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HO-333

Ellicott Cottage Lots 3 and 4 (Dennis Mulligan's Two Brick

Houses, Mulligan's Brick Duplex House)

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H0-333 Mulligan's Brick Duplex House 3793 Mulligan's Hill Lane, Ellicott City Private

Description: The Mulligan's Brick Duplex House is banked into the hill on the southwest and faces northeast toward the railroad tracks, and is set only about 30 feet from the tracks. The building is a 1 Yzstory, four-bay by one-bay structure with a rubble stone foundation, though on the northeast elevation the stones are roughly squared and brought to course. The walls above are of seven, eight, and nine-to-one common bond pressed brick, and are two wythes thick. There is a gable roof with standing-seam metal and a northwest-southeast ridge. There is a brick chimney centered on the ridge. The northeast elevation foundation has a doorway in the east bay and the north bay. The first story has six-over-six sash and the attic story has three-over-three sash. There is a brick cornice of three corbelled courses. The southwest elevation, on the first story, has a doorway in the west bay and the south bay. The basement of each unit is one large room with an enclosed stairway and pantry walled off on the southwest end and a fireplace centered on the partition wall. The first story is two rooms divided by a stud wall that runs northwestsoutheast. There is winder stair in the south comer of the southwest room, and the northeast room has a stove chimney in the south comer. The attic story plan matches the first story.

Significance: Mulligan's Brick Duplex House was apparently part of the property of Jonathan Ellicott & Sons, which included the flour and saw mills on the Baltimore County side of the Patapsco and much of present-day Ellicott City. The company got too deep into debt and had to tum over their assets to trustee Robert Mickle. Mickle sold "those four lots which are distinguished on the sale plat ofEllicott's property as cottage lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4 ... containing seven acres and sixteen square perches ... " along with much other property, to Samuel Ellicott of Jonathan in 1841, and Ellicott sold cottage lots 3 and 4, totaling 3 Yz acres, later in 1841 to Bernard Campbell In 1842 he and his neighbor, Dr. Allen Thomas, jointly laid out a road that curved through their properties, parts of which survive as Mulligan Hill Road and Ross Road. In 1851 Campbell leased a small part of cottage lot 4 to Dennis Mulligan, and the indenture described a frame house. Mulligan was a foreman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad early in his working life and apparently lived on the lower part of Main Street in Ellicott City in the 1850s. In 1859 Campbell's widow sold the property, "improved by four cottages, with fine springs, orchard, gardens, &c." to Professor John Veith of the Patapsco Female Institute. Veith almost immediately sold the half-acre parcel to the east of the road, which included the house leased by Dennis Mulligan, to Mulligan for $1,000. Mulligan was likely responsible for rebuilding in brick, probably in the 1860s. The building was certainly standing in 1877. Local tradition states that the B & 0 Railroad Station Master in Ellicott City lived in the brick duplex, though this has not been confirmed. Other than the use of brick the duplexes are fairly typical of workers housing. The only exception to that is the kitchen in the basement, and this is likely because the building is banked into a hill.

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Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

1. Name of Property (indicate preferred name)

historic Mulligan' s Brick Duplex House

other

2. Location street and number 3793 Mulligan's Hill Lane

city, town Ellicott City

county Howard

3. Owner of Property (give names and mailing addresses of all owners)

name Historic Ellicott Properties, Inc.

street and number PO Box 396

city, town Ellicott City state MD

4. Location of Legal Description

Inventory No. H0-333

not for publication

vicinity

telephone

zip code 21041

courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Howard County Courthouse liber 617 folio 481

city, town Ellicott City tax map 251 tax parcel 137

5. Primary Location of Additional Data ___ Contributing Resource in National Register District ___ Contributing Resource in Local Historic District ___ Determined Eligible for the National Register/Maryland Register ___ Determined Ineligible for the National Register/Maryland Register ___ Recorded by HABS/HAER ___ Historic Structure Report or Research Report at MHT ___ Other: ___________ _

6. Classification

Category __ district _X_building(s) __ structure __ site __ object

Ownership __ public __x_private __ both

Current Function __ agriculture __ landscape __ commerce/trade __ recreation/culture __ defense __ religion __ domestic __ education __ funerary __ government __ health care __ industry

__ social __ transportation __ work in progress __ unknown __x_vacant/not in use __ other:

tax ID number

Resource Count Contributing

1

0 0 0

Noncontributing 0 buildings o sites

-"'-0 __ structures -~o __ objects --"-o __ Total

Number of Contributing Resources previously listed in the Inventory

I

7. Description

Condition

excellent _good

fair

x_ deteriorated ruins altered


Prepare both a one paragraph summary and a comprehensive description of the resource and its various elements as it exists today.

Summary: Mulligan' s Brick Duplex House is banked into the hill on the southwest and faces northeast toward the railroad tracks, and is set only about 30 feet from the tracks. The building is a 1 Yz-story, four-bay by one-bay structure with a rubble stone foundation, though on the northeast elevation the stones are roughly squared and brought to course. The walls above are of seven, eight, and nine-to-one common bond pressed brick, and are two wythes thick. There is a gable roof with standing-seam metal and a northwest-southeast ridge. There is a brick chimney centered on the ridge. The northeast elevation foundation has a doorway in the east bay and the north bay. The first story has six-over-six sash and the attic story has three-over-three sash. There is a brick cornice of three corbelled courses. The southwest elevation, on the first story, has a doorway in the west bay and the south bay. The basement of each unit is one large room with an enclosed stairway and pantry walled off on the southwest end and a fireplace centered on the partition wall. The first story is two rooms divided by a stud wall that runs northwestsoutheast. There is winder stair in the south comer of the southwest room, and the northeast room has a stove chimney in the south comer. The attic story plan matches the first story.

Description: Mulligan' s Brick Duplex House is located at 3793 Mulligan's Hill Lane in Ellicott City, in northeastern Howard County, Maryland. The building is banked into the hill on the southwest and faces northeast toward the railroad tracks, and is set only about 30 feet from the tracks. It is set into a recess in the hill, but it is not clear if this is natural or a man-made cut. The building is a 1 Yz-story, four-bay by one-bay structure with a rubble stone foundation, though on the northeast elevation the stones are roughly squared and brought to course. The walls above are of seven, eight, and nine-to-one common bond pressed brick, and are two wythes thick. There is a gable roof with standing-seam metal and a northwest-southeast ridge. There is a brick chimney centered on the ridge.

Exterior The northeast elevation foundation has a doorway in the east bay with a bull-nose frame and a stone lintel. The east-center bay has a boarded-up window with a wood sill, bull-nose frame, and a stone lintel. The north-center bay is identical to the east-center bay. The north bay matches the east bay. There is the ghost of a four-bay hipped-roof porch below the first-story window sills. The first story has four windows with the remains of wood sills, bull-nose frames, and six-over-six sash. There are splayed brick jack arches. The attic story has four three-over-three sash that otherwise match the first story. There is a brick cornice of three corbelled courses.

The southeast elevation has a small window opening in the south bay of the basement, with a stone lintel. The first and attic stories have no openings.


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The southwest elevation, on the first story, has a doorway in the west bay that is missing its frame and jack arch. The west-center bay has the remains of a six-over-six sash with a wood sill and bull-nose frame, but the jack arch and the outer wythe of brick above it have fallen out. Behind the jack arches are wood lintels supporting the inner wythe of brick. The south-center bay is the same as the west-center bay, and the brick wall to the south of it is gone. The south bay south jamb of the doorway survives. The upper story has four window openings like the northeast elevation, but has no remains of sash. The brick between the two south bays and below the sills is gone, and much of the wall is bowing out. The stair header rests in a pocket on the inner wythe of brick and has an iron angle fastened to the top of the header, apparently to hold it in the pocket and tie the building together in the center. The south-center bay window frame is gone, but the west brick jamb survives. There are three corbelled courses of brick in the cornice.

The northwest elevation basement has a small window opening to the west, with a stone lintel and a rowlock course above it because the lintel is slightly shorter than the rest of the stone wall. The first and attic stories have no openings.

Interior The southeast unit basement is one large room with an enclosed stairway and pantry walled off on the southwest end by a vertical-board wall ofrandom-width, tongue-and-grooved boards. The floor is gone and the sleepers are mostly rotted; they run northwest-southeast in both the basement and first story. There was peg rail on the southeast wall, at the east comer, just inside the doorway. There is a fireplace centered on the northwest wall that is missing its mantel. It has a splayed brick jack arch, and splayed brick jambs to the firebox. The stairs have collapsed, but there was a winder at the bottom and they ascended to the southeast. The pantry contains a shelf set above the doorway on the northeast wall, one below it to the north of the doorway, and the ghost of a third shelf below it. The centers of the shelves are supported by a triangular bracket. The partition wall between the southeast and northwest halves is brick, and it is barely toothed into the rear (southwest) wall. The ceiling has sawn lath and the baseboard is plain. The door frame is constructed with cut nails.

The southeast unit first story was unsafe to enter. It appears to be a mirror image of the first story of the northwest unit. The second story also could not be accessed.

