Sudbrook Park
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Sudbrook Park Early romantic suburb designed in 1889 by Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr., father of landscape architecture in America, on 204 acres of James Howard McHenry's "Sudbrook" estate. Olmstead designed a naturalistic landscape with curvilinear roads intersecting at triangular islands. In an early application of comprehensive land-use regulation, lots were sold subject to 16 restrictions suggested by Olmstead.
Not surviving are 2 original cottages, the Western Maryland railway station, a hotel, a livery stable, and a 9-hole golf course added in 1898. A National Register and Baltimore County Historic District Maryland Historical Trust Maryland State Highway Administration
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