Schwartze Mansion
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| Location | 4206 Euclid Ave., Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°16′58″N 76°41′10″W / 39.28278°N 76.68611°W |
| Area | 0.8 acres (0.32 ha) |
| Built | 1845 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 85002174 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 12, 1985 |
Schwartze Mansion is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States in the Irvington neighborhood. It is a two-story, five bay brick Greek Revival building constructed in 1845. It features a flat roofline embellished with a deep modillioned cornice above a frieze decorated with recessed panels.
The mansion was built in 1845 by Augustus Jacob Schwartze, a German immigrant who arrived in Baltimore in 1793.[1] He was involved in Baltimore's early 19th century textile industry, likely beginning in 1809 as a stock investor in the Union Manufacturing Company near Ellicott City, Maryland; it was the first manufacturing company to be incorporated in the state of Maryland.[2][1] For a time, it was the largest textile mill operation in the nation.[1] He was president of three insurance companies.[1] He earned a doctorate of medicine in 1829.[3]
In 1830 his son, Henry Schwartze (1795-1850), acquired 152 acres, probably financed by his father's textile mill investments even though Henry was the registered owner.[1] Henry and Augustus built the house in 1845, with the intention of the senior Augustus living with Henry's wife and children.[1] Henry's six-year-old son laid the cornerstone for the house in 1845.[1] Henry died suddenly in 1850 (age 55), and his will bequeathed the property to his wife Sophia (1805-1887), and to his father in trust of his children (Augustus' grandchildren).[1] Twenty-three-years later, in 1868, Henry's daughter, also named Sophia (1845-1932), married C. Irving Ditty (1838-1887), a Baltimore attorney. Ditty moved into the house with Sophia and her mother.[1] Ditty further developed the surrounding land into the neighborhood of Irvington.[1] Ditty died in 1887, the same year Sophia's mother Sophia died, and the mansion passed out of the Schwartze family in the early 1890s.[1] The house was purchased by the Marciano family.[1]
By 1979, the Marciano family had divided the Mansion into small apartments.[1] In the 1980s, Kenneth Jernigan, who re-discovered the mansion's history, bought it and restored it to its original use as a single home.[1] Schwartze Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Marc Maurer and Peter E. Kurtze (May 1985). "NR-1899: Schwartze Mansion" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ Sharp, Henry K. (March 9, 1999). "BA-2809: Union Manufacturing Company Sites: Architectural Survey File" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
- ^ Jameson, Horatio Gates (1829). The Maryland medical recorder. Baltimore: William Wooddy. p. 158.
External links
- Schwartze Mansion, Baltimore City, including photo from 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust
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