The northwest unit basement is an identical mirror image to the southeast unit, but the mantel survives. It is of wood and has plain pilaster strips and a plain frieze. There is a beveled bed mould. The splayed brick jack arch has an iron lintel beneath it, yet it is still sagging. There is plain architrave that is mitered at the comers on the windows and doors. Only the top shelf in the pantry survives.



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The northwest unit first story is two rooms divided by a stud wall that runs northwest-southeast. The southwest room has a closet made of boards built against the northwest wall. There is plain baseboard and sawn lath with plaster. The stairway is enclosed with beaded-edge vertical boards and has a matching door. There is a winder at the bottom, and then it ascends to the northwest along the southwest wall. The stairs are mostly open to the basement, with a thin rectangular newel post and railing on the northeast side; the railing is nailed to the sides of the board enclosure. The joists on the attic story are sash-sawn and run northwest-southeast. There are doors lying loose in the room that have four panels with sunken fields and no panel moulds. The window sash have 8-inch by 10-inch lights and ovolo muntins. The northeast room flooring was rotted and unsafe to enter. There is a stove chimney in the south corner, and a mantel centered on the southeast wall that appears to be identical to that in the basement.

The attic story has two chambers and the partition wall appears to align with that of the first story. The doorway between the two chambers has a four-panel door with sunken fields and no panel moulds. The balustrade at the top of the stairs has rectangular-in-plan balusters that are nailed to the sides of the railings. The brick partition wall steps back about 2 inches between the first and attic stories, but is brick on the upper story. The ceiling follows the pitch of the rafters and a long collar beam. The northeast chamber was too deteriorated to enter.

8. Significance Period

1600-1699 1700-1799

x 1800-1899 1900-1999 2000-

Specific dates

Areas of Significance

_ agriculture _ archeology K architecture

art commerce communications

_ community planning conservation

NIA

Construction dates c. 1860s

Evaluation for:

___ National Register


Check and justify below

economics education

_ engineering entertainment/

recreation _ ethnic heritage _ exploration/

settlement

health/medicine _ performing arts _ industry _ philosophy

invention _ politics/government _ landscape architecture _ religion

law science literature _ social history

_ maritime history _ transportation _ military other:

Architect/Builder N/ A

____ Maryland Register X not evaluated

Prepare a one-paragraph summary statement of significance addressing applicable criteria, followed by a narrative discussion of the history of the resource and its context. (For compliance projects, complete evaluation on a DOE Form - see manual.)

Summary: Mulligan's Brick Duplex House was apparently part of the property of Jonathan Ellicott & Sons, which included the flour and saw mills on the Baltimore County side of the Patapsco and much of present-day Ellicott City. The company got too deep into debt and had to turn over their assets to trustee Robert Mickle. Mickle sold "those four lots which are distinguished on the sale plat of Ellicott's property as cottage lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4 ... containing seven acres and sixteen square perches ... "along with much other property, to Samuel Ellicott of Jonathan in 1841, and Ellicott sold cottage lots 3 and 4, totaling 3 1h acres, later in 1841 to Bernard Campbell In 1842 he and his neighbor, Dr. Allen Thomas, jointly laid out a road that curved through their properties, parts of which survive as Mulligan Hill Road and Ross Road. In 1851 Campbell leased a small part of cottage lot 4 to Dennis Mulligan, and the indenture described a frame house. Mulligan was a foreman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad early in his working life and apparently lived on the lower part of Main Street in Ellicott City in the 1850s. In 1859 Campbell's widow sold the property, "improved by four cottages, with fine springs, orchard, gardens, &c." to Professor John Veith of the Patapsco Female Institute. Veith almost immediately sold the half-acre parcel to the east of the road, which included the house leased by Dennis Mulligan, to Mulligan for $1,000. Mulligan was likely responsible for rebuilding in brick, probably in the 1860s. The building was certainly standing in 1877. Local tradition states that the B & 0 Railroad Station Master in Ellicott City lived in the brick duplex, though this has not been confirmed. Other than the use of brick the duplexes are fairly typical of workers housing. The only exception to that is the kitchen in the basement, and this is likely because the building is banked into a hill.

Significance: Mulligan's Brick Duplex House was apparently part of the property of Jonathan Ellicott & Sons, which included the flour and saw mills on the Baltimore County side of the Patapsco and much of present-day Ellicott City. The company got too deep into debt and had to turn over their assets to trustee Robert Mickle, cashier of the Union Bank and treasurer, and later president, of the Baltimore and Frederick Turnpike Company, in 1839. Unfortunately, this deed is too vague to know for certain whether the brick



