LaGrange (Cambridge, Maryland)

LaGrange
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Meredith House, March 2011
Location	904 LaGrange Ave., Cambridge, Maryland
Coordinates	38°33′59″N 76°3′36″W / 38.56639°N 76.06000°WCoordinates: 38°33′59″N 76°3′36″W / 38.56639°N 76.06000°W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1760
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP Reference #	80001809[1]
Added to NRHP	January 24, 1980

LaGrange, also known as La Grange Plantation or Meredith House, is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1760. The house is a  2 ¹⁄₂-story Flemish bond brick house and is one of the few remaining Georgian houses in the town. Sun porches and a frame wing were added to the main house in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Three outbuildings remain, including a late-19th century dairy, an 18th-century smokehouse, and a 20th-century garage.^[2]

LaGrange was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

La Grange Plantation

The Dorchester County Historical Society owns the La Grange Plantation and operates it as an open museum of local history. The different buildings include the 1760 period furnished Meredith House, exhibits on local history, agriculture, domestic life, antique transportation vehicles, and tools used by a woodworker, wheelwright and blacksmith.

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Susan K. Langrall and Mark R. Edwards (August 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: LaGrange" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

• Dorchester County Historical Society
• LaGrange, Dorchester County, including photo from 1999, at Maryland Historical Trust