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The Belmont Estate, now Belmont Manor and Historic Park, [4] is a former plantation located at Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland, United States.Founded in the 1730s and known in the Colonial period as "Moore's Morning Choice", [5] it was one of the earliest forced-labor farms in Howard County, Maryland.
Belmont Manor House, formally known as Belmont Plantation, is a two-story, five-part Federal mansion in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, built between the years of 1799–1802 by Ludwell Lee (1760–1836), son of Richard Henry Lee. The land surrounding the mansion, the Belmont property, was handed down to his first wife (also his first ...
Ralston called the estate “Belmont”, and this eventually became the name for the town surrounding the estate. Outside of the mansion, the estate had a “ stone carriage house, barns, a bowling alley, greenhouses, servants’ quarters, and a gymnasium with Turkish baths”. The estate was built to be self sufficient, with innovative gas and ...
The Howard County Conservancy is a non-profit land trust that operates a nature center in Woodstock, Maryland.Founded in 1990, the center is located at the historic 300-year-old, 232-acre (0.94 km 2) Mt. Pleasant Farm, [1] and also maintains an additional nature center at the nearby Belmont Manor.
HO-133, Doughoregan Manor Stone House, Old Manor Lane, Ellicott City; HO-134, William Johnson Estate House, 4411 Manor Lane, Ellicott City; HO-135, Jack Gebhard House (Porter's Tavern), 4955 Manor Lane, Ellicott City; HO-136, Joel Kline Farm Ruins, Clarksville Pike (MD 108), Ellicott City
The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over. Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate ...
Belmont Mansion, also known as Acklen Hall, and originally known as Belle Monte, Belle Mont or Belmont, is a historic mansion located in Nashville, Tennessee.It was built by Joseph and Adelicia Acklen to serve as the center of their 180-acre summer estate in what was then country outside the city, and featured elaborate gardens and a zoo.
Southwest Mountains, Belmont is in between these mountains and Rivanna River to the south. Belmont Plantation, also known as Belmont Estate and Belmont, is a locale in Albemarle County, Virginia, [1] and the site of a 19th-century plantation. It was among the first patents in Albemarle County, patented in the 1730s.