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duplex property was included. Mickle sold "those four lots which are distinguished on the sale plat of Ellicott's property as cottage lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4 ... containing seven acres and sixteen square perches . . . "along with much other property, to Samuel Ellicott of Jonathan in 1841, and this deed refers to the earlier one of 183 9. The sale plat has not been located, and the sale advertisement focused on the "flour mills, saw and plaster mill, [and] granite quarries" and not the lowly cottage lots. Samuel Ellicott sold cottage lots 3 and 4, totaling 3 Yz acres, later in 1841 to Bernard Campbell for $540.72. The price is generally low for two building lots of this size, though these were not prime sites because they were not upon the turnpike road. Campbell appears to have been the one who set about improving the property, though nothing more is known about him at present. In 1842 he and his neighbor, Dr. Allen Thomas, jointly laid out a road that curved through their properties, parts of which survive as Mulligan Hill Road and Ross Road. The plat that is recorded with this agreement does not show any buildings, including neighboring structures that were in existence at the time, unfortunately, but creation of the road certainly suggests that Campbell intended to make a more intensive use of the property than there had been heretofore. 1

In 1851 Campbell leased a small part of cottage lot 4 to Dennis Mulligan, and the indenture described the property as "beginning ... at the northernmost comer of the frame house erected on the southwest side of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad .... " The building was only mentioned because it served as a boundary of the property, and though it would seem most likely that it was the eastern-most of the three frame houses on the hill (H0-1120), platting out later metes and bounds indicates that it was in the location of the brick duplex, as will be seen below. The metes and bounds for this lease are for a lot that was only 20 feet, 5 inches wide by 70 feet long, including a 10 foot yard between the house and the railroad tracks. The deed suggests that the building was for only one family, was 20 feet, 5 inches wide, and was of unknown depth (though less than 60 feet, since the back comers of the lot were not comers of the building). The lack of mention of any other buildings, however, is not evidence that they did not exist at this time, since only a small portion of the parcel was being leased. Use of the term "cottage" at this time did not reflect the size of the building on the lot, or the socioeconomic)evel of the potential owner, but referred to the fact that the building was not part of a farm or other income-producing business. It may have been envisioned that these lots would be improved with moderately-sized, single family homes, but that is not the way that they developed.2

1 Anne Arundel County Land Records, WSG 24-285. John W. McGrain, From Pig Iron to Cotton Duck: A History of Manufacturing Villages in Baltimore County. (Towson, MD: Baltimore County Public Library, 1985), p. 193. Henry K. Sharp, The Patapsco River Valley: Cradle of the Industrial Revolution in Maryland. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2001 ). Baltimore Sun, 6 June 1840, p. 3, col. 4. Howard District, Anne Arundel County, Land Records, 3-221.

2 Howard District, Anne Arundel County, Land Records, WHW 11-193.



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Dennis Mulligan was a foreman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad early in his working life and apparently lived on the lower part of Main Street in Ellicott City in the 1850s, when a wall of his house was damaged by flooding of the Tiber. Mulligan was apparently getting into real estate, though whether he built any of the buildings on these cottage lots cannot be conclusively determined; most likely, he was responsible for all of them. In 1859 Campbell's widow, Ann Maria, sold the property, "improved by four cottages, with fine springs, orchard, gardens, &c." to Professor John Veith of the Patapsco Female Institute. The map of 1860 shows three buildings associated with Veith, one to the east of the road and two to the west. The eastern one of these two western buildings is probably the surviving building at 3800 Mulligan's Hill Road, and the other does not seem to have survived. The map indicates that this was two adjoining buildings. Hence, it would seem that the building to the east of the road was that mentioned in the 1851 lease and neither the other three frame houses, nor the brick house, were yet standing. Veith was a well-known organist who performed in Baltimore City and presumably taught music at the Patapsco Female Institute, but nothing more is known about him. The investment was probably a prudent one, however, since the Institute would close shortly, during the Civil War. Veith almost immediately sold the half-acre parcel to the east of the road, which included the house leased by Dennis Mulligan, to Mulligan for $1,000. The deed mentions this house and adds that it was" ... built and occupied by Patrick McLaughlin .... " Platting out the metes and bounds of this transaction places the comer of the house at the northwestern comer of the lot, in the general location of the brick duplex. Nothing more could be discovered about Patrick McLaughlin, but his house must have predated the brick duplex. The most likely explanation for the change of building materials is from fire. Sparks from locomotives were constantly causing fires, especially to fields and woods, and given the close proximity of the house to the tracks, the threat would have been constant. This threat would also explain the use of brick for a tenant duplex, instead of the wood framing that was used with the buildings on the hill. Mulligan was likely responsible for rebuilding in brick, probably in the 1860s. The building was certainly standing in 1877, when it is shown on the Hopkins atlas, with a smaller frame structure to the northwest that could possibly be the earlier frame house of Patrick McLaughlin. Local tradition states that the B & 0 Railroad Station Master in Ellicott City lived in the brick duplex, though this has not been confomed. 3

