Maryland

Thornton, Chestertown, Maryland (39.269309, -76.020574)

 

Primary House Felling dates: Spring 1797, Winter 1796/7

Site Master 1716-1797 (white oak) TRMDx1 (t = 6.46 DC-AREA; 6.35 MARLAND; 6.29 MWMDx1).

Thornton is a two-and-a-half-story, five-bay brick structure in the Federal style. It has three dormers on the north side and two on the south, with large chimney stacks in the center of each gable.

Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was constructed from timbers felled in the winter of 1796/7 and the spring of 1797.

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2022 “The Tree-Ring Dating of Thornton, Chestertown, Maryland ”, unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2022/04

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