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46-487: The village takes its name from a local restaurant that was opened in 1962 by Kingdon Gould, Jr. in an old county home that previously belonged to the Macgill family. Gould named his restaurant "The King's Contrivance", which combined his nickname with the word "contrivance". This name was inspired by the names of old Colonial-era land grants, many of which were referred to as the "contrivances" of their owners. In 1967, Gould sold

92-507: A ca1711 log frame building and is the second church building to be built on the 2-acre (0.81 ha) plot deeded to the parish in 1738 by Caleb Dorsey . It is the oldest church building still in use in Howard County. The brick church has a steep gabled roof and is laid in English garden wall brick bond. The structure, two bays wide and three bays deep, faces east with twin entrance doors in

138-462: A campground were also to be built in the park. Marriott projected that the park would draw 11 million visitors a year when completed. Many local residents supported the project, while many others opposed it. Supporters argued that it would provide jobs, entertainment opportunities and tax revenues, while opponents contended that it would overwhelm area roads and the local sewerage system, and that it would result in undesired commercial sprawl. Opponents of

184-528: A company owned by Kingdon Gould. Overlook, Inc. had acquired the land in several purchases in 1960 and 1961. The Macgill's Common and Dickinson areas were included in the original 1965 New Town zoning district, and in 1966 was subjected to the Columbia Association lien that generally delineates the boundaries of Columbia. Most of the land in the Huntington neighborhood was not acquired by HRD until 1971, and

230-482: A firm led by Kingdon Gould, and was about two miles from the nearest part of Kings Contrivance. Opponents of the proposal contended that Emerson was too distant from the rest of Kings Contrivance and that the Columbia Association would be required to make expensive near-term expenditures to provide amenities for the new neighborhood, including a swimming pool and pathways. Supporters of the proposal argued that annexation of Emerson would generate considerably more revenue for

276-455: A future revenue source for the Columbia Association that would lessen reliance on property assessments, while critics of the plan charged that its purpose was to allow HRD to charge more for property in the neighborhood. In March 1974 the Columbia Association, which was then still dominated by the HRD, approved a budget that called for building the golf course. In July 1974, however, HRD announced that it

322-786: A nearby Friendly's Restaurant were demolished in 2006 to make way for a new 56,000-square-foot (5,200 m) Harris Teeter supermarket. The new Harris Teeter, the second in Maryland, opened in May 2008. In November 2011, the Corner Stable replaced Michael's Pub as the flagship restaurant in the village center. Michael's Pub, which had been located in the center since 1986, was unable to stay in business after it spent $ 200,000 to construct an enclosed and separately ventilated smoking area in its bar that complied with existing law, only to have Howard County thereafter prohibit smoking anywhere in bars. Amherst House,

368-660: A number of Colonial land patents, including Ridgely's Neck (patented to Henry Ridgely in 1716), Broken Land (Thomas Worthington and Henry Ridgely – 1722), The Addition (Thomas Worthington – 1730) and Bare Hills (John Parr – 1734). At one time Kindler Road ran from Guilford Road, in what is now Dickinson, across a bridge over the Middle Patuxent River and then to Gorman Road in Hammond Village. The bridge, however, washed out during Tropical Storm Agnes in June 1972 and

414-508: A quarry permit. In 1969, another attempt was made by Contee Sand & Gravel to obtain a permit to operate a stone quarry on the property. This application also met with stiff opposition, including again from Gould. After lengthy hearings, county officials denied the request in April 1970. In August 1971, Contee sold its 349-acre tract to HRD for $ 2.4 million. Thereafter, HRD agreed to sell the Huntington property to The Marriott Corporation. The sale

460-597: Is an historic Episcopal church located about one mile from Guilford , now part of Columbia , in Howard County, Maryland . The small Georgian church was completed in 1809. It was constructed of handmade brick laid in English garden wall brick bond with unmarked joints. The oldest artifact used by the church is a bible published in 1701 provided by Queen Anne . The original church was established in 1727 as Queen Caroline Parish Church. Trinity Church (Elkridge, Maryland) , grew out of Christ Church. The structure replaced

506-415: Is bordered on the east by Broken Land Parkway and Huntington, and on the south by the Middle Patuxent River. On the west, it nears Old Columbia Road. Dickinson opened September 25, 1982. The neighborhood takes its name from the famous American poet, Emily Dickinson and has street names taken from her works. Dickinson had a population of 5,523 in 2010. Dickinson is located on land that was included in of