Other than the use of brick (and these walls are only two wythes thick, where most brick houses are three to four wythes ), the duplexes are fairly typical of workers housing. The only exception to that is the kitchen in the basement, and this is likely because the building is banked into a hill. The topography of the site would have forced this arrangement. The most common floor plan for worker housing seems

3 Baltimore Sun, 21December1896, p. 8, col. 2. Baltimore Sun, 6 October 1855, p. 1, col. 4. Baltimore Sun, 16 July 1859, p. 1, col. 4. Simon J. Martenet, Martenet 's Map of Howard County, Maryland (Baltimore, 1860). Baltimore Sun, 5 October 1868, p. 1, col. 7. Howard County Land Records, WWW 21-116. G. M. Hopkins, Atlas of Howard County, Maryland (Philadelphia, 1878).



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to have been two rooms back to back, with the front room used as the best room/parlor, and the back room as the kitchen. Sometimes, a one-story room on the rear becomes the kitchen, with the center room likely functioning as a dining area. This example is a slight variation on that, with the kitchen in the basement. This arrangement also provided a large pantry to the back of the house, under the stairway. This was clearly intended from the beginning because the only window on the gable end elevation was to light this space. The existence of a fireplace suggests that this building was earlier, since they are rarely found in this type of dwelling after the Civil War. Cook stoves were more efficient with fuel , which was important for the working class. On the second story, there were typically two chambers, with the one having the stair likely for the children; there seems never to have been a passage for privacy. Invariably, there is a raised tie beam, necessary to get head room because the second story walls were shorter than in other types of housing. This brick example also has all of these characteristics. The location of the stairway may be the biggest variable in this plan type; here, it is tucked into a back comer. The finishes are all simpler than what is found in any farmhouse in the midnineteenth century.

Mulligan, who had no children, basically gave the brick duplex, with a quarter acre of land, to his niece, Mary Blanche Henderson in 1893. She married Frank Addison, and they lived in Frederick County, so this was simply an investment for them, as well. It was sold to John and Emeline Baker in 1953, and they, in tum, sold it to the present owner in 1972. The building was vacant by at least 1977, when it was first inventoried. The rear wall is bowing out and partially collapsed, and the floors in the northeast rooms are rotted due to holes in the roof. A move is underway to have the building demolished in 2013.

9. Major Bibliographical References

See footnotes

10. Geographical Data

Acreage of surveyed property Acreage of historical setting Quadrangle name

26A 3 Y2 A Ellicott City

Verbal boundary description and justification


Quadrangle scale: -"-l.'""'·2-'-40"'""'0""""0'--------

The boundaries consist of the railroad tracks on the northeast and the semi-circular cut-back of the hill to the southwest of it, which encompasses the historic structure on the lower level of the parcel.

11. Form Prepared by

name/title

organization

street & number

city or town

Ken Short

Howard County Department of Planning & Zoning date February 2013

3430 Courthouse Drive telephone 410-313-4335

Ellicott City state l\.1I)

The Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41 , Section 181 KA, 1974 supplement.

The survey and inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

return to: Maryland Historical Trust DHCD/DHCP 100 Community Place Crownsville, MD 21032-2023 410-514-7600

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H0-0333 2013-01-10 01 - -Northeast & northwest elevations

H0-0333 2013-01-10 02 - -Southwest elevation

H0-0333 2013-01-10 03 - -Interior, northwest unit, basement, view east

H0-0333 2013-01-10 04 - -Interior, southeast unit, basement, view southwest

H0-0333 2013-01-10 05 - -

H0-333 Mulligan's Brick Duplex House

3793 Mulligan's Hill Lane, Ellicott City Howard County, Maryland

Ken Short & Beth Burgess, photographers

Interior, southeast unit, basement, pantry, view northwest

H0-0333 2013-01-10 06 - -Interior, southeast unit, first story, northeast room, view east

H0-0333 2013-01-10 07 - -Interior, southeast unit, first story, southwest room, view south

GRANTOR/HOME GRANTEE/HOME

Historic Ellicott John D. Baker & wf

Properties, Inc. /MD Emeline T. I?

Corp

Frank R. Addison John D. Baker & wf unmarried I Fred. Co. Emeline T. I Howard

Ellen A. Gibson & hus. Wade H.

Frank R. Addison I Fred. Roberta Louise Waters &

Co. hus. James Owen I Balto. Co.

Dennis C. Mulligan I Mary Blanche Henderson Balto. Co. I Balto Co.

Niece ofD.C.M.

