However, it soon became the subject of political infighting, which led to Marlborough's exile, the fall from power of his Duchess, and irreparable damage to the reputation of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh. Its construction was originally intended to be a gift to John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough from a grateful nation in return for military triumph against the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim. It is the only non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title "palace". It is a monumental country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Constructed for John Churchill, between 17. Taken on a compact film camera (no digital back then and no screen to see how it came out).Ī statue in the grounds of Blenheim Palace from the back.Īll I remember about the place is that it was the birthplace of Winston Churchill and ancestral home of his family. I was aged between 9 and 11 at the time possibly. Think it might have been in the summer of 1993 (I simply can't remember when it was). Gambrill, as owner of both Araby Mill and the Frederick City Mill, was an important figure in Frederick County's industrial history.Scans of my really old photos of Blenheim Palace from the early 1990s. Boscobel is also significant for its association with James Gambrill, for whom the house was erected. It is significant in that it represents a style of architecture that was rarely used in its "high style" form in rural Maryland. The Gambrill House, or Boscobel, is a richly ornamented but conservative interpretation of the Second Empire style.
There are imported marble mantels with richly carved fruit ornament in the south downstairs parlor. On the interior of the house, the entrance hall is richly ornamented with a carved newel post and a continuous Victorian balustrade from the first to the third floor. Exterior woodwork is white except for the shutters, which are black. The common bond brick walls are painted buff. Dormers are round-arched with hood moldings and fleur-de-lys finial. Mansard roofs have a horizontal band of fishscale slates. Cornices under the mansard roofs have heavy paired brackets and a pattern of V-shaped dentils. They have both interior and exterior shutters.
#Galleried ell windows
First and second story windows on the major facades are square headed with ornamented segmental panels and molded hoods above. A one-story projecting bay window with narrow bracketed cornice is in the far right bay and matches a similar window in the left bay of the southwest facade. Centered in the 7-bay northeast facade is a slightly projecting pseudo tower with single-bay, one-story porch at the secondary entrance. The third floor tower opening is round-arched with a molded hood and an elaborate finial. The tower is ornamented at the second story level by a tall square-headed window under a heavy bracketed hood which is in turn sheltered by a projecting balcony supported by scrolled brackets at the third floor. Front windows at the first floor come almost to the floor level. Paired entrance doors are in a round-arched opening. A one-story porch across the front has a broad projecting central bay-ornamental square columns with scroll brackets, a single-bracketed cornice, and a balustraded flat roof with urn-and-ball finials topping the corner posts. Its central entrance bay projects as the lower part of a 4 1/2-story mansard-roofed rectangular tower. The principal 5-bay facade faces northwest.
The facade, two sides and central tower, are richly ornamented. Yet its rear ell with two-storied galleried rear porch within the ell is a typical feature of a western Maryland house type and is without ornament. Its high style Second Empire Victorian decoration makes it significant for its rural location. Description: The Gambrill House, or Boscobel, is a three-story brick mansion with mansard roof and central tower.
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