Temora, is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland.

The house was built in 1857 after a design prepared by Norris G. Starkweather, a little-known but accomplished architect from Oxford, England, who also designed the First Presbyterian Church and Manse at West Madison Street and Park Avenue in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, with his later more famous assistant - Edmund G.

[3][4] The name of the estate Temora comes from the poems of Ossian[5] Laura Hanna and Mrs John Breckinridge lived in the property afterward.

County Councilman and representative William S. Hanna was also raised at Temora[6] A portion of the estate served as a farm with a hay field.

[7] In 1985, Borg attempted to convert the house into a 15-room inn and restaurant, but failed to approval for the increased activity on the lot in a residential neighborhood.