John Veith & wfKate I Dennis Mulligan I Howard Howard

Ann Maria Campbell I John Veith I Balto. City Balto. City

Mulligan's Brick Du. House (H0-333) 3793 Mulligan's Hill Lane

CHAIN OF TITLE

DATE UBER/ INSTRU- CONSIDER FOLIO MENT -ATION

8 December CMP Deed - fee $5 .00 1972 617-481 simple

14 August MWB Deed -fee $5.00

1953 247-336 simple

HSK Deed - fee 12April 1928

133-394 simple $5.00

29 July 1893 mo Lease $5.00 60-318

22 September WWW 1860 21-116

Lease $1,000

8 July 1859 WWW Deed - fee $3,150 20-217 simple

ACREAGE NOTES

2) third line "running to and 1) 6,414 sq. ft. through and beyond the 2) 8,260 sq. ft. party wall of the middle 3) .26 A block of double frame

houses situated on the aforesaid tract..."

1) & 2) are "three contiguous parcels of land, known as 'Mulligan 's hill' ... " and are second parcel of 431-447

.26 A 3)

M.B.H. d 24 Sept. 1927 F.R.A. is her husb. E.A.G. & R.L. were her sisters

.26 A Annual rent not collected or demanded for over 20 yrs. -now a fee simple property Rent was 1 cent/yr 3)

.26A Same conditions as 21-116

3)

In Village of Ellicott Mills ? 1 cent/yr for 99 yrs

3 Yz A, 35 p.

GRANTOR/HOME GRANTEE/HOME

Samuel Ellicott I Balto. Bernard W. Campbell Co. I Howard Dist. , AA Co.

Robert Mickle, trustee I Samuel Ellicott I Balto. Batto. City Co.

Nathaniel H. Ellicott & wf Thomasine, Jonathan H. Ellicott, Benjamin H. Ellicott & wf, Mary Ann, Robert Mickle, trustee I Samuel Ellicott, & Sarah Balto. City Ellicott, widow of Honathan Ellicott I Balto. City

Mulligan' s Brick Du. House (H0-333) 3793 Mulligan' s Hill Lane

CHAIN OF TITLE

DATE UBER/ INSTRU- CONSIDER FOLIO MENT -ATION

19 November Deed - $540.72 1841

3-76 Indenture

Deed-4 June 1841 3-36

Indenture $9,418.72

19 July 1839 WSG 24-285 Deed -

Indenture -

ACREAGE NOTES

Cottage Lots 3 & 4 on

3Yi A, Ellicotts Sale Plat

35 p.

[no prev. ref.]

Numerous Numerous parcels in Batto. acreages, + 7 & Ann Arundel counties, +

A, 16 p. cottage lots 1, 2, 3, & 4.

Numerous Numerous parcels in Batto. acreages & Ann Arundel counties

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H0-333 Mulligan's Brick Duplex House

3793 Mulligan's Hill Lane, Ellicott City Ellicott City quad

Ho-333 circa 1859 Ellicott's Cottage Lots #3 and #4 Ellicott City Private

These two brick, semi-attached buildings with ground floor stone foundation, face east on the west side of Maryland Avenue. The structures present a four bay wide, one bay deep, three story high brick (laid in English bond) gabled roof (running north-south) building with a central brick chimney. The buildings are located on land once owned by the Ellicotts and denoted on a sale Plat as Cottage lots 3 and 4 on a tract of land called "West Ilchester." The land was owned by Mr. Bernard Campbell in 1842 who laid out Glen Road, now called Mulligan Hill Lane with Dr. Allen Thomas, a neighbor. The property was bought by John and Kate Veith on July 8, 1859 who leased the property for $1,000 in 1860 to Dennis Mulligan, whose name this section of Ellicott City with its adjoining road now bear.

MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST

Ho-333 District 2

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SlTtS SURVEY

NAME

Ellicott's Two Cottage Lots/West Ilchester

AND/OR COMMON

Dennis Mulligan's Two Brick Houses

LOCATION STREET& NUMBER .

3793 Mulligan Hill Lane CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

E l l i c o t t C i t y VICINITY OF 6th STATE COUNTY

Maryland Howard CLASSIFICATION

CATEGORY ^.DISTRICT

_BUILDING(SI

—STRUCTURE

—SITE

—OBJECT

OWNERSHIP —PUBLIC

J^PRIVATE

—BOTH

PUBLIC ACQUISITION —IN PROCESS

—BEING CONSIDERED

STATUS —OCCUPIED

X-UNOCCUPIED

—WORK IN PROGRESS

ACCESSIBLE X.YES: RESTRICTED

— YES: UNRESTRICTED

—NO

—MUSEUM

_PAaK

—PRIVATE RESIDENCE

—RELIGIOUS

—SCIENTIFIC

—TRANSPORTATION

-OTHER t o b e

determined

PRESENTUSE AGRICULTURE

—COMMERCIAL

—EDUCATIONAL

—ENTERTAINMENT

—GOVERNMENT

—INDUSTRIAL

—MILITARY

OWNfER OF PROPERTY H i s t o r i c E l l i c o t t P r o p e r t i e s , Inco rpora t ed

