The Cloisters (Lutherville, Maryland)
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The Cloisters
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The Cloisters in December 2009
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| Location | 10440 Falls Road, west of Lutherville, Maryland |
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| Area | 53 acres (21 ha) |
| Built | 1930 |
| Architect | Sumner A. Parker |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 79001115[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 7, 1979 |
The Cloisters, also known as Cloisters Castle, is a historic home located at Lutherville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1930 and is a 2 1⁄2-story house that is highly picturesque and irregular in elevation and plan that features a multiplicity of architectural ornament. It is built of large, random-sized blocks of a native gray and gold colored rock known as "Butler stone" and features a flagstone roof, with details principally of sandstone, wood from the site, plaster, and wrought iron. The main façade is dominated by two asymmetrically placed, projecting sections topped by massive half-timbered gables which were originally part of a Medieval house in Domrémy, France. It also features a massive stone octagonal stair tower, which contains a stone and wrought-iron spiral staircase and is crowned by a crenellated parapet and a small, round, stone-roofed structure from which one can exit onto the roof of the main tower.[2] The house's roof is constructed of overlapping flagstones secured by iron pins, the only roof of this kind in America.[3]
The property is owned by Baltimore City, despite being located in Baltimore County. The city ran a children's museum in the building until 1996, at which time it moved the museum to the Inner Harbor area and renamed it "Port Discovery". The Cloisters is currently operated as a rental facility.
The Cloisters was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
References
External links
- Maryland's National Register Properties, The Cloisters, Baltimore County, (Photo credit: Ralph J. Kueppers, 08/1977, Maryland Historical Trust)
- The Cloisters official website (Managed by Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, 10 E. Baltimore Street, 10th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202)
- The Cloisters (Cloisters Castle) (Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, 10 E. Baltimore Street, 10th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202)
- Cloisters Castle - Event Venue, Historical Place | Facebook
- The Cloisters (Cloisters Castle) (Listing on www.dupontcastle.com Directory of U.S. Castles)
- Maryland (Scenic) Byways (Brochure) (References to The Cloisters, pp. 72, 74)
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