Food for Thought

[mike86002000]

As for the Dr. Mudd house near Clinton, I would love to see photos and diagrams. Where did you see them? The only thing I can guess is that someone confused the old Griffin home with the Mudds' because the U.S. Representative Sydney Mudd married into that family. I remember the old house as a wreck when I was growing up. Crestview subdivision was built on the farm in the early-1960s.




I worked at T. B. Texaco, owned by Texaco, in the mid '60's.
The other Dr. Mudd house belonged to Dr. Sidney, or Sydney, Mudd. I had detailed information saved in an email I sent to my niece in 2017, but have somehow erased it. The picture was available for purchase from a man who sold civil war era photos. It was captioned "Dr. Mudd's house". I'll try to recover the information. I even had the street address, and a later picture of the house in ruins. It was demolished in the '50's.
Ed and his brother Al both worked at the Mudd House, and were my first cousins. I knew them well. They worked there after I left in the early 2000's, having worked as a volunteer for over 20 years.
Mike

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I found it!
Beth,
I finally got around to finding out what I could about the "Dr. Mudd House" picture. It was taken in the 1930's, and is Dr. Sidney Mudd's house in Clinton, built in the mid 1800's. There's a second photo taken a few years later. The house was in much worse shape. It's an end view, and gives a better idea of how deep the porch at the entrance was as well as the offset of the addition. It was abandoned in the 1930's, and finally demolished in the 1950's. The street address was Grafton Lane and Colorado Street, near Clinton; which I can't find. It may not be valid anymore.
It's very interesting that the general layout is so similar to Dr. Samuel Mudd's house. Same architect or builder, or just a popular design?
These are the pictures. They are labeled with the Dr's full name. The collection of Civil War photos where I first ran across the picture just says Dr. Mudd.
http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/c...d/85/rec/2 .
http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/c...d/48/rec/1 .
Mike

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More from my correspondence at the time,(2017):
Mike,
Thanks for sending the link! The photo is of the Dr. Sydney Emanuel Mudd house. The layout is remarkably similar to the Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd house, ( now the Dr. Samuel Mudd House and Museum); especially considering possible alterations in that house I know about.
From the Library of Congress link, I found the same photo, and a second one taken twenty years later, at:
http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/c...d/85/rec/2 .
http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/c...d/48/rec/1 .
There's a little more information there, too.
Mike
I sent that to the man who offered the photo, yet another Mike.