Showing posts with label Oakland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oakland. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2026

Lanterns / cupolas on roofs in Howard County MD for light and ventilation

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One way to cool buildings was to have a 'lantern' or cupola on the roof that would draw the warm air up stairs, or through vents o...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Ruthless, winner of first Belmont Stakes, killed by a hunter at "Oakland Manor"

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In 1867 the first Belmont Stakes race was held at the new Jerome Park racecourse.  A filly won. Ruthless was raised by Francis Morris (181...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Bleak House - historic home ruin becomes a tot slide

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On a hill off the east side of Rain Dream Hill near Wilde lake sits the shell of a stone house - "Bleak House" - once part of ...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Oakland Mills blacksmith shop in danger

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The blacksmith shop is literally falling down. Colonial Williamsburg staff called it "unparalleled by anything we have seen elsewhere...
Monday, March 13, 2017

"Wilde Lake" - Laura Littman's Columbia sites photos: Old Oakland Farm, People's Tree and Wilde Lake

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Once part of the vast lands of Charles Sterrett Ridgely's Oakland mansion HERE , the stone home "Old Oakland" was the farm c...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Oakland's outbuildings repurposed

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A previous post HERE described Oakland. Next to the mansion is a stone wash house (left) which connects to the underground ice house hol...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Charles Sterrett Ridgely's name change and Oakland

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Charles Ridgely Sterrett (1782-1847) legally changed his surname as requested by his mother's uncle Capt. Charles Ridgely, the builder...