The Pennington Cottage is a historic home located at Deer Park

Deer Park, Maryland

Deer Park is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The population was 399 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Deer Park is located at ....

, Garrett County

Garrett County, Maryland

Garrett County is the westernmost county of the U.S. state of Maryland. Created from Allegany County, Maryland in 1872 it was the last Maryland county to be formed. It was named for John Work Garrett , railroad executive, industrialist, and financier. Garrett served as president of the Baltimore...

, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

United States

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. It is a -story, late-19th-century Shingle-Style frame structure, with a gambrel

Gambrel

A gambrel is a usually-symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom on the building's upper level...

 roof and a one-story porch that stretches across the principal facade and along portions of the sides. The house is entirely covered with dark wood shingles. It was built as a part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...

's Deer Park Hotel

Deer Park Hotel

thumb|Deer Park Hotel - Main House - 1892thumbFollowing the American Civil War, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad created a vacation resort in the Appalachian Mountains of Western Maryland, in the small town of Deer Park, Maryland...

 complex, as the summer home of Baltimore architect Josias Pennington (d. 1929).

Pennington Cottage 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 1976.

External links

• Pennington Cottage, Garrett County, including photo from 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust