{"id":11566319,"date":"2025-07-24T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/?p=11566319"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:26:23","slug":"hot-property-the-jenkins-house-1840s-mount-vernon-mansion-for-1-95m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2025\/07\/24\/hot-property-the-jenkins-house-1840s-mount-vernon-mansion-for-1-95m\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Property: The Jenkins House, 1840s Mount Vernon mansion lists for $1.95M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Address:<\/strong> 106 E. Chase St., Baltimore<\/p>\n

List price:<\/strong> $1,950,000<\/p>\n

Year built:<\/strong> 1849<\/p>\n

Real estate agent: <\/strong>Nick Piscatelli, Maryland Commercial Ventures, LLC<\/p>\n

Last sold price\/date:\u00a0<\/strong>$500,000 on April 26, 2005 <\/p>\n

Property size: <\/strong>5,368-square-foot lot<\/p>\n

Unique features:<\/strong> In 1849, Baltimore was a booming port city of nearly 170,000 people, including the residents of a stately new three-story brick home at 106 E. Chase St., in Mount Vernon. Nearly two centuries later, having dodged a wrecking ball in the 1960s, the mansion bears a dignified elegance akin to that of its past. The hand-painted plaster ceilings, decorative Roman murals and stained and beveled glass windows hark back to a time of hoop skirts, top hats and grandeur for the well-to-do.<\/p>\n

Each of the 15 rooms has a cachet of its own; no two are remotely alike. There are black chestnut sliding doors and marble bathroom floors; cherry kitchen cabinets and finely carved mantels atop the nine fireplaces. The dining room is paneled in Honduran mahogany and gold leaf. The back courtyard has a stylish cast iron fountain.<\/p>\n

Among others, the home has belonged to George Carrell Jenkins, a wealthy financier, philanthropist and Civil War veteran who lived there from 1880 until he died in 1930. Jenkins and his wife, who was kin to Francis Scott Key, founded Bon Secours Hospital and funded the construction of two buildings (one of them Jenkins Hall) on the campus of Loyola University Maryland. Jenkins’ country estate, in Baltimore County, became the site of Villa Julie College (now Stevenson University).<\/p>\n

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