Chesapeake Home

Frederick, Maryland is strategically located in the American landscape. Laid out in 1745 by land speculator Daniel Dulany and situated on the route to the Shenandoah Valley, Frederick was a stopping place for pioneers traveling to the frontier. Settled predominately by German immigrants, the town’s most notable residents were a young German schoolmaster and his [...]

Within the year the town of Easton will be celebrating its 300th anniversary. Steeped in history dating back to 1711, Easton began as a center of trade and government. European settlers were drawn to Talbot County’s wealth of natural resources and abundance of waterways for ease of travel. Its first English settlers, arriving by boat [...]

This month’s real estate story switches focus from a single architectural style to the diverse and historic communities that have developed in and around the southern mid-Atlantic. Chevy Chase, Maryland is our first profile —an area that is rooted in history and has weathered the turbulent economic and political times of the last century.
Founded by [...]

In this month’s Real Estates, we take a look at Federal style architecture, which is an adaptation of the Georgian style and became popular in the United States around 1780 until the 1830s. Like much of America’s architecture, the Federal (or Federalist) style was modeled after estates in the British Isles. The Adam brothers—two Scotsmen [...]

In this month’s Real Estates, we are profiling Prairie Box and American Foursquare architecture. The Prairie style came into existence around 1893 to 1920 and was popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright believed that the Victorian era homes were too confining and began to design houses with low horizontal lines and open interior spaces.
These homes [...]

In this month’s Real Estates we are considering styles of architecture common to coastal climes. Among these styles the Cape Cod, the colonial, and contemporary variations are standards for waterfront properties around the Chesapeake Bay region. Each has very unique architectural features with qualities that are well suited for waterfront structures.
These three styles each originated [...]

Handmade Crafts Spark a Movement and an Architectural Style In this month’s Real Estates we look at the Craftsman—an architectural style heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1880s, when English designers John Ruskin, William Morris, and Philip Webb among others were celebrating handcrafts and the use of simple as well as natural forms. In 1902, brothers Charles and Henry Greene from Pasadena, California began to design houses that combined the Arts and Crafts ide

An Era that Influenced Architecture In this month’s Real Estates we look at Victorians–homes classified by an era and not an architectural style. The Victorian period spans from 1840 to 1900, and within that time, many styles and trends overlapped each other, causing this type of home to be very eclectic. Most experts give residential Victorian architecture the following names: Gothic Revival, Folk Victorian, Italianate, Second Empire, Renaissance Revival, Queen Anne, Stick Style, Ri

In this month’s Real Estates we look at Tudor Revivals–reinventions of the majestic homes built in the 1500s by the Tudor Dynasty in England. In the United States, Tudor or Medieval Revival homes were initially embraced by the wealthy for their country or suburban estates. By the early 20th century the style’s popularity filtered down [...]