Formerly a tavern, this mellow brick Georgian was built about 1810 and is one of Unity's oldest houses. It also served as an early hotel and country store. Livestock raised in the western part of the county for Baltimore and Annapolis markets was driven through the town and grazed nearby while the drovers supped and slept. From 1843 to 1884 the tavern was run by busy Nimrod Davis, who was also Unity's blacksmith and wheelwright, in shops beside the house. Today the home is owned by Merritt O. and Nancy Hambleton Chance.

The Unity home Bleakwood, built in 1877, is prized architecturally for its Victorian features in vernacular farm-house form: Three bays with central passage and cross-gable roof with projecting cross-gable, mingled with Victorian details such as champfered columns, spindlework porch details, flat-sawn ladder porch railing, narrow two-over-two gib Victorian windows, and decorative pressed-shingle tin roof. Bleakwood faces the Damascus Road just west of "downtown" Unity.