The Douglass Summer House is a historic home at Highland Beach

Highland Beach, Maryland

Highland Beach is a town in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 109 at the 2000 census. The town was founded early in the 20th Century by affluent African Americans from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, looking for a retreat on the Chesapeake Bay. The town's incorporated...

, Anne Arundel County

Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

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. It was built in 1894-95, is one of the first built in the small community of Highland Beach and is the oldest structure remaining at that place. The house was built in 1894-95 by Major Charles Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...

 (1818-1895). It is a -story Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a one-story wraparound porch and a corner tower. A meticulous renovation in 1987 maintained a majority of the original interior and exterior fabric of the building.

The Douglass Summer House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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in 1992.

External links

• Douglass Summer House, Anne Arundel County, including photo from 1990, at Maryland Historical Trust