Enoch Pratt Free Library

Description

Photograph of the rear of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789), Chancellor of the Colony of Maryland from 1778 until his death in 1789. Later, it became the home of Governor Thomas George Pratt (1804-1869). By 1935, it had become an antique shop. This side of the building, although considered the rear in 1935, was originally probably the front of the building; on the right, note the arched stained-glass window above the large double doors. This building, which appears attached to a slightly smaller brick (first floor) and frame (second floor) building to the left, sits well back from the road on a large lawn shaded by two large trees in the center near the house. An old stone block, long used as a slave block, i.e., an auction block on which slaves were exhibited, sits in the center of the lawn, originally a market place along the road.

Record Contributed By

Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Maryland