Rosalie Stier Calvert was a plantation owner and correspondent in nineteenth century Maryland. A collection of her letters, titled Mistress of Riversdale, The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1991. The letters range in date from 1795 to 1821, and illuminate the life of Calvert's plantation household, including the events leading up to and during the War of 1812.
Rosalie Stier Calvert
Baron Henri Joseph Stier, 1743–1821
Riversdale, July 2007
Riversdale Manor in July 2007
Riversdale (Riverdale Park, Maryland)
Riversdale, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807. Also known as Baltimore House, Calvert Mansion or Riversdale Mansion, it is located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park, Maryland, and is open to the public as a museum.
Riversdale Manor in 1989
Riversdale in 2007
Riversdale, July 2007
Riversdale Manor in July 2007