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Cockey/Jamison/Hendrickson House and Store
Inventory No.:
F-7-71
Other Name(s):
3409 Urbana Pike
Date Listed:
11/28/2018
Location:
3409 Urbana Pike (MD 355), Frederick, Frederick County
Category:
Building
Period/Date of Construction:
Ca. 1850-1927
Architect/Builder:
unknown
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Description:
Sebastian Graff Cockey’s House is a 2 ½-story late Federal frame house with a side-passage plan, located in the village of Urbana. Built c. 1850, the three-bay façade of the L-shaped house faces south towards Urbana Pike. The entrance is located in the rightmost bay, and holds a (replacement) 15-light glazed door surrounded by a five-light transom and two four-pane sidelights with recessed paneling. Two 6/1 windows with plain trim and louvered shutters are located to the left and center front bays. A half hip roofed porch supported by Doric columns extends across the front of the building with a modern carport roof has been extended to the east of the original building. Three 6/6 windows with plain trim and louvered shutters are located on the three bays on the second level. The standing-seam metal roof on the front and ell sections is finished with a plain boxed cornice with return. Two single whitewashed chimneys rise from the west end of the front section and the center rear of the ell section. The house is built on a low rubble stone foundation. The east façade of the main block is two bays wide, with a small window in the second-floor west bay and a 6/6 window in the east bay. Two small windows pierce the east attic gable. A two-story 20th-century addition extends from the north side of the main block and along the east side of the service wing. This addition continues to the north in a one-story configuration, adding one large room. The west façade of the building is four bays wide, and a 1930s enclosed sun porch extends along the west side at the first level. Four wide modern 1/1 windows are located in the four bays on the second level, and the original louvered shutters have been removed. (Some of these shutters have been retained in storage.) The west gable end of the main block has two original small windows and a modern side-by-side window with a roman arch fixed transom has been added between the two small windows. The interior is a side-passage plan, with a stair hall running the full depth of the main block, with double parlors off the hall. The dogleg stair rises against the exterior wall, and features walnut newels and handrail, square balusters, and molded step ends. The hall doors are trimmed with symmetrical molding with a peaked central element and pyramidal-centered corner blocks. The inner architraves of the parlors have slightly different symmetrical molding and bulls-eye corner blocks. Original trim in the front parlor includes a fireplace with an arched opening framed by an Italianate-influenced mantel; this mantel is currently painted, but appears to be of slate construction, likely originally marbleized. The rear parlor has a rectangular mantel with reeded pilasters, frieze, and brackets. Cockey’s Store is located southwest of the house. Also constructed c. 1850, it was a dry goods store, rebuilt in 1927 as a one-story rusticated concrete block building with an attic.
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Significance:
The Sebastian Cockey House and Store property is historically and architecturally significant. The property has been at the center of life in the village of Urbana since it was established by the scion of an old Maryland family around 1950. Cockey’s House is a representative example of the side-passage plan type, characteristic of vernacular domestic architecture of the period in the region, and is notable for the original features which have survived, including an impressive side hall and staircase open to the second and third floors, with a solid burled walnut newel post and banister. The original woodwork and mantel in the front parlor also remain. The original general store (“S. G. Cockey’s Cash Store”), next to Cockey’s residence, was rebuilt into the current structure in 1927. The store building, typical of rural commercial buildings of the period, is constructed of rusticated concrete block with expressed quoins, and retains its original storefront and interior finishes. It continued in use as a dry goods, hardware, and farm supply store, with Esso gas pumps out front, until 1958. The period of significance, c. 1850-1927, encompasses the construction dates of the house and the present store building, during which time the property achieved its historic form and appearance. The property derives local anecdotal interest from its reputed role as the site of General J. E. B. Stuart’s cavalry encampment in September, 1862, during which he and his officers held an impromptu fancy dress ball for the local ladies at the large building next door called Landon, a former boys’ military school sitting empty during the war. This event has been re-enacted in recent years as the “Sabers and Roses Ball.”
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