Along the back roads of western Maryland perched atop a hillside sits the Mercer mansion. Built sometime between 1790-1800 for a wealthy textile merchant and businessman to raise his large growing family. The original oldest portion of the house features beautiful Flemish bond brickwork along the front facade leading into a wide foyer with a grand staircase. Still intact in the home is the massive original cooking fireplace from the early 1800’s. The house was expanded somewhat and modernized in the early 1900’s but much of the original bones of the house remain unchanged. From what I could find out the last residents moved out in the 1980’s and the house has sat vacant slowly crumbling away succumbing to the elements and time, long severed from antecedents and posterity alike. Just some brevity of a being, a trunk without root or branch. Thanks for watching