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The Present Past
The Immaculate Collection: Clairvaux & San Marino
by “My Father’s Son”
“As spring Courtesy of Beck Images Courtesy of Maryland State Archives and husband,
came on, the James Cretin,
desire to move resided at
obsessed me, Pleasant Level
and Walter under its MSM
suggested ownership
our moving with their
to the ‘Old daughter Mary
Dominion,” William Anna
wrote Louise Cretin.
Closser Hale Ann
for Harper’s Rosetta died
Magazine 1916 at age thirty-
Vol. 133. A seven, and
bitter New York James Cretin
City winter remarried
led Mrs. Hale Mary Ann
to agree such Lyvers (likely
an outing was a descendant
necessary; her The Normanesque chateau “Clairvaux” constructed at Pleasant Level by of his first
restlessness Dr. James A. Shorb. The San Marino Farmhouse, constructed south of Mt. St. Mary’s wife’s paternal
University, the longtime home to prominent citizen Daniel F. Roddy.
reason enough desire to visit his “Uncle Charlie’s” Grandmother,
to travel, while Mr. Hale used the necessary for his plantation needs. Jacoba Lyvers’ original lineage.)
trip as justification to purchase a home, bringing the Hales to a lavish A devout catholic, Elder named his “We turned off the highway to
new motorcar. As Louise Closser collection of homes in Frederick
Hale, a Broadway actress and County’s elder land. Pun intended, holdings beyond Pleasant Level, go to “Uncle Charlie’s,” following
“St. Mary’s Mount,” in homage an avenue of huge pear-trees out
writer, packed for the trip, her the Hale’s reached the bounds once to his Eastern shore roots and for Easter that must have been
husband, Walter Hale, a talented belonging to William Elder and wife,
artist and Broadway actor/writer Jacoba Clementina Lyvers. religious interests. The Elders gave centuries old,” Mrs. Hale described
part of St. Mary’s Mount to be used approaching the estate called “San
himself, took pet-dog “Toby” to Elder came to the tract “Ogle’s as a Catholic College & Seminary Marino.” In 1916, San Marino
test different automobile makes. Good Will” on the eastern face
The couple enthusiastically crossed of the Catoctin Mountain range’s in 1808; deemed Mt. St. Mary’s was owned by Daniel F. Roddy,
after the land it was erected upon. presuming him the “cordial host”
the Mason-Dixon Line by way of “Carrick’s Knob” from St. Mary’s Pleasant Level was located south who greeted the city folk. Roddy
the “Emmitsburg Road” days after County in the early 1700s. The base
departing their 27 N. Washington of the tract was renamed “Pleasant of Emmitsburg on the Northeast purchased San Marino from Jonas V.
corner of modern day Motter’s Summers and wife, Frances Eleanor
Square apartment—a seven-story Level,” where Elder constructed Station Road’s intersection with Joy, in March of 1900. Five years
limestone building, adjoining a row the family home, satisfied by the
of red-brick Georgian mansions. surprisingly flat (or pleasantly U.S. Route 15. William Elder’s prior, the Summers’ had bought the
son, Aloysius, inherited his father’s place at a public sale from Charles
This route was chosen by Walter’s level) land at the mountain’s base, Pleasant Level property and willed Augustus Manning and son, Edward
it to Mt. St. Mary’s College (MSM) Tiers Manning.
to preserve the family cemetery Charles A. Manning’s mother
sited with the Elder home, and was Sarah Ann Schenk Timberlake
ensure his family’s continued burial Manning, first married to Lewis
there. Aloysius and Josephine Green Timberlake. Virginia Timberlake
Elder’s daughter, Ann Rosetta Elder, … C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 3 9
The Present Past
The Immaculate Collection: Clairvaux & San Marino
by “My Father’s Son”
“As spring Courtesy of Beck Images Courtesy of Maryland State Archives and husband,
came on, the James Cretin,
desire to move resided at
obsessed me, Pleasant Level
and Walter under its MSM
suggested ownership
our moving with their
to the ‘Old daughter Mary
Dominion,” William Anna
wrote Louise Cretin.
Closser Hale Ann
for Harper’s Rosetta died
Magazine 1916 at age thirty-
Vol. 133. A seven, and
bitter New York James Cretin
City winter remarried
led Mrs. Hale Mary Ann
to agree such Lyvers (likely
an outing was a descendant
necessary; her The Normanesque chateau “Clairvaux” constructed at Pleasant Level by of his first
restlessness Dr. James A. Shorb. The San Marino Farmhouse, constructed south of Mt. St. Mary’s wife’s paternal
University, the longtime home to prominent citizen Daniel F. Roddy.
reason enough desire to visit his “Uncle Charlie’s” Grandmother,
to travel, while Mr. Hale used the necessary for his plantation needs. Jacoba Lyvers’ original lineage.)
trip as justification to purchase a home, bringing the Hales to a lavish A devout catholic, Elder named his “We turned off the highway to
new motorcar. As Louise Closser collection of homes in Frederick
Hale, a Broadway actress and County’s elder land. Pun intended, holdings beyond Pleasant Level, go to “Uncle Charlie’s,” following
“St. Mary’s Mount,” in homage an avenue of huge pear-trees out
writer, packed for the trip, her the Hale’s reached the bounds once to his Eastern shore roots and for Easter that must have been
husband, Walter Hale, a talented belonging to William Elder and wife,
artist and Broadway actor/writer Jacoba Clementina Lyvers. religious interests. The Elders gave centuries old,” Mrs. Hale described
part of St. Mary’s Mount to be used approaching the estate called “San
himself, took pet-dog “Toby” to Elder came to the tract “Ogle’s as a Catholic College & Seminary Marino.” In 1916, San Marino
test different automobile makes. Good Will” on the eastern face
The couple enthusiastically crossed of the Catoctin Mountain range’s in 1808; deemed Mt. St. Mary’s was owned by Daniel F. Roddy,
after the land it was erected upon. presuming him the “cordial host”
the Mason-Dixon Line by way of “Carrick’s Knob” from St. Mary’s Pleasant Level was located south who greeted the city folk. Roddy
the “Emmitsburg Road” days after County in the early 1700s. The base
departing their 27 N. Washington of the tract was renamed “Pleasant of Emmitsburg on the Northeast purchased San Marino from Jonas V.
corner of modern day Motter’s Summers and wife, Frances Eleanor
Square apartment—a seven-story Level,” where Elder constructed Station Road’s intersection with Joy, in March of 1900. Five years
limestone building, adjoining a row the family home, satisfied by the
of red-brick Georgian mansions. surprisingly flat (or pleasantly U.S. Route 15. William Elder’s prior, the Summers’ had bought the
son, Aloysius, inherited his father’s place at a public sale from Charles
This route was chosen by Walter’s level) land at the mountain’s base, Pleasant Level property and willed Augustus Manning and son, Edward
it to Mt. St. Mary’s College (MSM) Tiers Manning.
to preserve the family cemetery Charles A. Manning’s mother
sited with the Elder home, and was Sarah Ann Schenk Timberlake
ensure his family’s continued burial Manning, first married to Lewis
there. Aloysius and Josephine Green Timberlake. Virginia Timberlake
Elder’s daughter, Ann Rosetta Elder, … C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 3 9
