Introduction

This walking tour (map of houses) was created for the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Town of Brookeville in 1994. It is intended to provide a lasting record of the built environment of the Town as it exists 200 years after its founding. It is a guide to the wealth of architectural style and variety found within this small community of approximately 49 buildings which comprise the town in 1994.

This guide is somewhat unique in that the tour is given in two voices: the architec-tural descriptions are intended to impart a greater technical understanding of the buildings and their style; the anecdotal comments (written in italics) insert a more human element into the bricks and mortar. Hopefully those who visit Brookeville with guidebook in hand will leave with a better sense of the Town's diversity and enough understanding of its architecture to place it in the wider context of build-ings throughout the county.

To assist the visitor, a glossary of architectural terms which may be unfamiliar is included (page 28): A word which is underlined in the text marks the first use of any term found in the glossary.

Introductory Anecdotal Comments

With the passing of years, houses change owners. To "old timers" who remember "back when," the houses will forever be referred to by the names of those associ-ated with them in the past, while more recent arrivals to Brookeville remember the houses by the owners during their time.

Many of the memories of former Brookeville residents center around simple plea-sures, such as Sunday walks to Olney...or sledding in the Howard meadow across from Valley House, behind the Jordan house, or from the Linton house across the field into the yard at 308 Market Street. Brookeville was also the kind of summer retreat where many people came to live and enjoy the fresh air and "chalybeate springs."

Many of the houses have (or had) nice front porches where we sat to enjoy a summer breeze before the sound, smell and dirt of traffic made it too unpleasant to be there. Map of Houses

Hopefully, some of us will live to see some relief from the traffic, so that we will once again be able to enjoy our porches, walks and cleaner air.

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