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Architecture included two wood-frame houses from the early years of Calvert’s colony, a third somewhat later structure not yet completely exposed and a large stone building that archaeologists believe is Lord Baltimore’s long-sought-after “Mansion House”. The stone building, measuring about 18' by 30' inside (36' by 23' outside) was a story and a half or two story structure with a roof made from locally-produced slates. In places the massive stone walls still stand over six feet high. A large fireplace is located along a side wall of the two-room “hall-and-parlour” structure, a layout common in Wales and perhaps reflecting the origins of its builder, the colony’s first Governor, Captain Edward Wynne. Brick, ash and charcoal in the collapsed building indicate a fireplace on the second floor. The interior walls were plastered with fine lime, probably some of that requested by Governor Wynne from Calvert in 1622 when he asked for “lymestones and a lyme burner”.



The Mansion House has eluded archaeologists for decades, partly because of the more than two meters of overburden and modern structures that obscured it from view. It has also been a common belief that the Mansion House and the first house, constructed by Captain Wynne in 1621 were one and the same. However, a reinterpretation of the documents casts doubt on this belief and points to the large stone structure as Lord Baltimore’s Mansion. In 1622, after the first house was completed, Captain Wynne requested six masons, four carpenters, two or three quarry men, and a slater or two in addition to the limestone and lime burner. Clearly, some major construction was planned.

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