M: 18-11-11 OOd Fellows ' I.odge Boyds Private

c. 1916

This mce handsane two stoi:y fraire building was cmstructed as the meeting hall for the OdcUFellows' Society, a Black benefit and social organizaticn. Its imposing design and spacirus interior reveal the relative affluence of the Black landavners in the Boyds camrunity, who canprisad the Society. Tl1is is me of the few structures of such organizations in historical Black carmunities to have survived in .Montganei:y County.

Magi # MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST M: 18-11-11

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

0NAME HISTORIC

Old Fellows' I.pdge AND/OfG:OMMON

fJLOCATION STREET & NUMBER

West side of White Gramds Pd. CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Boyds _ VICINITY OF 8 STATE COUNTY

Montgonery

DcLASSIFICATION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE _DISTRICT _PUBLIC _OCCUPIED _AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM

_lfsulLDING(S) ~PRIVATE X UNOCCUPIED _COMMERCIAL __ PARK ,..--

X...STRUCTURE _BOTH _WORK IN PROGRESS _EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE

_SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE _ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS

-OBJECT _IN PROCESS ~YES: RESTRICTED __ GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC

_BEING CONSIDERED _YES: UNRESTRICTED _INDUSTRIAL _TRANSPORTATION

No -NO _MILITARY ~OTHER:

DOWNER OF PROPERTY abandcned

NAME

Not l j sted m the County Tax Mal? Telephonl;! #: STREET & NUMBER

CITY. TOWN STATE I zip code _ VICINITY OF

llLOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION Liber #: COURTHOUSE. Folio #: REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

No deed is listed en the County Tax Map STREET & NUMBER

CITY. TOWN STATE

111REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE

DATE

DEPOSITORY FOR

SURVEY RECORDS

CITY.TOWN

_FEDERAL -STATE _COUNTY _LOCAL

STATE

B DESCRIPTION

CONDITION

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_DETERIORATED

_RUINS

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_UNALTERED

.k'ALTERED

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&RIGINAL SITE

-MOVED DATE __ _

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

This abandoned, once handsc:me frame building stands on the west side of White Grounds Road. It is now in derelict cmditicn. The interior has been thoroughly vandalized, and the windcws knocked rut.

The building consists of two secticns. The front block is three bays in length and cne bay in depth. To the back of it is attached a two story ell, both sections were built at the same time. The balloon frame of the house is covered with weatherboards, which were paintec~b~ey. The roof line is accented by a cross gable pediment which contained a ~~11 window- in a diamond design. Similar windcws in the attic of each gable end give the building a more attractive appearance. The other windcws in the building contain double hung sashes with two over two lights. The front door is relatively plain but is accented by a transan light ..

The interior of the building consisqs of three roans down and three up. en the south side is the large auditorium or gathering roan for the members of the 00.d Fellcws' Society. It had been thoroughly vandalized but a old piano with carved legs does remain. en the north side of the building is a small roan in which a bar had been set up. In the bar a boxed stairway leads to the roan above and above the auditorium are two roans, which were presumably used as private meeting rcx:ms for the members. The woc:xlwork inside the building consists of plain tongue and groove siding for pe:ti­tions. In the auditorium, there ·is wainscotting. The roans downstairs and upstairs were heated by stoves which were piped in to a brick flue ascending between the auditorium and the smaller roans 01 the north side.

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY

, _a SIGNIFICANCE

PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

_PREHfSTORIC -ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ..lt:OMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION

_1400-1499 -ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION _LAW _SCIENCE

_1500-1599 -AGRICULTURI; _ECONOMICS _LITERATURE _SCULPTURE

_1600-1699 MRCHITECTURE _EDUCATION _MILITARY ~OCIAUHUMANITARIAN _1700-1799 -ART _ENGINEERING _MUSIC _THEATER

-1800-1899 _COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY _TRANSPORTATION

.J..-1900· _COMMUNICATIONS _INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY!

_INVENTION

SPECIFIC DATES 1v.r-12gc

BUILDER/ ARCHITECT

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

This parcel of property is shown on the property map but there is no deed recorded for this tract of land. Therefore, no title search is poss;.. ible. Nonetheless, the building itself can be dated because Mrs. Edna Duffin Johnson who was born in 1891 in the White Grounds ccmnunity recalls that this building was cmstructed for the O:ld Fellows' Society when she was in her 20's. That is, it was probablybuilt between 1915 and 1920, as best as she can remember.

The principal significance of this building is that it is a physical ___vestige of one on the organizations of the historical Black carmunity.

ie to the loss of population in this carmunity, there_ have been no, younger members to replace the older ones, and the Society exists no longer in the White Grounds carmunity. This building ha.vever does remain and its impos-. ing design and relatively handsane appearance -- when it was maintained -reveal the ~ity of the Black carmunity in the White Grounds carmunity.

Like the Loving Charity Hall in the Martinsburg ccmnunity, and in the Jerusalem carmunity, the 0:1d Fellow Iodge was one 6f the principal centers for the Black ccmnunity. This is one of the few buildings of that Society that remain standing in rural Mcntganery County.

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY

IJMAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

Land records, Registry of Deeds~ Montgomery County Courthouse, Rockville,, Md.

Interviews (not taped) with Edna Duffin Johnson and Lorraine Duffin~ Boyds, Md. Feb. - March 1979

CONTINUE ON SEJ?AMTE SHEET If NECESSAAY

IIiJGEOGRAPHICALDATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY _______ _

VERBAL BOUNDARY DE.SCRIPTION

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE COUNTY

STATE COUNTY

mFORM PREPARED BY NAME I TITLE

George w. McDaniel ORGANIZATION

Tamar Hoewing, Research Assistant Karen Sewell, Research Assistant

. DATE

Sugarloaf Regional TrajJs TELEPHi3NE STREET & NUMBER

Box 87 926-45]0 CITY OR TOWN STATE

Dickerson 'MQrylana

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 Supplement.

The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringe­ment of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: SUGARLOAF REGIONAL TRAILS Box 87, Stronghold

Dickerson, Md. 20753 (301) 926-4510

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