Visit teackle mansion

OPEN: Teackle Mansion reopens for the 2024 Season on Sunday, April 4th, with a FREE Community Day from 1:00-3:00 pm. After that, it will be open Saturdays & Sundays from 1:00-3:00 pm, through early December. Docent-lead tours are available April-November. Please call 410.651.2238.

​ADMISSION is FREE!
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For group tours, please call 410.651.2238

ADDRESS:
11736 Mansion Street
Princess Anne, MD 21853

TEACKLE MANSION
Teackle Mansion is the 200-year old former residence of Littleton Dennis Teackle and Elizabeth Upshur Teackle. The Neo-Classical, 10,000 square-foot American villa style house exhibits a grandiose plan that includes formal spaces with decorative plaster finishes, an indoor bath, steam operated kitchen equipment (then unheard of modern conveniences in their day), and a wide range of elaborate furnishings.

The house exceeded, in many ways, most private residences of its day; only the wealthiest Eastern Shore gentry of the early nineteenth century could afford to build on such a scale. The Teackles lovingly called the property "Teackletonia."

The construction of this finely-appointed mansion began in the spring of 1802 and continued over a 17-year period. The five part home was finally finished in 1819. The Neo-Classical-inspired center section of the dwelling sits on an elevated foundation and showcases an intricately detailed front with a strictly symmetrical, temple-form facade. Decorative molded plaster tablets and carefully executed, hand-carved woodwork enhance the Flemish bond exterior. The symmetry of the exterior continues in the interior, most noticeably in the entrance hall and formal drawing room. In the drawing room, false windows, fitted with mirrored glass panes, balance working windows. Blind doors and niches match working doors and open niches.
​A large master chamber suite includes individual dressing rooms on either side of a marble bath intended for full body bathing, a rare luxury relatively unknown in earth 19th Century America.

HISTORICAL IMAGES OF TEACKLE MANSION

PHOTOGRAPHS
©Carrie Samis