Brookeville, Maryland · National Register Historic District
Four estates. One street. A place where the President of the United States once governed for a day – and where you can live for a lifetime.
Brookeville, Maryland · National Register Historic District
THE STORY
On the evening of August 26, 1814, in the aftermath of the British burning of Washington, the young nation’s capital was in crisis. The Capitol, the President’s House, and many government buildings had been set ablaze. Seeking refuge, President James Madison rode north to a quiet Quaker village in Maryland where, for one remarkable day, Brookeville became the place from which he continued the work of the presidency.
That village was Brookeville.
The Bentley home where President Madison spent the night still stands. The village green where members of his administration gathered remains much as it was more than two centuries ago. The narrow, tree-lined streets continue to reflect the quiet character that made Brookeville a place of refuge during one of the nation’s most uncertain moments.
Today, Madison Manor is the only new residential community to be introduced on High Street within the Brookeville National Register Historic District. The collection includes four distinctive residences, each inspired by the people, places, and events that shaped Brookeville’s remarkable role in American history.
This is where history is honored and a new chapter begins.
THE COLLECTION
FLAGSHIP
The crown of the collection and the largest estate on the street. Three acres of private grounds. Water views. A wraparound porch. Cedar shake roofing, Wolf appliances, Lutron lighting, Savant home control, SPAN smart panel – all already specified, all already integrated.
THE ARCHITECTURE
Proportion
Every residence at Madison Manor begins with proportion. Designed by GTM Architects, the homes reflect balanced forms, thoughtful scale, and architectural compositions that feel both timeless and naturally at home within Brookeville's historic landscape.
Presence
Each residence has its own architectural identity while contributing to a unified streetscape. Distinctive rooflines, welcoming facades, generous porches, and carefully composed elevations create homes that are individually memorable while remaining harmonious as a collection.
Detail
Architecture is more than appearance. It is the way a home welcomes you, the way natural light moves through its spaces, and the way each room relates to the next. Every residence at Madison Manor has been thoughtfully designed to create homes of quiet elegance, lasting character, and everyday livability.
Every community begins with land. Madison Manor begins with a vision.
This is not simply raw land waiting to be developed. It is a thoughtfully envisioned community where architecture, homesites, and planning have been carefully considered from the very beginning.
Designed by GTM Architects and approved by Montgomery County, the four residences were conceived as a unified collection that respects Brookeville’s historic character while creating an exceptional place to call home.
“You are not buying ground. You are buying the years.”
BUILT FOR THE NEXT CENTURY
The homes at Madison Manor are designed to be as efficient as they are beautiful. Heat pump HVAC. Solar-ready electrical. A SPAN smart panel that manages every circuit in the house. A HERS energy rating targeting 50 or better – roughly half the energy use of a typical new construction home in this region.
These are not retrofits. They are choices made at the drawing board, before a single wall went up – built into the GTM Architects plans, written into the permits, ready for the day solar panels make sense for your family.
Some of what we are building is for now. Some of it is for the next family who will live in this house.
Half the energy of typical new construction
Conduit, panel capacity, and orientation already in place
Every circuit, in your hand
THE TOWN
Brookeville is twenty-something minutes from the Beltway and yet, a different world entirely.
The town was founded in 1794 by Quaker families who built it slowly, deliberately, on the land along Reddy Branch. By 1814 it was a small but prosperous industrial village with mills, a postmaster, an academy, and a tight community of Friends. Two hundred and thirty years later, the population is still under two hundred. The Brookeville Academy still stands. The Bentley house still stands. The streets follow the same lines they always have.
You do not get traffic. You get neighbors. You do not get sprawl. You get a historic district. You do not get a clubhouse and a pool. You get land, trees, water, and a green where history happened.
For families upgrading into something they will keep for a generation, and for buyers downsizing out of larger estates but unwilling to compromise on quality or beauty – Brookeville is the discovery. Madison Manor is the address.
Brookeville Academy, the Madison House, the village green, local farms and trails.
20 minutes to the Beltway, 45 minutes to downtown DC, MARC rail nearby, Reagan and Dulles in under an hour.
Annual events, the historical society, schools, and the rhythm of a town that knows its neighbors.
FROM THE GROUND UP
Madison Manor is not a render. It is an active build on an active street. Here is where we share what is happening on the ground as the four estates come to life – site work, framing, the slate on the roof, the cedar going up on the Madison Grand. Real progress, in real time.
WHO LIVES HERE
The right buyer for Madison Manor is not looking for a house. They are looking for an address – a place they will leave to their family the way other families inherit furniture.
They may be moving up – finally ready for the home that will hold every holiday and every milestone for the next twenty years. Or moving down – out of an estate that has grown too complex, into something that gives them everything that mattered and none of the parts that did not.
Either way, they want a place that says something quiet and true about who they are. A street that means something. A home built to last. Neighbors who know their name.
If that sounds like the next chapter of your life, the four estates of Madison Manor were drawn for you.
ONE STREET. FOUR HOMES.
There is no other buildable land with historic designation on High Street in Brookeville. Inside the town’s Historic Village Residential zone, an entitled residential lot with approved architectural plans, completed site work, and an established HOA does not exist anywhere else.
Madison Manor is not competing with other listings in this historic district. It is the only one. When the four estates are spoken for, the street is finished. There will not be a Phase Two.
BEGIN A CONVERSATION
We do not list these homes the way other homes are listed. The right family is not found through a search filter. They find the story, the street, the place – and the conversation begins from there.
Whether you are ready to walk the ground, request the estate brochure, or simply ask a question, Nicole Carrington and the Madison Manor team are available by appointment.
For the mornings on the porch with the light coming through the trees. For the dinners on the terrace that run later than they should. For the holidays that fill every room and the slow Sundays that need no itinerary at all...
Begin a Conversation
We do not list these homes the way other homes are listed. The right family is not found through a search filter. They find the story, the street, the place – and the conversation begins from there.
Whether you are ready to walk the ground, request the estate brochure, or simply ask a question, Nicole Carrington and the Madison Manor team are available by appointment.
