In the 1850s,
Benjamin Chew Howard, a four term Congressman and son of
John Eager Howard, and his wife Janet Gilmore, built and resided in the mansion now addressed at 924 N. Charles Street, which was a parcel of his father’s
Belvedere Estate. Later, Charles Morton Stewart, a Brazilian coffee importer and his wife, Josephine Lurman, purchased the building as their winter residence, raising 14 children between the mansion and their summer home in
Greenspring Valley,
Maryland. == Building status ==