Figure 12. Whitehall Dwelling House (1984

1925.80 It is not clear if Stamp and his family ever occupied the property. A purchaser and seller of hundreds of Aquasco acres in the early part of the twentieth century, Stamp sold the property (and another 105-acre tract in a separate deed) to Shelby and Mae Young, a white couple, in 1925.81 The name Whitehall disappeared from the land records with this deed.

In 1934, the Youngs conveyed the 4.3-acre parcel on which the tenant house sits to Leigh and Ruth Keech.82 This is the parcel as it exists today. No census records corroborate the property’s owners ever living there. It is assumed the house was built at some point between 1878 and 1934 (although the style suggests circa 1900 or earlier) for a tenant farmer and the property eventually subdivided to accommodate the dwelling. The tenant house is not shown on the 1878 Hopkins Atlas of that year, though the very similar Scott Farmhouse (16100 St. Philip’s Church Road, PG:87B-36-11) is shown on the atlas and is mentioned in its own and neighboring deeds.

The 4.3-acre property passed through a number of hands following Ruth Keech’s death in the late 1960s, with each owner selling it after less than a decade.

Figure 12. Whitehall Dwelling House (1984)

The nineteenth-century Whitehall dwelling house, where E.G. Bowling died, and so apparently named by 1904–1913 owner, the Reverend Charles Ernest Smith, as it appeared in 1984. Although an I-house itself, it featured more exuberant decoration and modulation. Note the twostory bay windows and double front doors.

Source: Aquasco Survey District (PG: 87B-36), Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form, (Crownsville: The Maryland Historical Trust, 1984).