The Ellicott House 
AN ATTRACTIVE HOME NEAR BALTIMORE, MD. 
By ELIZABETH KING ELLICOTT 
T HE house is one of a group of buildings by 
Ellicott & Emmart carried out in white 
cement in Italian and in Colonial styles. It 
faces the north on a pentagonal lot with its short 
side, about 112 feet, toward the road. The house has 
a frontage of 90 feet and the kitchen wing on the east 
is balanced by the loggia on the west. Across the 
south end is an open cement terrace, 60 feet long by 
17 feet wide. 
The hall is 12x35 feet, opening through under 
the stair landing to the south terrace. It is furnished 
in old mahogany and the woodwork is painted green 
to accord with the forest paper on the walls. To the 
right is the French drawing-room, paneled and 
painted in Trianon grey and furnished in antique 
French and; Italian furniture. It opens into the 
library, 17x24 feet. This room is furnished in 
THE STAIR HALL IN THE ELLICOTT HOUSE 
dark oak and has a leather paper which carries the 
green of the hall while introducing a note of red. 
T he French windows to the south and west open out 
on the loggia and terrace and overlook a distant 
view. 
Across the hall are the den and dining-room. 
The latter is a Colonial room, furnished in old 
mahogany, repeating the green of the hall modified 
into peacock tints, and it has a mass of flowers and 
plants in the windows looking east and south. 
1 he pantries, kitchen and servants’ dining-room 
are grouped in the eastern wing. The second story 
contains four family bedrooms and two baths; the 
hall extends through the house and is used as a 
sitting-room instead of a fifth bedroom, which 
otherwise might be had. T he servants’ bedrooms 
and bath-room are located in the third story. 
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