100px | {{circa|1770}} | Residence | |
London Coffee House
| | Baltimore, Maryland | {{circa|1770–1772}} | Public | |
Haberdeventure
| 100px | 1771 | Residence | |
Mary's Mount
| 100px | 1771 | Residence | Earliest portion built in 1771. Enlarged in early 19th century. |
Maryland Inn
| 100px | {{circa|1772}} | Hotel | |
Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse
| 100px | 1772 | Meeting House | Interior destroyed by fire in 1934. |
Maryland State House
| 100px | 1772–1797 | Government | Oldest state house in continuous use in the United States. |
Perry Hall Mansion
| 100px | 1773; 1826 | Residence | Originally constructed in 1773, badly damaged in fire in 1826. Only half of main section and west wing were saved. |
The Robert Johnson House
| | 1773 | Hotel | |
Preacher House
| | 1773 | Residence | |
Round About Hills
| 100px | 1773 | Residence | |
Gunpowder Meetinghouse
| 100px | Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland | {{circa|1773}} | Religious | Unknown if it is actually from 1773, but no evidence against it, as well. |
Chesterville Brick House
| 100px | {{circa|1773}} | Commercial | Moved from its original location in 1973. |
Ridout Row
| | 1773–1774 | Residence | |
Hammond–Harwood House
| 100px | 1774 | Residential | Only existing work of colonial academic architecture that was principally designed from a plate in Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture). |
Catoctin Furnace
| 100px | 1774 | Iron Forge | Provided ammunition for American Revolutionary War |
Hinchingham
| 100px | 1774 | Residence | |
Sexton's House
| | {{circa|1774–1793}} | Residence | Sexton's house is the only structure that dates back to 1700s. |
Reed's Creek Farm
| 100px | 1775 | Residence | |
Fat Oxen
| 100px | {{circa|1775}} | Residence | |
Little Elk Farm
| 100px | {{circa|1775–1800}} | Residence | |
Governor Calvert House
| | 1776 | Hotel | Original house burned in 1764, what was remaining of that was built into the current building. Original building dating back to early 18th century. |
Mount Friendship
| | 1776; 1821 | Residence | |
Bayly House
| | {{circa|1784}} | Residence | Oldest home in Cambridge. Dated with dendrochronology{{cite web|author=Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory|title=The Tree-Ring Dating of Bayly House and Outbuildings, Cambridge, Maryland|url=https://www.dendrochronology.com/bymd.html|website=Dendrochronology.net|access-date=August 14, 2024}} |
Oldest by county
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County
! Building ! Image ! Location ! Dated ! Use ! Notes |
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Calvert County
| Brooke Place Manor | 92x92px | 1652 | Residence | |
Dorchester County
| Old Trinity Church, Maryland | |100px | Church Creek, Dorchester County, Maryland | 1675 | Religious | Church building in continuous use; as such, oldest in the US. |
Talbot County
| 100px | 1682 | Religious | Oldest Quaker meeting house in the United States. |
Prince George's County County
| Spring House, Ft. Lincoln Cemetery | | Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Prince George's County, Maryland | 1683 | Springhouse |
Baltimore County
| 100px | Stevenson, Baltimore County, Maryland | {{circa|1695}} | Fort | |
Anne Arundel County
| 100px | Friendship, Anne Arundel County, Maryland | 1698 (fall or winter); 1713; {{circa|1730}} | Residence | Primitive, two-room, {{frac|1|1|2}}-story frame house at its incarnation. Two subsequent additions/upgrades performed, including a full structural brick encasement in {{circa|1730}}. |
St. Mary's County
| 100px | 1702 | Museum | Popular public historic interpretation and living history exhibits |
Somerset County
| Rehoboth Presbyterian Church | 100px | 1706; 1888; 1954–1955 | Religious | Oldest Presbyterian Church in continuous use in the United States |
Queen Anne's County
| Old Queen Anne's County Courthouse | 100px | 1708 | Governmental | |
Kent County
| 100px | 1694–1709 | Residence | |
Charles County
| Sarum | 100px | 1717 | Residence | Constructed spring–summer 1717. Previously believed to be of 17th century origin. |
Howard County
| 100px | 1719; 1920 | Residence | Large addition to the rear added in 1920. |
Harford County
| 100px | Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland | 1720 | Religious | |
Cecil County
| East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse | 100px | 1724; 1752 | Meetinghouse | Brick portion burned in 1749; rebuilt and enlarged in 1752, with the original brick walls remaining |
Wicomico County
| St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church | 100px | 1733 | Religious | |
Washington County
| 100px | 1740 | Residence | Built by Jonathan Hager, the founder of Hagerstown |
Montgomery County
| Clifton | 100px | {{circa|1742}} | Residence | |
Frederick County
| | 1746 | Residence | |
Worcester County
| All Hallows Episcopal Church | 100px | 1748 | Religious | |
Caroline County
| | {{circa|1760}}; 1780 | Residence | Brick wing built {{circa|1760}}. Main structure built in 1780. |
Allegany County
| 100px | 1764 | Residence | |
Baltimore City
| | 1765 | Residence | |
Carroll County
| 100px | {{circa|1766}} | Residence | Oldest sections date to 1766. Middle portion was a later addition. |
Garrett County
| 100px | 1797; 1890 | Grist mill | |
Oldest by type
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Type
! Building ! Image ! Location ! Dated ! Notes |
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Residence
| Brooke Place Manor | 92x92px | 1652 | This is primarily an 1840 structure; that year a "completely new interior" was installed; "all that remains of the first (1652) house are the (lower part of the) exterior walls." The original house was a Flemish bond brick structure of 1-1/2 stories with a very steep A-roof. The current 1840 building is a 2-1/2 story Greek revival structure with a gently sloping A-roof on 100 remaining acres of the original 2,100 acres granted to Robert Brooke, Sr in 1649. |
Residence
| 100px | 1698 (fall or winter); 1713; {{circa|1730}} | Primitive, two-room, {{frac|1|1|2}}-story frame house at its incarnation. Two subsequent additions/upgrades performed, including a full structural brick encasement in {{circa|1730}}.{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?NRID=59|title=Maryland's National Register Properties: Holly Hill|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust|website=MHT.Maryland.gov|language=en-US|access-date=August 5, 2019}} |
Church
| Old Trinity Church (Church Creek) | 100px | 1675 | Church building in continuous use; as such, oldest in the US. |
Quaker meeting house
| 100px | 1682 | Oldest Quaker meetinghouse in the United States |
Government building
| Old Queen Anne's County Courthouse | 100px | 1708 | |
Barn
| 100px | 1834 | Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the barn was built from timbers felled in the winter of 1833/4. |
Lighthouse
| 100px | Pooles Island off Aberdeen Proving Ground | 1825 | Oldest surviving lighthouse in Maryland |
Shot tower
| 100px | 1828 | Only surviving shot tower in Maryland, third oldest in the U.S. |
Train station
| 100px | 1830 | Oldest surviving passenger train station in the U.S. |
Synagogue
| 100px | 1840 | Oldest surviving synagogue building in Maryland, third oldest in the U.S. |
Mosque
| Islamic Society of Baltimore | | 1982 | Oldest purpose-built mosque in Maryland; others have existed for decades |