Glenview Mansion (Rockville)

Glenview Mansion is a historic home and surrounding property located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Catherine and Richard Johns Bowie, the original owners of the property, purchased 500 acres of land that the mansion now stands on and had their slaves clear its forests to grow corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, and hay as well as raise cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs.

The enslaved Black people who worked at Glenview were freed between 1862 and 1864, due to the abolition of slavery.

[3] Glenview remained in the Bowie family until 1904, then changed hands several times before 1917, when it was purchased by Irene and William Smith.

In 1923 architects Lochie and Porter were hired to transform Glenview from a farm to a fashionable country estate designed for entertaining.