Gaithersburg HDC recommends Summit Hall for National Register listing

Gaithersburg Historic District Commission members voted Oct. 29, 2025, to recommend Summit Hall for listing on the National Register of Historic Places following a staff eligibility review and public discussion.

Preservation planner Kate Sangregorio summarized the nomination to the commission, saying, “Summit Hall is eligible for the National Register under Criterion A for significant events” and noting that surviving outbuildings include a log smokehouse (c. 1800), a barn (c. 1900) and a tenant house that was built as an enslaved persons’ quarters in 1852. Sangregorio also told the commission the nomination cites agricultural significance (the Wilmont ownership operated a commercial turf farm) and Civil War associations, including a written journal by a former owner and an instance when Confederate General Jubal Early and his troops camped at the site.

“The location in Bohrer/Bora Park is the same and keeps overall feel,” Sangregorio said, describing the property’s integrity and recommending the commission forward a…