NAME c /o Samuel H. Caplan Telephone #

STREETS. NUMBER

8521 Main S t r e e t STATE, z i p code

21043 CITY. TOWN

E l l i c o t t City VICINITY OF Maryland LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. T a x Map 2 5 - A p . 137 REGISTRY OF DEEDS.ETC H a l l O f ReCOrCJS

Liber #: 617 Folio #: 481

Land Access: 1500 Building Access: 50 Total AScess: 1550

STREET & NUMBER

Howard County Court House CITY. TOWN STATE

El l i co t t City Maryland

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE

Howard County Historic Sites Inventory DATE

1977 —FEDERAL XsTATE —COUNTY —LOCAL

DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Maryland Historical Trust OTY. TOWN STATE

21 State Circle, Annapolis Maryland

DESCRIPTION HO-333 Dist 2

CONDITION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE

—EXCELLENT i?DETER10RATEC X_UNALTERED X.ORIGtNAL SITE

_GOOD _RUINS ALTERED _MOVED DATE

_FA1R _UNEXPOSED

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

MULLIGAN HILL BRICK BUILDINGS

This brick building is located close to the RR tracks and river south of the center of Ellicott Gity. The house is in a dangerous spot with its proxmity to the river.

The structure is a four bay wide, two bay deep brick building laid in English bond v/ith a chimney located in the middle of the roof running with the gable roof north-south. There are no appertures on the north and south walls. Entrances are located on the east wall. The buildings foundation and 1st floor ground level is constructed of stone with a shed roof porch covering the rectangular entrances located in the north and south bays.

The general condition of the house is poor and in a state of disrepair. The west elevation contains two second and third floor windows on each side of the west wall, proportionally scaled. The Second floor windows contain six-over-six lights but are presently boarded up. The third floor windows have three-over-three lights. All the windows have flat arched lintels.

The structure is located in a dangerous area but maintains its architectural integrity and is surrounded by foliage and a sloping hill on the §outh and west. Built into the slope of the hill the second floor windows appear as first floor windows on the west elevation.

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SIGNIFICANCE

PERIOD

—PREHISTORIC

—1400-1499

—1500-1599

—1600-1699

—1700-1799

X-1800-1899

—1900-

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -—ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC

Ji_ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC

—AGRICULTURE

X-ARCHITECTURE

j_ART

-COMMERCE

—COMMUNICATIONS

SPECIFIC DATES n i n e t e e n t h cen

—COMMUNITY PLANNING

—CONSERVATION

—ECONOMICS

-EDUCATION

—ENGINEERING

- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

—EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT

—INDUSTRY

—INVENTION

—LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

—LAW

—LITERATURE

—MILITARY

—MUSIC

—PHILOSOPHY

—POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

t u r y BUILDER/ARCHITECT

—RELIGION

—SCIENCE

—SCULPTURE

—SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN

—THEATER

—TRANSPORTATION

—OTHER (SPECIFY)

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

These two semi-attached brick houses are referred to as being located on cottage lots 3 and 4 of Ellicott's Sale Plat in the following excerpt fnomadeed dated 8 of July, 1859 from Ann Maria Campbell of the City of Baltimore to John and Kate Veith of Howard County:

. . . being part of a tract of land called West Ilchester and comprehending those two lots distinguished on Ellicott's Sale Plat as Cottage lots number 3 and 4 and contained within the following metes and bounds . . . (Howard County 20-217)

The deed also locates the land "together with the improvements thereon and the rights, privileges", etc. as being next to a tract of land called "Glen Owen . From this tract's name came the original name. Glen Street, for what is now called Mulligan's Hill Lane. On 16 of May, 1842 Dr. All en Thomas and Bernard U. Campbell, both of Howard County and "seized of certain real estate, in and near the village of Ellicotts Mills lying contiquous to each other. . . for the mutual benefit of each other . . . laid out . . . the roads ways or streets . ... upon the plat hereto annexed." (Howard County Deeds 3-221) On the annexed plat (please see attachment 2) Mulligan's Hill Lane is delineated as Glenn Street. 4

On September 22, 1860 John and Kate Veith leased the property to Dennis Mulligan of Howard County for the sum of $1000 for the 3 acres, 2 rods and 35 perches of land. An interesting provision is noted in the deed that Dennis Mulligan had "right of way to and use of a walled spring on the land of said John Veith contiguous to the land here by leased." (21-116)