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552-530: Is located on Athol, a tract that was patented to Reverend James Macgill in 1732. Some parts closer to the Little Patuxent River are located on Brown's Hopyard, which was patented to Robert Brown in 1725. The village takes its name from the Reverend James Macgill, first pastor of Christ Church Guilford , and resident of Athol Manor . Prominent heir, land planner and Judge James MacGill lived in

598-466: Is the three-part window over the entrances. In the interior, the paneled gallery is a simple and direct interpretation of much larger churches built during the 18th century in major Episcopal cities like Philadelphia and London. The Reverend James MacGill was chosen in 1728 as Christ Church's first full-time rector . MacGill was a native of Perth, Scotland who served in the church for 50 years., living in nearby Athol Manor . The Rev Thomas John Claggett

644-604: The Watergate scandal ". For many years Gould was business partner of Dominic F. Antonelli, Jr. in the Washington DC parking and real estate development PMI Parking Management Inc. From 2013 until his death, he served as a trustee to the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, a nonpartisan organization "dedicated to educating citizens about foreign affairs". Gould's donations to Republican candidates and party organs attracted

690-482: The Columbia Association in the long-run. In November 2000 the Columbia Council, governing board of the Columbia Association, rejected the annexation proposal by a 7-to-3 vote, with Kings Contrivance's representative supporting it. Emerson was subsequently developed separately from Columbia. Macgill's Common was Kings Contrivance's first neighborhood. It is bounded on the south by Route 32, on the west by Route 29, on

736-512: The HRD announced plans for its newest village, Kings Contrivance. Development of Kings Contrivance, however, was subsequently delayed due to the effects of the 1973–75 recession . The first neighborhood of Kings Contrivance, Magill's Common, opened in 1977. Macgill's Common and the vast majority of the Dickinson neighborhood are located on land that was sold to HRD in September 1963 by Overlook, Inc.,

782-471: The Kings Contrivance restaurant. Kingdon Gould, Jr. Kingdon Gould Jr. (January 3, 1924 – January 16, 2018) was an American diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist. A Republican businessman, Gould was appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg , a position he would hold from 1969 through 1972. In 1973, Gould was appointed as Ambassador to

828-506: The Netherlands also by President Nixon, serving until 1976. He is part of the fourth generation of the Gould family of financiers, philanthropists and diplomats, which includes his father Kingdon Gould Sr. , grandfather George Jay Gould and great-grandfather Jay Gould , with associated generations of mothers, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews. Gould was the third child and

874-547: The Rouse Company and Connecticut General formed The Howard Research and Development Corporation (HRD) to develop the new town of Columbia. In October 1963, the plans for the new city were made public. In 1965 the Howard County government approved the HRD's requested master plan for Columbia which included a new zoning classification, New Town zoning, that applied to the HRD's development of Columbia and which allowed for considerable flexibility in that development. In November 1973,

920-690: The attention of the media, as for instance in 2006 when the New York Times reported that he had donated $ 25,000 to the Republican National Committee . In addition to his business and political interests, he was known in the area as a donor to a range of educational institutions. He also figured in the creation of the Capital Crescent Trail ; having purchased the DC portion of the newly abandoned Georgetown branch from CSX in 1989, he sold

966-527: The early 1800s the Episcopal Church in Maryland grew very slowly. The American Revolutionary War created tremendous conflicts within the Episcopal Church in the colonies. The clergy, who had been ordained in England, had taken an oath of allegiance to the king. This conflicted with their Oath of Fidelity required by the local assembly. Some clergy returned to England and others simply stopped preaching. After

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1012-547: The end of the Revolutionary War the Church of England , the Episcopal Church's parent church, was disestablished as the state religion. Having lost its official government support, the church was low on funds, and few new churches were built. In 1789, Anglican congregations in nine states adopted The Protestant Episcopal Church as their name and was formally separated from the Church of England . The American Episcopal church

1058-527: The highest percentage of open space of any Columbia neighborhood, with about 330 of its 613 acres preserved as open land and woodland. Huntington had 3,202 residents according to the 2010 Census. Huntington is located on Wincopin Neck, an 883-acre tract patented to Benjamin and Richard Warfield in 1702. The neighborhood is named for a historic home land grant of 259 acres to the son of Henry Ridgely Sr. in 1696. The street names of Huntington are primarily derived from

