Gallagher Mansion and Outbuilding - Baltimore MD - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
The Gallagher Mansion is a large house near the southwest corner of York Road and Notre Dame Lane in the Govans section of northern Baltimore City. It was originally built in the mid-nineteenth century as an Italianate villa, and was subsequently enlarged and embellished in the Second Empire style of the later mid century.

The walls are built of local rough fieldstone and rubble. There is
a mansard roof covered with decorative slate including polychrome bands of hexagonal-cut and diamond-cut shingles.

The house is three stories high, the third story being within the mansard. Its most distinctive architectural features include the mansard roof, the French windows, the Italianate entrance loggia, the true stone construction, and perhaps most interesting, the rear service wing, which upon close examination clearly reflects the stages of alteration and enlargement that gave us the present Second Empire house.

The house was built, in its original Italianate form, sometime between 1854 and 1857. The Second Empire enlargements were done in 1873 or shortly thereafter. The outbuilding is a rectangular wood carriage house, two stories high, with a hip roof and cupola.

Early owners of the mansion-Dr. Benjamin W. Woods and Patrick Gallagher:

The property derives additional significance from its historic associations: the original portion of the house was built sometime between 1854 and 1857 for Dr. Benjamin W. Woods, a former Army surgeon and a veteran of the Second Seminole War of 1835-1842.

The house's alterations and enlargements were done in 1873 or shortly thereafter for Patrick Gallagher, a Baltimore County roads commissioner and proprietor of a Govans grocery. Since the village of Govanstown was the hub of a sub-economy of farms and estates north of Baltimore, and since Gallagher f s grocery business
was a point of exchange, where people from the area bought provisions from elsewhere as well as selling some of their own products, Gallagher played a significant role in the economic development of the region.

Street address: 431 Notre Dame Lane Baltimore, MD USA 21212 County / Borough / Parish: Baltimore City Year listed: 1983 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1850-1874 Historic function: Domestic Current function: Senior Living Housing Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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