Tudor Hall

Harford County preservation isn't all about buffering dirt tracks for the Pentagon, indeed this past year saw the purchase of what is perhaps the most historically significant house in the region: Tudor Hall.

In 1824 famed actor Junius Brutus Booth moved his family to a little farm just outside Bel Air, Maryland. Why would an actor move to such a rural area in 1824? Well, it seems that old JB had two families: one at Tudor Hall, and one he had left in England, whom he was hiding from. The Booths it seems, were always a trifle odd.
Observing the historical marker placed on the highway one will learn that Tudor Hall was home to Junius and his son Edwin, one of history's greatest Shakespearean actors. It somehow fails to mention that it was also home to one of America's greatest villains: John Wilkes Booth.
On top of all this, the house itself is impossibly charming. Christopher Weeks calls it "one of the earliest Gothic Revival cottages in Maryland and remains one of the finest examples of the style in America." We hope to see Tudor Hall open to the public sometime in the near future.