Mount Aventine

Mount Aventine is a farm complex and national historic district located along the Potomac River in Bryans Road, Charles County, Maryland. The complex includes the main house; a second-quarter 19th century Greek Revival-influenced brick house. It was enlarged about 1860 to its present five-bay, center-passage, 2+1⁄2-story appearance. Also on the property are a 19th-century frame smokehouse, the site of another 19th-century house complex, late-19th /early-20th-century agricultural outbuildings, house and dairy barn complex built about 1900, historic roadbeds, a family cemetery, and sites of a 19th-century fishery and an 18th-century house.[2]

For the hill in Rome, see Aventine Hill.

Mount Aventine
Front of the Chapman House
Mount Aventine is located in Maryland
Mount Aventine
Mount Aventine is located in the United States
Mount Aventine
Nearest cityBryans Road, Maryland
Coordinates38°37′4″N 77°7′3″W
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.94001328[1]
Added to NRHPApril 18, 1996

Its former cupola was used as a signal station by the Federal government during the American Civil War. The Chapman family owned the Mt. Aventine tract from 1751 until 1916, and the ferry operated by them was one of several important crossings of the Potomac River connecting Northern Virginia to Maryland.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996,[1] and since 1998 has been preserved as part of Chapman State Park.[3]

The house is open for tours during special events hosted by the Friends of Chapman State Park.

  • Rear of the Chapman House
    Rear of the Chapman House
  • Abandoned barn
    Abandoned barn

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. J. Richard Rivoire (July 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Aventine" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  3. "Chapman State Park". Maryland DNR. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
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