1104-467: The house that later became The King's Contrivance restaurant as a child, selling the 780-acre estate and home to Kingdon Gould for development through a company named Overlook Inc., after his personal Overlook Farm Estate. The street names of Macgill's Common come from the Folk Songs of North America compilation recorded by Alan Lomax . Huntington is bordered on the north by the Little Patuxent River, on

1150-547: The location of the Kings Contrivance Community Association, is also in the village center. This building, named after Emily Dickinson's hometown in Massachusetts , also serves as a rental hall for community events, parties, and meetings. Each of the three neighborhoods of Kings Contrivance has a community swimming pool operated by the Columbia Association. Various scenic trails weave within and around

1196-741: The neighborhoods of Kings Contrivance, providing access to Columbia's extensive bike/hiking trail system and County parks. These trails include The Patuxent Branch Trail, which runs along the Little Patuxent River, connecting Huntington and Magill's Common to Lake Elkhorn. Along the Middle Patuxent River, the Dickinson neighborhood includes extensive paths that are located within the Gorman Stream Valley Natural Resource Area. Recreational parks located in and near Kings Contrivance include Gorman Park, Huntington Neighborhood Park, and Savage Park, all of which are maintained by Howard County Recreation and Parks. The public schools serving

1242-459: The north and south bays. Each bay is rectangular, surmounted by a Federal-style transom and reached by two stone steps. The nave windows are rectangular, holding twelve-over-twelve lites and, decorated with splayed brick flat arched lintels. The interior contains a gallery which extends around three sides of the church. The Christ Church was funded by a parishioner poll tax on tobacco at Elkridge Landing , paying church and sheriff expenses. During

1288-455: The north by the Donleigh, Arrowhead and Allview neighborhoods, and on the east it straddles the Little Patuxent River. According to the original 1973 plans for Kings Contrivance, the neighborhood was to be called Macgill's Range, and was to include single family homes and a 35-acre 18-hole golf course that was to be built and operated by the Columbia Association. The HRD promoted the golf course as

1334-796: The only son of Kingdon Gould, Sr. , and his wife, Annunziata Lucci. He attended Millbrook School in 1938 and graduated in 1942. He attended Yale University for two months in the spring of 1942 before serving in the United States Army in World War II and was the recipient of two Purple Hearts and two Silver Stars . After returning from England in 1945, he married Mary Bruce Thorne in 1946; they had four sons, including Kingdon Gould III (born 1948), Frank, Thorne and Caleb, as well as five daughters, Lydia, Candida, Melissa, Annunziata and Thalia. Gould returned to Yale to complete his undergraduate degree and then to study law, graduating in 1951. He

1380-400: The proposal, a 60-acre area would be quarried, and when the quarry was exhausted in about 25 years, a reservoir would be created. Those who opposed the proposal included James Rouse, developer of Columbia, and Kingdon Gould, who lived on the property on the south side of the Middle Patuxent River across from the proposed quarry property. In early 1966, County officials denied the application for

1426-478: The proposed park included Kingdon Gould. HRD and the Rouse Company defended criticism of their sale of the property to Marriott in part on the grounds the theme park would result in more open space than residential development of the land. In September 1972, the County Council rejected Marriott's request for changes in zoning laws that were needed for the project to go forward. The sale of the land by HRD to Marriott

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1472-675: The restaurant to the Rouse-related developer of Columbia, the Howard Research and Development Corporation. In 1973, Kings Contrivance was selected as the name of the new village "because of its familiarity and identification with the area of the village." Over a period of time, developer James W. Rouse became interested in building a new model city, and in the early 1960s, his company, The Rouse Company, with funding provided by Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, acquired over 14,000 acres in Howard County, Maryland for that purpose. Together,

1518-589: The route to the National Park Service the following year. In his retirement, Gould was known in the Baltimore -area as a donor to a range of educational institutions. Gould died on January 16, 2018, at his home in North Laurel, Maryland of pneumonia at the age of 94, 13 days after his 94th birthday. Christ Church Guilford The Christ Church Guilford , historically known as the "Old Brick Church,"

1564-595: The south by the Middle Patuxent River, on the west by Broken Land Parkway (if extended), and on the east it straddles I-95. Another part, known as Huntington East, is about one mile east of the main part of Huntington, and is located on Savage-Guilford Road. Although HRD bought the Vollmerhausen farm property in 1963 (which roughly covered the area from the Vollmerhausen Drive/Keepsake Way line eastward to straddle I-95), only about 25 percent of Huntington

