• Billingsley House Museum
  • Upper Marlboro, MD

  • Billingsley House Museum is owned and maintained by The Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission. Brawner was selected as the construction manager and managed all facets of roofing and masonry repairs,  on behalf of the owner. The trade contractor’s scope of work consisted of cedar shake roof restoration, dormer siding and trim, low sloped copper roof, and chimney restoration. The project was unique for Brawner as the land and structures are rich in history.

  • Fall 2020

Although Major John Billingsley never lived on the property he acquired from Lord Baltimore on the Patuxent River and the Western Branch in 1662, his name has been associated for centuries with the area. The house that today sits on the land was built in 1740 by James Weems, a prominent doctor, businessman, and office holder. It replaced an older house that Prince George’s County’s first Chief Justice, Colonel Thomas Hollyday, constructed in 1695.

Visitors will marvel at this extraordinary example of Tidewater Colonial plantation architecture. Though slight renovations to the site occurred periodically through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the brick house’s period decor vibrantly evokes mid-Atlantic life before the American Revolution.

https://www.americanheritage.com/content/billingsley-house-museum