Photo of Tucker House exterior
Tucker House was built circa 1794 and is one of the oldest houses in Centreville, standing on the second lot to be sold when the Town of Centreville was laid out in 1792 for the new county seat. It stands on the southwest half of Lot Number 4, sold by Elizabeth Nicholson to James Kennard in 1792.
Tucker House Sign
The original house is brick noggin construction with wood siding, three bays wide, and two rooms deep. There is one chimney on the north gable that served six fireplaces, an unusual feature. The house is an example of the double pile gambrel roof house of the Federal period, and it is one of the few examples which still exist on the Eastern Shore. The side hall and stairway were added in the first quarter of the 1800s, and the kitchen wing was added in the late 1800s. The house is furnished with period furniture and china.
Tucker House is listed on the Maryland State Historic Sites List, designated as an Historic House Site within the Historic District of the Town of Centreville. Centreville was carved out of the Chesterfield Plantation.
The Tucker family purchased the house in 1898. It was donated to the Queen Anne’s County Historical Society by Mrs. Clarence A. Tucker in 1968.
The post-and-plank smoke house in the rear yard is original to the property and was restored in 2009. The rear yard garden was restored and is maintained by the Queen Anne’s County Garden Club.
Tucker House houses the Society’s office and a research library containing a collection of genealogical records, will records, cemetery and historic property records, books, early documents, and maps. All research materials are available to the public during office hours and by appointment.
124 S. Commerce Street, Centreville, MD