Loveton

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Built c.1840 by Captain Thomas Love who died in 1886 and left the property to his son, Albert Thomas Love. It was sold in 1909 to J. Frank Lupo. The estate was farmed until 1959 by the Angelo Lupo family and descendants. The property was acquired in the 1970s by Maryland Properties, which is a real estate subsidiary of McCormick & Company. Melvin Fox bought the property in 1978. He restored the house and removed the 19th century sleeping porches. An unidentified newspaper article of 1931 suggested that unnamed the builder and architect was the same person who had designed Hayfields and suggested a date between 1805 and 1810 for the original part. A wing was added in 1848. The house had ten or twelve rooms and an immense kitchen-dining area on the first floor, where an iron crane and metal pots were still in the fireplace. In 1931 a two and a half story, former stone slave house still stood on the property. The bell, that had once been mounted on the roof of the "quarters" and used to call slaves to their meals, was mounted in the front yard of the mansion.