{{short description|Historic house in Maryland, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = MacAlpine | nrhp_type = | image = MacAlpine Ellicott City MD Jan 11.JPG | caption = MacAlpine, January 2011 | location = 3621 MacAlpine Road, Ellicott City, Maryland | coordinates = {{coord|39|16|14.7468|N|76|49|46.1892|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Maryland#USA | built = {{Start date|1868}} | architect OR builder = | architecture = Second Empire | added = December 23, 2004 | area = {{convert|0.7|acre}} | refnum = 04001382<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
thumb|240x240px|MacAlpine September 2018 '''MacAlpine''', '''Rebecca's Lot''' is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. It was built by wealthy Baltimore attorney, James Mackubin, for his second wife, Gabriella Peter, a great-great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. She grew up at nearby Linwood, the daughter of Maj. George Washington Parke Custis Peter, who was the second son of Martha Parke Custis Peter of Tudor Place, Georgetown. She attended the famed Patapsco Female Institute and was a leading society member in Maryland. She was a cousin of Robert E. Lee's wife and his children spent many summers here after his death. Gabriella was known to be gracious but demanding. She initially lived at nearby Grey Rock but refused to stay there long as her husband had shared that home with his first wife. Her daughters were unable to leave her side during her lifetime, especially after the accidental 1903 death of her youngest son, Parke Custis, rendering them middle-aged spinsters at the time of her death.
The Mackubins raised five children here:
# Ella Mackubin (1870–1956): unmarried; graduated from Patapsco Female Institute in 1886 # George Mackubin (1872–1964): married Maud Tayloe Perrin of Gloucester County, Virginia; He was the founder of McKubin & Company in 1899, now Legg Mason. Had issue: one son; two daughters (twins). # Parke Custis Mackubin (1873–1903): unmarried; killed in a logging accident on his farm on Kent Island, Eareckson Farm. Had issue: one son. # Emily Boyce Mackubin (1876–1946): unmarried; philanthropist. # Mildred Lee Mackubin (1878–1956): married Arthur Gordon (after Gabriella's death) but no children.
The property was sold after the death of Emily Mackubin in 1946 and subsequently subdivided into the present Dunloggin neighborhood. The family is buried at nearby St. John's Church where they were active members.<ref>{{cite book|title=Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator|page=22|author=James A Clark Jr.}}</ref>
It is a {{frac|2|1|2}}-story, three-bay by two-bay frame, nineteen room structure clad in novelty siding with corner boards, with a mansard roof covered with wood shingles. When built in 1868, the house had a low hip roof possibly changed to reflect the new mansard style as at her father's summer home, Linwood.<ref name="mht_ihp">{{cite web|url=https://apps.mht.maryland.gov/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-1395.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: MacAlpine|date=June 2003|access-date=2016-01-01 |author=Kenneth M. Short|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}</ref> The stone slave quarters were built about 1840 reside several houses south of the MacApline house. The Mackubin's owned at least 11 slaves prior to the end of the civil war. These enslaved resided in the slave quarters after the civil war under the last name "Ireland," almost certainly bequeathed to them due to Mackubin's Irish heritage. <ref name="mht_ihp"/><ref>{{cite journal|magazine=Sun Magazine|date=4 December 1966|title=A House That Aims In Graciousness of Living In The Earlier Days}}</ref> Mrs Mackubin's cousin was the daughter of General Robert E. Lee<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Th Baltimore Sun|title=A PEEK AT THE PAST: Refurbished Victorian mansion is Ellicott City show house|author=Kobren, Gerri|date=20 October 1985}}</ref>
In 1947, land developer Marcus A Wakefield Jr. purchased the MacApline site subdividing the property for the Dunloggin neighborhood leaving four lots around the MacApline building. In 1974, the property was denied zoning to be converted to an antique store. The house was restored throughout the 1970s and 1980s by resident owners with the surrounding property reduced to less than an acre.
MacAlpine was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.<ref name="nris"/>
==See also== *Gray Rock Plantation *Temora *Bon Air Manor (Ellicott City, Maryland) *Linwood Manor
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{MHT url|id=1466|title=MacAlpine, Howard County}}, including photo from 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust
{{National Register of Historic Places in Maryland}}
Category:African-American history of Howard County, Maryland Category:Houses completed in 1868 Category:Houses in Howard County, Maryland Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Category:Howard County, Maryland landmarks Category:Buildings and structures in Ellicott City, Maryland Category:National Register of Historic Places in Howard County, Maryland Category:Slave cabins and quarters in the United States