Montpelier

9401 Montpelier drive
Laurel , MD 20708

Builder: Thomas Snowden (1722-1770)
Montpelier built about 1740

Family occupants:

• Thomas Snowden (1722-1770) & Mary Wright (1728-1757)
• Major Thomas Snowden (1751-1803) & Ann Dorsey Ridgely (1754-1824)
• Nicholas Snowden (1786-1831) & Elizabeth Warfield Thomas (1790-1866)
• Juliana Maria Snowden (1813-1883) & Dr. Theodore Jenkins (1809-1866)
• Elizabeth Jenkins (1840-1913) & Mary Eliza Jenkins (1846-1923)

Non-family occupants:

• The house was sold out of the family in the early 1890s
• 1890 - W. P. Davis and Martin Choller
• 1895 - Mrs. Josephine Taylor
• 1900 - Mr. Lewis Blakeman
• 1906 - Mr. Edmund H. Pendleton
• 1911 - Mr. Otto von Schrader
• 1913 - Emmanuel Havenith (Minister from Belgium)
• 1918 - Mrs. H. St. George Tucker
• 1919 - Miss Eleanor Fitzgibbon [St. George]
• 1928 - Honorable Brechenridge Long (Assistant Secretary of State)
• 1959 - Christine Long Willcox

Christine Long Willcox donated Montpelier to The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which headquarters are located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale, Maryland . Friends of Montpelier, a non-profit Docent Organization, was formed with Nancy Thiessen as the first President.