Araby (Mason's Springs, Maryland)

	Araby
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Araby in 2005
Location	SE of Mason on MD 425, Mason's Springs, Maryland
Coordinates	38°34′43″N 77°6′54″W / 38.57861°N 77.11500°W
Area	74 acres (30 ha)
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	74000947
Added to NRHP	July 25, 1974

Araby is a historic house located near Mason Springs, Charles County, Maryland. An example of Federal architecture, it was built in the mid-1700s and underwent extensive renovations a hundred years later. Much of the house remains unaltered from that time.^[2]

Merchant William Eilbeck built the plantation house, where he lived with his wife Sarah. He was one of the wealthiest men in Charles County, and held the rank of colonel in the local militia, and by 1745 was one of the gentleman justices of the local court.^[3] Eilbeck also had another plantation nearby, but only one child, a daughter Anne.^[4] In 1750, planter George Mason married Anne. The young couple lived with the Eilbecks while constructing Gunston Hall on his Virginia estates, and continued to visit Araby from time to time. Another of Anne's former suitors, George Washington, who owned a nearby property, was a frequent visitor.^[2] Sarah Eilbeck survived her husband, so Araby did not pass to their third grandson William Mason (1757-1820) until her death in 1780, when he was 23 and an officer in the Fairfax militia.^[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Rivoire, J. Richard (March 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Araby" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
^ Pamela C. Copeland and Richard Macmaster, The Five George Masons: Patriots and Planters of Virginia and Maryland (Board of Regents of Gunston Hall by University Press of Virginia) 1975 p. 91
^ Copelenad and Macmaster, p. 71
^ Copeland pp. 211, 234-235

External links

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Araby, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[mht_ihp-2] Rivoire, J. Richard (March 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Araby" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved April 20, 2017.

[3] Pamela C. Copeland and Richard Macmaster, The Five George Masons: Patriots and Planters of Virginia and Maryland (Board of Regents of Gunston Hall by University Press of Virginia) 1975 p. 91

[4] Copelenad and Macmaster, p. 71

[5] Copeland pp. 211, 234-235

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v t e The Mason family
First generation	George Mason I
Second generation	George Mason II
Third generation	George Mason III
Fourth generation	George Mason IV Thomson Mason (1733–1785)
Fifth generation	George Mason V William Mason Thomson Mason (1759–1820) Stevens Thomson Mason (1760–1803) John Thomson Mason (1765–1824) John Mason Thomas Mason William Temple Thomson Mason
Sixth generation	Thomson Francis Mason John Thomson Mason (1787–1850) Armistead Thomson Mason Richard Chichester Mason Richard Barnes Mason James M. Mason John Thomson Mason (1815–1873)
Seventh generation	Stevens Thomson Mason (1811–1843) Beverley Randolph Mason Arthur Pendleton Mason William Pinckney Mason
Eighth generation	Kate Mason Rowland Richard Nelson Mason Lucy Randolph Mason
Mason family residences Accokeek Analostan Island Araby Chestnut Hill Chopawamsic Clarens Clermont Colross Gunston Hall Hollin Hall Huntley Lexington Locust Hill Mattawoman Montpelier Okeley Manor Raspberry Plain Selma Stafford Hall Temple Hall Woodbridge

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