. Baltimore : its history and its people. gion was employed in its first native monu-ments. The charming mansion with its graceful portico, its doorwaysframed with rare oval fluted columns, and its fine interior decoration waserected in 1800 by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, as a wedding gift to hisson Charles Carroll and Harriet Chew, another Baltimore bride from theold Chew mansion at Germantown where Colonel Howard had met hisromantic fate in the very citadel of one of the most thrilling of the Revo-lutionary battle-fields. Not far northward of Belvedere and Parnassus was the estate ofRober
. Baltimore : its history and its people. gion was employed in its first native monu-ments. The charming mansion with its graceful portico, its doorwaysframed with rare oval fluted columns, and its fine interior decoration waserected in 1800 by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, as a wedding gift to hisson Charles Carroll and Harriet Chew, another Baltimore bride from theold Chew mansion at Germantown where Colonel Howard had met hisromantic fate in the very citadel of one of the most thrilling of the Revo-lutionary battle-fields. Not far northward of Belvedere and Parnassus was the estate ofRobert Oliver (13). Here to-day upon the gentle hill-slopes, transformed intoGreenmount Cemetery, many noted citizens of Baltimore sleep their lastsleep near where the stately home once stood, high upon the Green Mount,which with its Gothic chapel now attracts the eye as one enters the gates ofthe cemetery. Not far from Green Mount on the York Road was Bel-mont, on the Harford road (both of them to-day still bordering on North HAMPTON, MOUNT CLARE,Ki-ected byBarrister (larroll, 1751. WiiiKs lillO. Wl y*^ mmmm
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