Built in 1813, probably by Daniel Megredy, this house entertained Lafayette in 1824. It was later owned by Cornelius Smith (1792–1858), a farmer and philanthropist who financed road construction to create jobs for the unemployed and aided public education in Port Deposit. In 1858, Smith willed the house to his stepgrandson, Lucius A. C. Gerry, who saw action in the Civil War as artillery officer in Capt. Alonzo Snow’s Battery B.