Mount Airy Mansion


  • Address: 7805 W Marlton Ave
  • Type: Mansion
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1675/00/00 Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore Home Mount Airy is originally built as a hunting lodge for his Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore.
1751/00/00 Benedict Swingate Calvert Home Benedict inherits Mount Airy tabacco plantation.
1774/02/03 George Washington Guest George Washington attends the nuptials of his adopted son, John Park Custis, to Eleanor Calvert at Mount Airy.
1774/02/03 John Parke Custis Groom Eleanor Calvert, daughter of Benedict S Calvert and Elizabeth Calvert, marries John P Custis the bride's family home. For two or three years after their marriage, the young couple will live alternately at Mount Vernon and Mount Airy.
1799/01/09 Benedict Swingate Calvert Died Benedict Swingate Calvert dies at home, Mount Airy. He is buried beneath the chancel of the church of St Thomas in Croom.
1931/04/00 Cissy Patterson Home After a fire in 1931 left only the masonry walls standing, Cissy Patterson buys the Mount Airy ruins and restores them to their former glory.

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Particulars for Mount Airy Mansion:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Building Type Mansion
Criteria Person
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History




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