Butler House (Oxon Hill, Maryland)
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Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Butler House was a historic home of importance to local African American history and located at Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Henry Alexander Butler, a free African American man from Charles County, moved with his family to the property in 1853, and the property has been continuously associated with the Butler family. Henry Butler became a Reconstruction era community leader, serving as trustee of the nearby Freedmen's Bureau school. The Butler House was a <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+1⁄2-story, one room deep wood-frame and log residence covered in cast stone. It sat in a secluded, forested area, adjacent to the Oxon Hill Children's Farm.[1] As of December 2010, the house is in a severely dilapidated condition. In 2020 the house collapsed and the property was sold in 2019.
The Butler House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[2]
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External links
- Template:MHT url, including photo in 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust website
- M-NCPPC African-American Heritage Survey, October 1996: Other Historic Properties; Butler House, entry 76A-14 p. 130
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- Houses completed in 1853
- Houses in Prince George's County, Maryland
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- African-American history of Prince George's County, Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places in Prince George's County, Maryland
- Oxon Hill, Maryland