White House of Giles Brent

Art

St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

1995.002.0037

Description

Water color by Father Stephen J. Tushak of the White House of Giles Brent, Saint Mary's City, Md. It is a summer scene. This is a story and a half frame house with two corbel capped chimneys and a gable roof with a salt-box effect. There are three dormers on the visible side of the house, one with a gable roof and two with hipped roofs. There is an inside end single-stack chimney on the left side of the house and an outside end single-stack chimney on the right. The chimney on the left is not quite centered on the roof peak; more of it is on the far side of the roof. There are two second floor windows; the small one toward the back of the house has its top left corner cut off by the roof line. There are two windows in the end of the first floor. On the visible side of the house on the first floor is one nine over nine window, a door with a transom light, and two more nine over nine windows. Vines create a bower effect over the door. There are several steps up to the stoop and a wrought iron railing is on each side of the steps. One basement window is visible. To the right of this house is another story and a half house with a gable roof. It has a massive single-stack outside end chimney with a corbel cap. There is a small window on the second floor next to the chimney and a gable roof dormer is visible in the roof. A twelve-light window is visible on the first floor. On the left side of the house is a partially visible low structure of red brick which joins the first house to another story and a half house. This structure has a door facing away from the house. There may be a window in the wall paralleling the house. The second house has a single stack inside end chimney which exits from the end wall a foot or so below the peak rather than from the roof . There are two small windows on the second floor end and a single dormer in the visible roof. There is a twelve-light window visible on the first floor. Text within image: "White House of Giles Brent, St. Mary's City St. Mary's Co. Md" Text on verso: "Painted by Rev. Stephen J. Tushak Holy Trinity Rectory Walford, Iowa Presented by him to Charles E. Fenwick, Leonardtown, Md., March 25, 1959" This picture is signed "S. J. Tushak" at the base of the tree See 1995.001.0562 for correspondence relative to Fr. Tushak and the paintings

Collection

Stephen J. Tushak Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1958 - 1959

Dimensions

Height

14 in

Width

18 in

Location

Container

Tushak Collection Box 13

Table

Archives 1 Counter

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

Tushak Collection Box 13

Table

Archives 1 Counter

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Fenwick, Charles Edward (1910-1993)

Person or Organization

Tushak, Stephen J. (1900-1959)

Person or Organization

Brent, Giles