MANSIONS
OF THE EASTERN SHORE & DELMARVA PENINSULA
DORCHESTER
MARYLAND'S REHOBOTH AT PUCKUM BRANCH.
Rehoboth,
aka, Lee Mansion and Turpin Place , sits high and
dry
at 5850 Puckum Road, Eldorado, Dorchester county, Maryland.
Rehoboth Mansion, 2-1/2 story Flemish bond brick house,
three
bays wide and three bays deep. It stands on a high foundation
with
large
cellar windows at ground level. Wall's of the house, two brick
belt,
vary
from 18 inches to 24 inches. The principal facade faces
the
southwest,
towards Marshy Hope Creek. It has another entrance in the
southeast
bay covered by a one bay pedimented porch supported by
fluted
Doric columns. The windows are 12/12 sash dormer, at the gables
are
round 4 light windows, the southwest gable end has French doors,
all
with
brick arches. The chimneys are flush with exterior walls. A 1-1/2
story
wood frame kitchen wing is attached to the northeast bay.
The
interior of Rehoboth was gutted by fire in October 1916.
On
February 27, 1917, Frances W. Breuil bought 70 acres of the
Rehoboth
Mansion
estate which included the four walls. He had the house rebuilt
exact
except for a circular three floor staircase.
Rehoboth
was linked with Richard Henry Lee and Francis
Lightfoot
Lee, each signed the Declaration of Independence and
members
of the Virginia Lee family. Rehoboth descended through
the
Thomas Simm Lee family, the second elected Governor of Maryland.
The
architecture of the house has it's own story.
Abstract:
National Register Properties in Maryland.
A
Maryland State Road Commission historical sign at Eldorado and
Puckum
Road reads, “ Rehoboth” Patented by Captain John Lee of
the
State
of Virginia, 1673, for 2350 acres, descended through the Lee's
until
1787. Thomas Sim Lee, second governor of Maryland, descended
from
the Rehoboth Lee's.
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