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Welcome to this beautiful example of a Queen Ann style Victorian home located in Historic Lutherville Maryland. This wonderfully restored circa 1901 home, known as “Hazelwood”, has four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms and is situated on a large .82 acre corner lot. Additional structures on the site include an octagonal garden gazebo that predates the home (circa 1847) and a large Victorian style carriage house with three car garage, workspace, and second floor office overlooking the landscaped grounds. The many original details are joined by many enhancements including a large master bedroom with walk in closets and private bath, large gourmet kitchen, and a octagonal family entreating room with gas fire place. This wonderful home has the feel of a county Victorian while being only minutes from the beltway, rail line, and the city. Its location in idyllic Lutherville gives this home a unique feel of tranquility while being so close to everything Baltimore and its suburbs has to offer.

The house was purchased by its current owners in 1979 and painstakingly returned to its former glory, while updating it to fit today’s lifestyle. Inspired by the 1847 gazebo, the octagonal 22ft tall family room was added in 1989 to “bring the outdoors in” with its tall . It incorporated the historic style of the home and blends seamlessly with the original construction. Also added in 1993 was the large carriage house. The Victorian building also blends in seamlessly and has ample room for three cars, a workshop and professional office.

 House History

 The construction of the home began in 1899. It was designed by Mr. G.W. Payne of Carthage, IL to express the freedom and romance of the then popular Victorian era. The purchase price of the house when new was $2,500. Prior to Mr. and Mrs. Nixon’s purchase of the home in 1979, it was owned by Erma Davis Bates who was an internationally known artist famous for her fine etchings. The home was built on land originally owned by Mrs. Bates grandfather-- Mr. Ehrlaub, who helped found Lutherville in 1853. The home and fourteen acres was deeded to Mrs. Bates parents and they moved from Idaho to Maryland in 1998. Mrs. Bates used the home as her studio and residence until 1979. The house is characterized chiefly by the corner turret with its bell shaped dome roof. The gazebo, a remnant of an earlier house on the property was built circa 1847 and is one of the oldest structures in the community.

 Historic Lutherville History

 The Maryland Gazetteer for 1906 says that Lutherville was a "station on the North Central Railway, situated in Baltimore County, 2 ½ miles northwest of Towson Court House, the location of the nearest bank, and 10 [miles] north of Baltimore. Population, 600. Stage to Towson four times a day." The town had been started in 1852 by two Lutheran ministers, Drs. John Kurtz and John Morris, and Charles Morris, Dr. Morris’ brother and a Lutheran layman from York, Pennsylvania. The land they bought in 1851 had originally been a part of Mr. Charles Ridgely’s Hampton estate. Dr. Morris built his home, the first in Lutherville, in 1852. "Oak Grove" was owned by his descendants for over 100 years and some live in the village today. These men realized the need for a school for young ladies south of the Mason Dixon Line, so they founded and built the Lutherville Female Seminary, chartered in 1853. In 1895 the name was changed to the Maryland College for Women. In January, 1911 despite the efforts of the Lutherville Volunteer Fire Department and the companies from Towson and Roland Park, all buildings burned except the gymnasium, still standing today. By October of 1911, a new college had been built that remained in existence until 1952 when it was closed; and reopened as College Manor, a home for the elderly. In 1856 the cornerstone of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church was laid on ground donated by Dr. Morris. At first it was nondenominational without a regular pastor, the pulpit being filled by presidents of the Seminary. By 1869 it had become entirely Lutheran. The original wooden church building was torn down in 1898 when the present stone structure was built. Other churches are also present in the community: The St.John’s Methodist Church, built in 1869; the Edgewood Methodist Church, built in 1870; and the Episcopal Chapel of the Holy Comforter, built in 1888. The Reverend William Heilig, a Lutheran minister, built the Octagon house on Kurtz Avenue in 1855. This dwelling was said to have been the first concrete house in this part of the country. Rev. Heilig was also the postmaster and a Northern sympathizer; when Harry Gilmor’s raiders came and demanded money, he refused. They then drove his cattle into a swamp - an area today covered over by the beltway. When it was learned that the raiders were coming, silver was collected from the residents and hidden in a well on the Morris estate. The post office through the years has been in one end of the Lutherville Rail Road Station, the General Store at Morris and Front, then in the early 50’s in the Pollyette at Seminary and Front. In 1957 it was combined with Timonium on Ridgely Road near York (and subsequently moved to Deereco Rd.). The rail road called the Susquehanna was begun in 1829 and ran from Baltimore to Harrisburg, PA. It was taken over by the Pennsylvania Railroad and called the North Central Branch, which runs through Lutherville and was at one time the western border of the village. Most men of Lutherville commuted to businesses in the city to work as bankers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, clerks; boys and girls rode to school; housewives went to shop and to market; some rode to churches; the girls from the Seminary and College were passengers. In June, 1959 the local was discontinued, leaving only expresses and freight trains. In 1912, an electric trolley line using batteries began to operate between Towson and Timonium, the batteries being charged after every round trip. The route coming from Towson cut under a bridge on Seminary Avenue, then along Division Avenue to Timonium Road. In 1922 lack of patronage made it impossible to continue "the Toonerville Trolley". The Lutherville Volunteer Fire Department was organized in 1909 with equipment housed in a garage at 301 Morris Avenue, a building that is still standing. The department’s first motorized fire truck was purchased in 1913. It was not until 1928 that a new Engine House was built on Bellona Avenue at Division. In 1888, eleven years after the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, the first telephone central office was established in a general store operated by the Corkran brothers on the southeast corner of Front and Seminary Avenues, still standing. The exchange was moved to Towson in the early 1900’s. The first public school, begun in 1883, was at 1508 Bellona Avenue and had 70 pupils and two teachers. The cornerstone for the new, two-story school at Melancthon, Division and Bellona Avenues was laid Sept. 14, 1901. There were no lavatories in this building until the early 1920’s when the cloak rooms were taken over for this purpose. A $700,000 new school on York Road was built in 1952. "As compiled from many sources by Miss Lydia Berry, great-granddaughter of Dr. John G. Morris, the founder. October, 1967." Excerpted by William A. Andersen, 1999.