Grassland is a historic home at Annapolis Junction

Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Annapolis Junction is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States.-Demographics:The ZIP Code for Annapolis Junction is 20701. 2000 Census for 20701*Population 40*Median age 31.5 years*Single family homes 6...

, Anne Arundel County

Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Anne Arundel County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is named for Anne Arundell , a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England and the wife of Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state...

, Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

. It was built in 1853, and is a three-part brick structure constructed in a telescoping manner. Other structures on the property are the one-story frame slave house with brick-nogged walls, a small stone smokehouse, the remains of a summer kitchen, and a frame harness shed, storage shed, and the ruins of a bank barn. The outbuildings are known to have been erected between 1852 and 1854 by the plantation

Plantation

A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

 slaves.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1984.

External links

• Grassland, Anne Arundel County, including photo from 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust