page_title: Belair Mansion (Bowie, Maryland)
section_title: Changing hands
hierarchical_section_title: Belair Mansion (Bowie, Maryland) / History / Changing hands
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Gardens and Distant BELAIR MANSION Plantation. View from the front (North) ALONG ENTRANCE DRIVE (1936). Located in Collington; on the National Register of Historic Places. Image courtesy of the federal HABS—Historic American Buildings Survey of Maryland. View Along ENTRANCE DRIVE of Gardens and distant BELAIR MANSION From North (Front); Collington; HABS MD,17-COLTO.V,1-8
context_page_description: The Belair Mansion, located in the historic Collington area and in Bowie, Maryland, United States, built in c. 1745, is the Georgian style plantation house of Provincial Governor of Maryland, Samuel Ogle. Later home to another Maryland governor, the mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  Belair is recognized as the only great colonial estate where breeding of race horses was conducted over the course of three centuries. The estate significantly influenced the development of thoroughbred horse racing in the new world, having one of only two stables to raise two Triple Crown champions. The mansion and its nearby stables both serve as museums, operated by the City of Bowie.
context_section_description: In 1877, Munford and Tayloe sold the property for $17,000 to Edward T. Rutter. Belair subsequently changed hands numerous times while it continued to fall further into disrepair. The property was divided into smaller parcels, some of which were then recombined. By 1896, ownership of most of the land had passed to Benjamin N. Hardisty.
caption: Belair in 1936
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