Thainston

Thainston
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
In 2020
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Location	Mitchell Rd., north of Maryland Route 225, La Plata, Maryland
Coordinates	38°34′6″N 77°0′35″W / 38.56833°N 77.00972°W / 38.56833; -77.00972
Area	378.6 acres (153.2 ha)
Built	1865 (1865)
Built by	Faxon, Eben; Ogle, Charles
Architectural style	Mid 19th Century Revival
NRHP reference No.	90000436[1]
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1990

Thainston is a farm complex and national historic district in La Plata, Charles County, Maryland, United States. The main house is a two-story, L-shaped brick house built in 1865 and enlarged early in the 20th century. It was designed by Eben Faxon, a Baltimore architect, and constructed under the supervision of Charles Ogle, a building contractor also from Baltimore. The farm developed between 1865 and the 1930s. Included on the property are a number of early dependencies, including a wellhouse, a brick dairy, a storage building, and a meathouse. A frame garage and large chicken house, both dating from the early 1900s, are on the property. There is also a collection of agricultural buildings including: tobacco barns, cattle barns, and equipment sheds clustered around a corncrib/granary. There are three frame tenant houses, several associated sheds, a probably early building site, an early well, a pit remaining from a former ice house, and the former ice ponds. Another early-20th century building, a tobacco barn, stands in a field to the west of the main grouping of agricultural buildings.^[2]

Thainston was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

• Thainston, Charles County, including photo dated 1989, at Maryland Historical Trust