Linden is a historic home located near Port Tobacco, Charles County

Charles County, Maryland

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

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. It is a rambling frame house, consisting of a -story main block with wings, embodying many traditional characteristics of Tidewater architecture

Tidewater architecture

Tidewater architecture is a style of architecture found mostly in coastal areas of the Southern United States. These homes, with large wraparound porches and hip roofs, were designed for wet, hot climates....

. The house is situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the Port Tobacco Valley. The home was begun early in the 1780s and enlarged about 1800, and in the late 1830s. Linden was probably built as a summer residence about 1783, by Henry Barnes, a wealthy Port Tobacco merchant and on a property that remained in the same family for over 300 years.

Linden was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1977.

External links

• Linden, including photo from 1979, at Maryland Historical Trust