Desirable Spaces

July 20, 2008

Desirable Spaces

Owings Mills house has a story-filled past

Stories about the white clapboard house at the former Pleasant Grove Farm in Owings Mills abound, including that Confederate soldiers sought food and horses from the anti-slavery family of Richard Scott and that Confederate sympathizers tore down his flagpole because he flew a U.S. flag.

July 13, 2008

Desirable Spaces

Towson dream house had starring TV role

When Marian Matthis first saw the center-hall colonial brick house in West Towson some four years ago, she was seduced by its charm, large rooms and yard.

June 29, 2008

Desirable Spaces

Modern touches for a 1910 house

When Elliot and Janell Bonner bought the white house overlooking a corner in Mount Washington, they knew they could make it suit them perfectly, adding modern amenities and overhauling the major systems of the 1910 structure.

June 22, 2008

Desirable Spaces

Fine views abound in wooded setting

In 1973, Anita Kaplan knew what she wanted in a custom home on an Owings Mills hillside: "I wanted a lot of open space, not a typical house."