10007 Croom Rd
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, USA

Coffren House, 10007 Croom Rd, Croom, Prince George`s County, MD

The Coffren House, and adjacent Coffren Store, are significant as a surviving, rural general merchandise store and storekeepers dwelling complex. Once a familiar part of the rural landscape, the crossroads store complex is now rarely seen, with such architectural integrity. The house is a good example of a side-hall-and-double-parlor plan, a house type popular among the planter and merchant class in Prince George`s County during the early to mid 19th-century. Its interior architectural details are in the Greek Revival style. Having been constructed in 1861, it is a later example of both this house type and stylistic detailing.

Coffren House, Store, 10007 Croom Rd, Croom, Prince George`s County, MD

The Coffren Store is a rare example of a well-preserved, mid 19th-century general merchandise store. Small local stores of this type one-room utilitarian structures including a Post Office once commonly dotted the rural landscape of the county. Most have long since disappeared, and the few others remaining have been altered. The Coffren Store is the only intact example in the county. The store was built for John W. Coffren, a prosperous merchant and tobacco planter whose dwelling house sits just south of the store.

Coffren House, Barn-Shed, 10007 Croom Rd, Croom, Prince George`s County, MD

See HABS MD-988 for written historical & descriptive data.

Coffren House, Corn Crib, 10007 Croom Rd, Croom, Prince George`s County, MD

See HABS MD-988 for written historical & descriptive data.

Coffren House, Privy, 10007 Croom Rd, Croom, Prince George`s County, MD

See HABS MD-988 for written historical & descriptive data.