What is "mount clare"

Mount Clare may refer to:

• Mount Clare (Maryland), historic house (1763) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Mount Clare (Roehampton), historic house (1773) in Roehampton, south west London
• Mount Clare Shops, historic railroad complex founded by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
• Mount Clare Station, a former railroad station in Baltimore which is now part of the B&O Railroad Museum
• Mount Clare, Illinois
• Mount Clare, Nebraska
• Mount Clare, West Virginia

"Mount Clare" — also known as "Mount Clare Mansion", known today as the Mount Clare Museum House — is the oldest Colonial-era structure in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. The Georgian style of architecture plantation house exhibits a somewhat altered five-part plan. It was built on a Carroll family plantation beginning in 1763 by barrister Charles Carroll the Barrister, (1723-1783), a descendant of the last Gaelic Lords of Éile in Ireland and a distant relative of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, (1737-1832), longest living signer of the Declaration of Independence and the richest man in America in his later years, also the layer of the "first stone" of the new Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, just a short distance away in 1828.

"Mount Clare" has been maintained by the " The National Society of Colonial Dames in Maryland, the local chapter of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America" since 1917, after the City of Baltimore, purchased a large portion of the former estate in 1890 as its third large landscaped park. In 1970, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark.