Mulberry Fields is a historic home located at Beauvue

Beauvue, Maryland

Beauvue is an unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. Mulberry Fields was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.-References:...

, St. Mary's County, Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

, United States

United States

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. It was built about 1763, and is a large -story, 5-bay

Bay (architecture)

A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:...

 by 2-bay, hip-roofed

Hip roof

A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side...

 brick house. On the front is a two-story Doric

Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...

 portico, built about 1820. The house is the only remaining Georgian

Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...

 "mansion-type" home in an area and has a panoramic view of the Potomac River

Potomac River

The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The river is approximately long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles...

, with a the mile-long allee stretching downhill to the riverbank..

Mulberry Fields was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1973.

External links

• Mulberry Fields, St. Mary's County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Mulberry Fields, State Route 244, Valley Lee vicinity, St. Mary's County, MD: 13 photos, 1 data page at Historic American Building Survey