Amelung House and Glassworks

Historic house in Maryland

United States historic place


Amelung House and Glassworks
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Amelung house in 1936
39°18′2″N 77°24′11″W / 39.30056°N 77.40306°W / 39.30056; -77.40306
Area	40 acres (16 ha)
Built	1785 (1785)
Architectural style	Georgian, Late Georgian
NRHP reference No.	73000919^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 3, 1973

The Amelung House and Glassworks is a historic home located at Urbana, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, late-Georgian brick home on a stone foundation built about 1785. The property once had the New Bremen glassworks built by Johann Friedrich Amelung after he came to Maryland in 1784; no above-ground remains of the factory remain. Fine examples of New Bremen glass work may be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; and Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware.^[2]

The Amelung House and Glassworks was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Pamela James (August 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Amelung House and Glassworks" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

External links

Amelung House and Glassworks, Frederick County, including photo from 1968, at Maryland Historical Trust
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-32, "John Frederick Amelung House, Park Mills Road, Urbana, Frederick County, MD", 2 photos, 2 data pages
The Amelung Excavation Papers, 1962-1975 are held at the Rakow Research Library of the Corning Museum of Glass. (Retrieved 23 October 2015)

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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