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Historic Vanderbeek House c. 1868

Home of internationally renowned artist in the charming historic community of Relay. Splendid Victorian with wrap around porch, stain glass, transoms, sun room off kitchen, main level full bathroom, third floor in-law suite with kitchen, bath and loft turret, separate cottage with kitchen and bath, separate studio building with lots of light, minutes to MARC and convenient to Baltimore and DC.

Property/Site Features

Seperate Cottage In Law Suite Separate Studio Space Close to MARC train

Rooms

First Floor
Living Room 15'x14'- Painted wood floor, front door, ceiling fan, stairway, closet, stained glass windows on stairs, stained glass transom over door.
Parlor 15'x13'- Carpet, fireplace with wood mantel and wood stove inset, 2 wood windows, decorative stained glass transom.
Dining Room 15'x14'- Painted wood floor, crown molding, decorative transom, wainscot, ceiling fan, recessed lights.
Kitchen 13'x12'- Vinyl tile floor, center island with sink, gas 5 burner stove/oven, built in microwave, recessed lights, door to deck.
Laundry Pantry 8'x15'- Off kitchen, washer/dryer.
Sunroom 20'x12'- Carpet, ceiling fan, recessed lights, 3 large windows, glass door to door.
Study 12'x7'- Painted wood floor, glass transom, 2 windows.
Full Bath 7'x5'- Off dining room, shower, crown molding.

          

2nd Floor
Bedroom 1 14'x9'- Carpet, ceiling fan, 2 windows, no closets.
Bedroom 2 16'x12'- Carpet, ceiling fan, 3 windows, closet.
Bedroom 3 12x11- Carpet, ceiling fan, 2 windows, closet.
Bedroom 4 14'x9'- Carpet, ceiling fan, 3 windows, closet.
Bathroom 18'x5'- Ceramic tile floor, soaking tub, recessed lights, 2 windows.
Hall 16'x4.5'- Stairs to 3rd floor.

3rd Floor
In Law Suite- Living room, kitchen, den, loft bedroom.

Separate Cottage- 26'x15'

History

Relay, MD

Relay, MD is a historic town that played a major role in the construction of the B&O railroad. The original railroad that ran from Baltimore to Ellicott City, installed a branch in 1835 in Relay. Relay became the changing point for stage horses. It was also home to the historic Relay House, which would later become the Viaduct House, for rail travelers. In 1833, John McCartney began to erect the Thomas Viaduct, located on the East End of the Relay. The structure was complete on July 4, 1835 and served as an alternate route over the Patapsco river to the Patterson Viaduct. The Thomas Viaduct was nicknamed "Latrobe's Folley" after designer Benjamin Latrobe because at the time many doubted that it could even support its own weight. The structure proved them all wrong after surviving the great flood of 1868 that destroyed the Patterson Viaduct, making the Thomas Viaduct the main route over the Patapsco River. In addition to surviving the flood it has survived Hurricane Agnes in 1972, two floods that wiped out the Patapsco Valley and destroyed nearly everything in their path; and to this day it continues to carry 300-ton diesel locomotives passengers and heavy freight traffic. Thomas Viaduct has also carried B&O's famed Royal Blue Line passenger trains between New York and Washington, and, until the late 1960s, B&O passenger trains to points west of Washington, such as the Capital Limited to Chicago and the National Limited to St. Louis. In 1986, CSX acquired the B&O and all of its trackage which included the Thomas Viaduct. With the advent of Amtrak on May 1, 1971, all B&O passenger train service was discontinued, except for local Baltimore–Washington commuter trains, which continue to operate on a daily basis over Thomas Viaduct as MARC's "Camden Line" train service under contract with CSX Transportation.



Stan Vanderbeek

The Vanderbeek house was bought by it's namesake, Stan Vanderbeek, in the 20th century. Stan Vanderbeek was an experimental film maker specializing in animated films. His earliest films, made between 1955 and 1965 mostly consist of animated paintings and collages, combined in a form of organic development. VanDerBeek's ironic compositions were created very much in the spirit of the surreal and dadaist collages on Max Ernst, but with a wild, rough informality more akin to the expressionism of the Beat Generation. In the 1960s, VanDerBeek began working with the likes of Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, as well as representatives of modern dance, such as Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer. Building his Movie Drome theater at Stony Point, New York, at just about the same time, he designed shows using multiple projectors. These presentations contained a very great number of random image sequences and continuities, with the result that none of the performances were alike.
His desire for the utopian led him to work with Ken Knowlton in a co-operation at Bell Labs, where dozens of computer animated films and holographic experiments were created by the end of the 1960s. Between 1964 and 1967 Vanderbeek created Poem Field, a series of 8 computer-generated animations with Ken Knowlton.
During the same period, he taught at many universities, researching new methods of representation, from the steam projections at the Guggenheim Museum to the interactive television transmissions of his Violence Sonata broadcast on several channels in 1970. He ran the University of Maryland, Baltimore County visual arts program until his death.