Pemberton Hall is a gambrel-roofed, three-room-plan house built in 1741. It is distinguished by Flemish bond brickwork with glazed header patterning, plastered cove cornices, and extensive original mid-eighteenth-century interior woodwork and detail. Isaac Handy (1706-1762) and his wife Anne built Pemberton Hall on land purchased from Joseph Pemberton in 1726. In addition to being a sizable landowner and merchant planter, Isaac Handy served as a justice of the peace, a colonel in the Maryland militia, and a member of the provincial assembly. Handy family ownership continued until 1835. The east end kitchen wing, constructed circa 1785, has been reconstructed on its original location. Pemberton Hall is owned by The Pemberton Hall Foundation, which is carrying out a detailed restoration based on extensive documentary, architectural, and archeological research. Interior furnishings are based on three eighteenth-century probate inventories for Pemberton Hall.
