Mount Clare Museum

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Mount Clare mansion in Baltimore’s Carroll Park, 2022.
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The Barrister, (center), likely his brother-in-law Nicholas Maccubbin, (right), and enslaved groom (left) from the landscape of Mount Clare by Charles Willson Peale, 1775. Courtesy of the Greenville County Museum of Art.

Mount Clare

The manor house of a former industrial plantation where both gracious living and tragic enslavement took place.

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Landscape of Mount Clare (cropped) by Charles Willson Peale, 1775. Courtesy of the Greenville County Museum of Art.

Industrial Plantation to Public Park

For nearly 300 years, this elegant mansion witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of our country, including battles against Britain, the Civil War, and the fight to end racial segregation.

Known as “Lord Baltimore’s map,” this 1671 map shows Maryland and Northern Virginia and includes the Calvert family crest, Created by John Ogilby. Courtesy of the Maryland Center for History and Culture.

Vast Natural Resources

Once hunting grounds for native peoples, this land provided the nation’s building blocks –iron, bricks, flour—that sparked the country’s industrialization and first railroad.

Portrait of Margaret Tilghman Carroll with the garden front of Mount Clare, by Charles Willson Peale, 1770. Courtesy of NSCDA-MD.

Portrait of Charles Carroll, Barrister, with portico columns from the carriage front of Mount Clare, 1770, by Charles Willson Peale. Courtesy of NSCDA-MD.

The Carroll Family

Charles Carroll, Barrister, and his wife, Margaret Tilghman Carroll, built Mount Clare and used their wealth and political power to help found this country. Much of their wealth relied on the unpaid labor of enslaved, indentured, and transported convicts.