Glenelg Manor and Glenelg Country School

 place with historical importance, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, private school, school ground

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Glenelg Manor is a country villa designed in the Gothic Revival style to dramatize as well as harmonize with the surrounding rural landscape.

Glenelg Manor is significant for its architecture, as the best extant rural example of a Gothic Revival domestic building in Howard County, if not in all of Maryland. Situated atop a small hill overlooking gently rolling countryside, Glenelg Manor embodies the romantic ideals of the style as espoused by its greatest architectural spokesmen, A. J. Davis and A. J. Downing. What is perhaps most architecturally significant about Glenelg Manor is the interrelationship of the use of the Gothic Revival style on its interior. The building's exterior contains many of the most notable design motifs of the Gothic Revival style: asymmetrical massing, the use of Tudor arches in the entranceway, battlements, label moldings over window openings, a corner tower which functions as a library, the use of foliated ornamentation, oriel windows, the use of leaded glass, and the use of stucco over local stone to give the structure a monochromatic, imposing appearance. The interior of Glenelg Manor displays a wide array of the finest Greek Revival detail extant in any rural Maryland house of this period. The typical hall, double parlor plan is expanded in size to fill the imposing proportions of the Gothic Revival exterior. The amply proportioned hall is notable for the use of the classical niche, plant-like motifs on the stair newel, and balusters and anthemion-decorated bronze wall lights. Shouldered door architraves with rosettes mark door openings into the parlors. The parlors themselves are opulent, separated by two pairs of sliding doors. Each parlor is in itself separated by Corinthian column screens and wall pilasters, and decorated with egg and dart and honeysuckle plasterwork, with central ceiling medallions. Baroque mantels of fine marble complete the design scheme.

The building has been used as Glenelg Country School since 1954.

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