Historic "Cliffeholme" sold at auction

(Baltimore Sun) ... The house, first built in the Italianate style, went through a major renovation and expansion in 1928 to its current early 20th-century English Revival style, said Orlando Ridout, an architectural historian in the research section for the Maryland Historical Trust. The property was bought in 1872 by Charles Morton Stewart, a Baltimore shipping merchant who made his fortune importing Brazilian coffee to Baltimore. He bought the home as a summer house and expanded it for his large family and guests, who included the English novelist Charles Dickens, according to "The Green Spring Valley: Its History and Heritage," published by the Maryland Historical Society in 1978. Continued