Bellefields (Croom, Maryland)

Bellefields is a manor house located in Croom, Prince George's County, Maryland. It was constructed about 1720. It is a brick structure in Flemish bond with random glazed headers, and two stories over a high basement. The structure is rectangular, with gabled roof sections, paired interior end chimneys, a front center entrance, wide raised belt course above the first floor, flat arched openings, and flanking symmetrical single-story wings. It is in the Georgian style. It was the home of Patrick Sim, Scottish immigrant and of his son, Col. Joseph Sim, Maryland patriot.[2]

Bellefields
Bellefields, November 2011
Location13104 Duley Station Road,
Croom, Maryland
Coordinates38°44′45″N 76°46′38″W
Builtc. 1720
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.71001027 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 10, 1971
Bellefields Plantation House from a 1936 Historic American Buildings Survey photograph

History

Later, sometime after 1849, William Duckett Bowie lived there with his second wife.[3][4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

Notable people
  • William Williams (c. 1793-1814), born Frederick Hall on the Bellefields Plantation and as an escaped slave enlisted in 38th U.S. Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army dying from his wounds after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Mrs. Preston Parish (March 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bellefields" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  3. Spencer, Richard Henry (1919). Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland. New York: American Historical Society. p. 392. ISBN 0-8328-5943-5.
  4. Hall, Clayton Colman (1912). Baltimore: Its History and Its People. 3. Lewis Historical Publishing Co. pp. 303–306.

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