J. C. Lore Oyster House
J. C. Lore Oyster House, also known as J. C. Lore and Sons, Inc., Seafood Packing Plant, is located at 14430 Solomons Island Road South, in Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland. It is a large two story, rectangular frame industrial building constructed in 1934 as a seafood packing plant. It replaced a 1922 building that was destroyed by the 1933 Chesapeake Potomac hurricane. It is significant for its historical association with the commercial fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River region, and architecturally as a substantially unaltered example of an early-20th century seafood packing plant. It has been adapted by the Calvert Marine Museum to house exhibits and many of its original spaces, artifacts, and records have been incorporated into them.
J. C. Lore Oyster House | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
U.S. National Historic Landmark | |
J.C. Lore Oyster House - South View, December 2008 | |
| Location | 14430 Solomons Island Road, South, MD 2, Solomons, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°19′27″N 76°27′39″W |
| Area | 0.266 acres (1,080 m2) |
| Built | 1934 |
| Architect | J.B. Lusby |
| NRHP reference No. | 84003869 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 22, 1984 |
| Designated NHL | August 7, 2001 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2001.