Name/Title
Porto BelloEntry/Object ID
1995.002.0015Description
Water color by Father Stephen Tushak of Porto Bello, Drayden, Md. It is a summer scene. The main house is on the right and two additions are on the left. The main house is a white two story, with an attic, a gambrel roof and a five bay porch across the entire first floor. There is an outside end, twin-stack chimney on the right and an inside end, twin-stack chimney on the left. All the chimneys are corbel capped. On the visible side of the house, there are three shed dormers with double hung six-light windows on the lower slope of the roof. There is a center door on the first floor, flanked by pairs of double hung six-light windows. Each window has green shutters. There is a white porch railing. On the visible end by the first addition is a single second floor window. If there is a window on the lower level, it is obscured by bushes. The first addition is also two story, although not as large or as tall as the main house. It, too, has a gambrel roof, but no dormers. On the second floor, the roof overhang appears to create a sunporch with floor to ceiling glass doors behind the porch rail. This also creates a four-bay porch on the lower level, but it is not enclosed, not does it have a railing. There is a door on the right side of the first floor and three eight-light windows with green shutters to the left. The second addition appears to be smaller and shorter, but is depicted as a story and a half with a garret window. The same gambrel roof line is used and there is a barely visible dormer in this part of the building. A flat roof projects from the eaves to form a porch, also without a railing, across the entire width of the building. There is a door on the left and two twelve-light windows with green shutters on the right. On the end of this addition is a partially enclosed, single stack chimney, which exits the roof just aft of its peak. There are windows on each side of the chimney on the first floor, a single window in front of the chimney on the second floor,and an attic window in front of the chimney. There is a low fall down to the flower beds in the lower yard.
Text below image: "Porto Bello St. Mary's County Maryland"
Text on verso: "Painted by Rev. Stephen J. Tushak Holy Trinity Rectory Walford, Iowa Presented to Charles E. Fenwick, Leonardtown, Md., May 11, 1954"
This picture is not signed
See 1995.001.0562 for correspondence relative to Fr. Tushak and the paintingsCollection
Stephen J. Tushak CollectionDimensions
Height
14 inWidth
16-3/4 inLocation
Container
Tushak Collection Box 6Table
Archives 1 CounterRoom
Archives 1Building
Tudor HallContainer
Tushak Collection Box 6Table
Archives 1 CounterRoom
Archives 1Building
Tudor HallRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Tushak, Stephen J. (1900-1959)Person or Organization
Fenwick, Charles Edward (1910-1993)