The Cloisters (Lutherville, Maryland)

The Cloisters

The Cloisters in December 2009
Location 10440 Falls Road, west of Lutherville, Maryland
Coordinates 39°24′39″N 76°40′17″W / 39.41083°N 76.67139°W / 39.41083; -76.67139Coordinates: 39°24′39″N 76°40′17″W / 39.41083°N 76.67139°W / 39.41083; -76.67139
Area 53 acres (21 ha)
Built 1930
Architect Sumner A. Parker
Architectural style Late Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 79001115[1]
Added to NRHP August 7, 1979

The Cloisters, also known as Cloisters Castle, is a historic home located at Lutherville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1930 and is a  2 1⁄2-story house that is highly picturesque and irregular in elevation and plan that features a multiplicity of architectural ornament. It is built of large, random-sized blocks of a native gray and gold colored rock known as "Butler stone" and features a flagstone roof, with details principally of sandstone, wood from the site, plaster, and wrought iron. The main façade is dominated by two asymmetrically placed, projecting sections topped by massive half-timbered gables which were originally part of a Medieval house in Domrémy, France. It also features a massive stone octagonal stair tower, which contains a stone and wrought-iron spiral staircase and is crowned by a crenellated parapet and a small, round, stone-roofed structure from which one can exit onto the roof of the main tower.[2] The house's roof is constructed of overlapping flagstones secured by iron pins, the only roof of this kind in America.[3]

The property is owned by Baltimore City, despite being located in Baltimore County. The city ran a children's museum in the building until 1996, at which time it moved the museum to the Inner Harbor area and renamed it "Port Discovery". The Cloisters is currently operated as a rental facility.

The Cloisters was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Ms. Gregory R. Weidman (August 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: The Cloisters" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. ↑ "Greenspring/East Pikesville Community Action Plan". September 29, 2009. p. 20. Retrieved 2011-02-28.


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