1610-615: The village are: In 1992 the South Columbia Baptist Church was built on Guilford Road adjacent to Hammond High School after a historic 1846 granite home " Moundland " was demolished. Thirty truckloads of stone from Moundland were used by Bruno Reich to renovate his home in Wilde Lake. That renovation project was featured in the show "Dream House" on the HGTV television network. Scenes from the movie Roulette (2013) were filmed at

1656-582: The works of Carl Sandburg , although some come from the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Huntington South, an outparcel surrounded by Huntington, was developed in 1986 by the Security Development Company, which requested input from the Rouse Company in naming the streets in its development. The list of names provided, including Lumberjack Row, Red Rain Way and Windbeat Way, were also taken from Sandburg poems. Dickinson lies south of Route 32, and

1702-618: Was added to the New Town zoning district in December 1976. The neighborhood of Macgill's Common opened in 1977, Huntington in 1979, and Dickinson in 1982. In 1999 the HRD proposed that an additional 517-acre tract be annexed to Columbia as Kings Contrivance's fourth neighborhood. The tract, initially known as the Key property, but later called Emerson, was located on Gorman Road and bordered Route 216 and straddled I-95. It had been acquired by HRD in 1971 from

1748-443: Was contingent on Marriott obtaining approval to build a theme park on the land. In January 1972, Marriott announced its plans for the massive theme park. It was to be called "Marriott's Great America" and was to include four separate entertainment areas: a park with thrill rides; a marine life park; a drive through animal preserve; and a New Orleans-styled indoor plaza with specialty shops, theatres and restaurants. A 600-room hotel and

1794-575: Was delaying development of Kings Contrivance and Macgill's Range indefinitely due to slow real estate sales caused by the 1973–75 recession. Development of Kings Contrivance did not resume until the Spring of 1976, with the first work beginning on what was now called Macgill's Common in October 1976. Macgill's Common officially opened on June 25, 1977, and the golf course was never built there. In 2010, Macgill's Common had 2,603 residents. Most of Macgill's Common

1840-477: Was included in the original 1965 Columbia New Town zoning district. By the mid-1960s, most of what would become Huntington was owned by Contee Sand & Gravel Company and other related companies that were led by Homer Gudelsky . In 1965, one of those companies, the Guilford Granite and Stone Company, applied for a permit to operate a granite quarry on the 315 acres that it and its related companies owned. Under

1886-656: Was incorporated as “the first Anglican Province outside the British Isles.” Churches that were built during the period of time after the founding of the American church were usually of an economical design. In 1809, the Christ Church was one of the first Episcopal churches constructed in the state after the Revolution. Judge Henry Ridgely oversaw the construction of the brick structure. The only architecturally sophisticated feature

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1932-432: Was never completed. In late 1973, HRD announced plans to annex its Huntington property to Columbia and the New Town district as part of Kings Contrivance. The land to be annexed amounted to about 500 additional acres that had not been made part of Columbia in 1965, and about 75% of what was to become Huntington. The HRD's plan to add Huntington to the New Town district was part of a larger proposal. Although adding Huntington

1978-428: Was not controversial, other parts of the HRD's proposal were, especially its request to increase the number of townhouses and apartments that it was permitted to build in the New Town zone. Lengthy hearings and appeals ensued, and it was not until December 1976 that HRD's request to add Huntington to the New Town district was finally granted. Huntington opened for home sales on June 1, 1979. When developed, Huntington had

2024-522: Was not replaced. Parts of the bridge abutment are still present. The Kings Contrivance Village Center is located in the Dickinson neighborhood at the intersection of Guilford Road and Eden Brook Drive. The Village Center opened on June 14, 1986. It was originally anchored by Valu Food, a local supermarket chain. After Valu Food went out of business, a Safeway opened in the Village Center in late 1999. The 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m) Safeway store and

2070-728: Was the grandfather of United States Olympic cyclist Georgia Gould . Gould served as United States ambassador to Luxembourg from May 1969 to October 1972 during the Richard Nixon administration. He later served as ambassador to the Netherlands from October 1973 to September 1976 under a second appointment by President Nixon, and continued serving through most of the Ford Administration. When President Nixon delivered his resignation speech in August 1974, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

2116-593: Was visiting with Gould in The Hague during his tenure as Ambassador to the Netherlands. When discovering that Burger would swear in Gerald Ford to the presidency, Burger told Gould: "Do you understand the irony, Kingdon? That man [Nixon] appointed me to the highest office, and I wrote the opinion [that forced Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes and papers as evidence in the trial of presidential aides accused of covering up

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