Sometime between 1860 and 1893 Dennis Mulligan moved from Howard County to Baltimore County and on July 29, 1893 leased the property to his niece, Mary Blanche Henderson under an annual rent of one cent, "which rent, however has not been demanded or collected for a period of over twenty years so that a fee simple title is now vested in the said Mary Blanche Henderson." (JHO 60-318)

After her death her sisters and husband inherited the property and on April 12, 1928 Allen A. Gibson etal granted to Majry's husband Frank E. Addison the property. (HSK 133-394)


Significance Ho-333 Page 2 of 2 Dist 2

On August 14, 1953 Frank R. Addison granted to John and Emeline T. Baker the property. (MWB 247"336) which they in turn sold to Historic Ellicott Properties, Incorporated, present owners. (617-481)

Architecturally these two semi-attached brick building are representative of nineteenth century duplexes. Their north and south exterior walls hold no apertures so that it is feasible that whoever built the buildings believed later they might be built upon on either side. Today they stand vacant but plans are now underway by the present owners to restore the building (s) for occupancy.

Further research is needed to ofter a more specific building date. In the process of their restoration, a date may yet be uncovered.

Situated in the Ellicott City Historic District they hold significance as an anchor.

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VlAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 1. Howard County Land Records 2, Interview with Mr. Samuel Caplan, September 21, 19 77.


• SEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY . 2 6 0 A c r e S

Please see attachment I, Tax Map 25-A

VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

FOR THE THIRD THEREOF, beginning for the same at the end of the third line of the above partly recited lease, referred to in a deed dated August 14, 1953 from Frank R. Addison to John D. Baker and wife, recorded in Liber M.W.B. 247, folio 336 of the aforesaid Land Records, where a stone is planted on the east edge of a road laid out 20 feet wide for the use of all the ground adjoining; and running thence (1) South 633s degrees degrees East- 150 feet tn an i ron pin made—fast in the—solid rock;—at—the

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE COUNTY

Maryland Howard STATE COUNTY

|FORM PREPARED BY NAME/TITLE

Cleora Barnes Thompson,Archivist ORGANIZATION . DATE

Office of Planning & Zoning-Comprehensive Planning Section 465-5000 x257 STREETS! NUMBER TELEPHONE

3450 Court House Drive CITY OR TOWN STATE

EHicot t City Maryland

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 19 74 Supplement.

The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 267-1438

Verbal Boundary Descripton Ho-333 Page 2 of 2 Dist 2

distance of about 33 feet from the center line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as now laid in double tracks; thence (2) South 4 4^ degrees West 105 feet to a stone now planted; thence (3) North 6832 degrees West 6935 feet to a stone planted on the east edge of the road heretofore laid out 20 feet wide and at the beginning of the third line of the lot of which the lot herein being described is a part; and running thence and bounding along the east edge of said road North 2h, degrees East 116 feet to the place of the first beginning. Containing .26 of an acre of land, more or less.

Attachment I Ho-333 Ellicott's Cottage Lots 3 and 4 Tax Map 25-A

Attachment 2 Ho-333 Ellicott's Cottage Lots 3 and 4 Annexed Plat of Roadways laid out 1 by Dr. Allen Thomas and Bernard U. Ckmpb'ell 16 May, _1842 (Liber 3 Folio

Attachment 3 Ho-333 Ellicotts Cottage Lots #3 and #4 Hopkin's Atlas of 1878 Ellicott City, Maryland

HO-333 Ellicott Cottage Lots 3 & 4 (Dennis Mulligan's Two Brick Houses) 3793 Mulligan Hill Lane, Ellicott City Martenet's Map of Howard County Maryland, 1860

G.M. Hopkins Atlas of Howard County, Maryland, 1878

HO-333 Ellicott Cottage Lots 3 & 4 (Dennis Mulligan's Two Brick Houses) 3793 Mulligan Hill Lane, Ellicott City Howard County Historic Aerials, 1984

HO-333 Ellicott Cottage Lots 3 & 4 (Dennis Mulligan's Two Brick Houses) 3793 Mulligan Hill Lane, Ellicott City Ellicott City quad 1953, Photorevised 1966 and 1974

TaxMap25A, P. 137 National Web Map Service 6" Orthophoto Map, c. 2010

HO-333 Ellicott Cottage Lots 3 & 4 (Dennis Mulligan's Two Brick Houses) 3793 Mulligan Hill Lane, Ellicott City Photo by Jennifer K. Cosham, 12/5/2012 West (rear) elevation

ho-333 ellicott cottage lots 3 and 4 (dennis mulligan's two ...city, town ellicott city state...

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