Bushwood Manor House

Name/Title

Bushwood Manor House

Entry/Object ID

1995.002.0003

Description

Water color by Father Stephen Tushak of Bushwood Manor House. It is a summer scene. A circular white drive brings people to the entrance to the house. It is a central brick block with symmetrical brick wings and additional brick additions, one two-story, on the each side. In addition, a story and a half hipped roof frame cottage is near on the left side and a spire roofed small white structure on the right side. There are inside end, corbeled cap chimneys on each side of the roof peak on each side of the central block. There are outside end corbeled chimneys on each brick addition. The central front door is five steps up from the drive and has a triangular pediment. It is flanked by one window on each side in the central block and there are two windows in the lower level of the wings. In the upper level, there are three windows in the central block and two in each wing. There is a semi-elliptical window in a triangular pediment above the second floor center. Six lower level windows are visible in the main block. There are two windows visible in the lower level of the two story addition and two windows in the upper level. This addition is connected to the main house by a brick walkway containing one brown door with a transom window and a four pane window to the left of the door. The single story addition to the right is connected by a brick walkway that has only a door and no windows. The little building has an outside end corbeled chimney and one 12 paned window in the front and another small window visible in the eaves. The shutters for all the windows in the main house and the additions are green. Just past the two story brick addition if a story and a half frame building with a central transomed door flanked by two shuttered windows. There are two dormered windows in the roof. On the opposite end of the house is a small square building with a four sided steepled roof. It has one visible window with green shutters. Text below image: "Bushwood Manor House St. Mary's County Maryland" Text on verso: "Bushwood Manor House before its Victorian additions, painted by the Rev. Stephen J. Tushak of Walford, Iowa Presented to Charles E. Fenwick, Leonardtown, Md., March 25, 1954" This picture is not signed See 1995.001.0562 for correspondence relative to Fr. Tushak and the paintings

Collection

Stephen J. Tushak Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1953 - 1954

Dimensions

Height

13-13/16 in

Width

16-3/4 in

Location

Container

Tushak Collection Box 2

Table

Archives 1 Counter

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

Tushak Collection Box 2

Table

Archives 1 Counter

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Tushak, Stephen J. (1900-1959)

Person or Organization

Fenwick, Charles Edward (1910-1993)