Porto Bello (Drayden, Maryland)

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

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| name = Porto Bello

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| image = Porto Bello HABS MD1.jpg

| caption = HABS photograph of Porto Bello

| location = MD 244 E of Drayden, Drayden, Maryland

| coordinates = {{coord|38|10|26|N|76|27|7|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Maryland#USA

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| added = April 26, 1972

| refnum = 72001486 {{NRISref|2008a}}

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Porto Bello is a historic home located at Drayden, St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a {{frac|1|1|2}}-story gambrel-roofed Flemish bond brick house built after 1742. It is located on a portion of the first grant of land recorded in the province of Maryland: West St. Mary's Manor, one of the nine original Maryland Manors. Its name commemorates the Battle of Porto Bello (1739).{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-87.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Porto Bello |date=December 1971|accessdate=2016-01-01 |author=Mrs. Preston Parish |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.