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Riversdale was the last home of William Butler Yeats. It is located in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham off the Ballyboden Road.
Riversdale, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807. Also known as Baltimore House, Calvert Mansion or Riversdale Mansion, it is located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park, Maryland. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997.
Once the manor house and centerpiece of a slave plantation, Riversdale was built for Belgian émigré Henri Joseph Stier, Baron de Stier, who lived in the Brice House in Annapolis, Maryland immediately prior to building Riversdale. Stier planned the house in 1801 to resemble his Belgian residence, the Chateau du Mick. Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband, George Calvert, the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who was a natural son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore. Rosalie and George Calvert's son, Charles Benedict Calvert, established the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, College Park, on part of the Riversdale property.
While its design has been attributed to William Thornton, this is not supported by available evidence on Thornton's career.
Riversdale was the last home of William Butler Yeats.
Riversdale may also refer to:
- Riversdale (Riverdale Park, Maryland), National Historic Landmark whose property became the foundation for the University of Maryland
- Riversdale, Jamaica, a village in the parish of Saint Catherine
- Riversdale Mining, an Australian business with mines in Africa.
- Riversdale, Nova Scotia (disambiguation)
- Riversdale, Saskatoon, neighbourhood in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Riversdale, Western Cape, a town in South Africa