Hope House

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Hope is one of the great mansions of Talbot. Not only was it the home of illustrious members of the Tilghman and Lloyd families, it is one of the genuinely unique dwellings of its day and one of the best executed dwellings of the early 20th century. When built, Hope resembled in composition Mt. Clare, Baltimore, the home of Charles Carroll and his wife, aunt of the builder of Hope. Hope is considerably later, built about fifty years after Mt. Clare. Its original configuration consisted of the present central section with roof not quite as tall, with two 1 1/2-story frame wings connected by ogee-roofed hyphens, a truly dramatic composition. An old photo and the outline of one of the original hyphens were the basis for the design of the present hyphens. A 1907 photograph shows a single hyphen on one side of the main block and a two-story brick wing on the other. Both appear to date to the 1870s. A mid-19th century daguerreotype shows small brick hyphens with ogee roofs and 1 1/2-story frame wing.

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