Beechfield

The southwestern boundary to the city, Frederick Avenue and the continuous path of Beechfield, Coleen Road, and Beechfield form the boundary of the wedge-shaped neighborhood of Beechfield. It contains one church. cemetery, school and rehabilitation institute for children, and housing built over a century. Its western acreage was once part of the eighteenth-century estate "Cloud Capped," known by 1800 as "Cloud Cap," the property of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. The Baltimore Iron Ore Works, whose investors included Carroll, Samuel Chase, members of the Dulaney family and several others, acquired the land during the Revolution. Allegedly, the British fleet of fifty vessels was spotted from the hilltop estate house in September 1814, one day before the Battle of North Point. Owned variously by James Cox, Talbott Taylor. and Orville Horowitz. it was acquired in 1890 by Blanchard Randall. a city grain commission merchant, also owner of Tower Hill, north of Frederick Avenue. Randall enlarged the estate house with terraces built from a demolished city bank.