Difference between revisions of "Country house for Lawrence Turnbull"
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No. 137 on J. Appleton Wilson's list of Executed Projects "Country house for Lawrence Turnbull nr. Govanstown." Turnbull was a repeat Wilson and Wilson client, having commissioned 9 houses in the 1200 block of John Street in 1880 and 5 houses in the unit block of East Lafayette Avenue in 1884. | No. 137 on J. Appleton Wilson's list of Executed Projects "Country house for Lawrence Turnbull nr. Govanstown." Turnbull was a repeat Wilson and Wilson client, having commissioned 9 houses in the 1200 block of John Street in 1880 and 5 houses in the unit block of East Lafayette Avenue in 1884. | ||
− | This is the house that Bayard Turnbull, one of Lawrence's children, rented to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. | + | This is the house that Bayard Turnbull, one of Lawrence's children, rented to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in the mid-1930s. |
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+ | Lawrence Turnbull (1843-1919) was a lawyer, publisher, and Presbyterian preacher. A graduate of Princeton, he clerked for Severn Teackle Wallis, the dean of the Baltimore bar, then launched a monthly magazine called The New Eclectic to bring the latest English writing to readers in the war-devastated south. He brought poet Sidney Lanier to Baltimore and endowed a lecture series at the Peabody Institute. He lived at 1530 Park Avenue, the northernmost house in Beethoven Terrace, for which he is believed to have suggested the name. Grace Turnbull, the sculptor, and Bayard Turnbull, the architect and friend of Scott Fitzgerald, were two of his six children. |
Revision as of 18:45, January 23, 2022
Country house for Lawrence Turnbull | |
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Site Information | |
Address | La Paix Lane |
Geo-reference | 39°23′10″N 76°36′25″W / 39.3862°N 76.60694°W |
Owner | Lawrence Turnbull |
Building Data | |
Building Type | Dwelling |
Architectural Style | Shingle Style |
Material | Shingle |
Design | |
Architect | J. Appleton Wilson |
Architecture Firm | Wilson and Wilson |
Construction | |
Start Date | 1884 |
Completed | Abt: 1884 |
Razed | Abt: 1960 |
No. 137 on J. Appleton Wilson's list of Executed Projects "Country house for Lawrence Turnbull nr. Govanstown." Turnbull was a repeat Wilson and Wilson client, having commissioned 9 houses in the 1200 block of John Street in 1880 and 5 houses in the unit block of East Lafayette Avenue in 1884.
This is the house that Bayard Turnbull, one of Lawrence's children, rented to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in the mid-1930s.
Lawrence Turnbull (1843-1919) was a lawyer, publisher, and Presbyterian preacher. A graduate of Princeton, he clerked for Severn Teackle Wallis, the dean of the Baltimore bar, then launched a monthly magazine called The New Eclectic to bring the latest English writing to readers in the war-devastated south. He brought poet Sidney Lanier to Baltimore and endowed a lecture series at the Peabody Institute. He lived at 1530 Park Avenue, the northernmost house in Beethoven Terrace, for which he is believed to have suggested the name. Grace Turnbull, the sculptor, and Bayard Turnbull, the architect and friend of Scott Fitzgerald, were two of his six children.