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{{Infobox building
| name = The Rossborough Inn
| image =
| caption =
| location = South campus, on Baltimore Avenue
University of Maryland, College Park campus
| building_type = Enrollment Management Offices
| style = Federal
| coordinates = {{coord|38.9853|-76.9376|type:landmark|display=it}}
| completion_date = 1812
| demolition_date =
| namesake = The Ross Family (proprietors)
| architect = John Ross (?)
| status = Oldest building on campus and in the City of College Park
| website =
}}The Rossborough Inn is a historic building facing Baltimore Avenue/United States Route 1 (also formerly known as the old Washington Boulevard and the Washington and Baltimore Turnpike) on the eastern edge of the campus of the University of Maryland at College Park. Construction on the building began in 1798 and was completed in 1812, making it the oldest building on campus (older than the university itself - 1856) and the oldest building in the adjoining town of the City of College Park.[1] It is built in the Federal style. The lower wings were added in 1938, as part of extensive renovations. The Rossborough Inn is listed as a historic site by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.[2]

The inn and tavern was constructed by land speculator John Ross, to serve people traveling between Baltimore and Washington D.C. (on the old Washington and Baltimore Turnpike).[3] According to Anne Turkos, the archivist for the University of Maryland Libraries, the name '"Rossborough"' refers to the name of the area the inn was built on in the late 18th Century and early 19th Century, after landowner Richard Ross ("Rossborough" was used interchangeably with "Rossburg" as late as the 1920s).[4] By 1835, financial troubles had doomed the business and the building was being used as a farmhouse by its owner, Charles Benedict Calvert, (1808-1864), whose family owned the nearby Riverdale Plantation. In 1858, Calvert donated the land that the Rossborough building sat on to the Maryland Agricultural College (now University of Maryland at College Park).[5]

The Rossborough Inn was a faculty residence when, in 1864, during the Civil War, Confederate Army General Bradley T. Johnson (of Frederick, Maryland) and his cavalry brigade occupied the university grounds, utilizing the building as his headquarters.[3]

The building has been used for a variety of purposes since. Currently it contains the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, but it has acted as the home of University of Maryland Faculty and Alumni Club and housed a restaurant, "The Carriage House", that served lunch on weekdays.[1]

According to campus lore, the Rossborough Inn is haunted.[6]

Extensive renovations by the university (aided by the federal government) have resulted in a significantly more contemporary appearance than the original.[3][7] Carved in the keystone above the front door is the head of Silenus, made of a rare Coade stone.[2][8]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collegeparkmd.gov/History.htm |title=History |publisher=Collegeparkmd.gov |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}
2. ^http://www.pgplanning.org/Assets/Planning/Historic+Preservation/pages+21_73.pdf
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=13163 |title=The Rossborough Inn Marker |publisher=Hmdb.org |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.terp.umd.edu/3.3/askanne/ |title=Ask Anne, TERP Magazine Spring 2006 |publisher=Terp.umd.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.umd.edu/timeline/ |title=University of Maryland Timeline|accessdate=2015-05-23}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/culture/print.cfm?articleID=828 |title=Haunted Maryland :: University Communications Newsdesk, University of Maryland |publisher=Newsdesk.umd.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.umd.edu/univarchives/macmil/letr.html |title=Mac To Millennium: Letter R |publisher=Lib.umd.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pghistory.org/PG/PG300/rossborough.html |title=Prince George's County Tricentennial |publisher=Pghistory.org |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}
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I believe the Rossborough Inn was built by Richard Ross and George Calvert after Ross sold the Indian Queen Tavern in Bladensburg. http://bladenarch.blogspot.com/2010/05/brief-history-of-indian-queen-tavern.html

Calvert was a partner with Ross, building the D.C. to Baltimore turnpike. http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000618/html/am618--74.html

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