Fort Frederick Officers’ Quarters

The Governor’s House at Fort Frederick served as the officers’ quarters, ceremonial hall, and storeroom. Its foundation reveals the building’s size and general layout, and a 1778 letter by Samuel Hughes identifies it as a two-story timber-framed structure with weatherboard siding and a wood-shingled roof, but no plans, sketches, or early images are known. To guide reconstruction, researchers examined similar military and regional buildings from the 1756 period, especially those within a one hundred mile radius, and consulted archival resources including the Library of Congress, the Historic American Building Surveys, private collections, original guidebooks for carpenters, and period design books to identify common building practices and stylistic features for the reconstructed officers quarters.

Maryland · United States