Hampton

c 1897

Built around 1850 but destroyed when part of the Hampton estate was developed a hundred years later, the Carriage House is a testament to third master John Ridgely’s great interest in horses. He favored expensive carriage horses and was renowned for driving carriages at “full speed,” whereby he “was accustomed to do the distance from the City to Hampton [ten miles] in an hour or less.”

Paper. H 8.6, W 8.7 cm
Hampton National Historic Site, HAMP 44209