Sotterley (Hollywood, Maryland)
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Sotterley Plantation
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Sotterly Plantation, July 2009
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| Location | East of the junction of Maryland Route 245 and Vista Rd., Hollywood, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°22′47″N 76°32′20″W / 38.37972°N 76.53889°WCoordinates: 38°22′47″N 76°32′20″W / 38.37972°N 76.53889°W |
| Area | 360.8 acres (146.0 ha) |
| Built | 1703 |
| NRHP Reference # | 72001487 |
| Designated NHL | February 16, 2000 |
Sotterley Plantation is a historic landmark plantation house located at 44300 Sotterley Lane in Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland, USA. It is a long 1 1⁄2-story, nine-bay frame building, covered with wide, beaded clapboard siding and wood shingle roof, overlooking the Patuxent River. Also on the property are a sawn-log slave quarters of c. 1830, an 18th-century brick warehouse, and an early-19th-century brick meat house. Farm buildings include an early-19th-century corn crib and an array of barns and work buildings from the early 20th century. Opened to the public in 1961, it was once the home of George Plater (1735–1792), the sixth Governor of Maryland, and Herbert L. Satterlee (1863-1947), a New York business lawyer and son-in-law of J.P. Morgan.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Sotterley was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000, its national signifance due to the extremely rare surviving elements of the main house's oldest phase, a c. 1717 post in ground structure, and the other elements of its later historical architecture and landscape.
Sotterley Plantation is the only Tidewater plantation in Maryland open to the public that offers visitor activities and educational programs. Visitors can tour the early 18th-century mansion, an original slave cabin, a customs warehouse, smokehouse, necessary and corn crib, as well as a formal Colonial Revival garden. The property comprises 95 acres (380,000 m2) of rolling fields, gardens, and riverfront.
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