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Wye Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	505 Wye Hall Dr., near Queenstown, Maryland
Coordinates	38°53′20″N 76°7′7″W / 38.88889°N 76.11861°W / 38.88889; -76.11861
Area	212 acres (86 ha)
Built	1936 (1936)
Architect	Tilden, Register and Pepper
Architectural style	Georgian Revival
NRHP reference No.	15000759
Added to NRHP	November 2, 2015

Wye Hall is a historic house at 505 Wye Hall Drive in rural southern Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It is located on the north side of the eastern point of Wye Island. It is a handsome Georgian Revival house, built in 1936 to a design by Tilden, Register and Pepper, for businessman William Stillwell. It is set on a series of landscaped terraces, at the location of the plantation mansion of American Founding Father and Governor of Maryland William Paca. William Paca is buried at the family cemetery there. The Paca residence burned down in 1879. The University of Maryland, College Park conducted archeological work there.

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "NRHP nomination for Wye Hall" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
3. Grzincic, Barbara (2005). "Court of Special Appeals awards Wye Hall contractor right to". The Daily Record.
4. Hester D. Richardson (1995). Side-Lights on Maryland History. Clearfield Company. ISBN 978-0-8063-0296-6.
5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2009-03-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Aspen Wye Conference Center, The Aspen Institute
• Historic Houses - Wye Hall - Wye Island, Maryland Historical Society
• Historic Houses - William Paca House - Queenstown, MD, Maryland Historical Society

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Historic districts	Centreville Historic District Stevensville Historic District
Historic properties	Bachelor's Hope Bishopton Bloomingdale Bowlingly Capt. John H. Ozmon Store Captain's Houses Centreville Armory Chester Hall Christ Church Churchill Theater Content Cray House Dudley's Chapel Female Seminary Friendship Hawkins Pharsalia Jackson Collins House John Embert Farm Keating House Kennersley Lansdowne Legg's Dependence Lexon MYSTERY Mattapax Readbourne Reed's Creek Farm St. Andrew's Episcopal Chapel St. Luke's Church St. Peter's Church Stevensville Bank Stratton Thomas House Wilton Wye Mill
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Queen Anne's County, Maryland and List of National Historic Landmarks in Maryland

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