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History > Where History Happened > Homes > Falling Green

HOMES: FALLING GREEN
Falling Green joins Clifton and Cherry Grove as one of Sandy Spring's finest Georgian homes. On the lawn in this 1895 scene are, from left, Elizabeth E. Farquhar, owner Charles H. Brooke, Alice Stabler, Mary B. Brooke, Edith Brooke Green, Maria Libby, and Mary Stabler. Built in 1764 by Basil Brooke, son of Quaker pioneer James Brooke, Falling Green is made of rough red bricks laid up in Flemish bond and embracing five bays. A wide central hall gives off to a large living room to the right and spacious parlor to the left, both with fireplaces. Crowning a gentle knoll a mile west of Olney, Falling Green "invariably attracts the eye of the motorist as he sweeps around a wide arc in front of the farm," observed historian Roger Brooke Farquhar.
	Horse-lover Charles H. Brooke sits astride Puss, known as "a very fast horse...sorrel with blazed face." The 1860 photo is one of the oldest shown in this volume. Early records describe him as short and stout, ruddy complexioned, fond of telling stories before a blazing fire, and possessed of "individuality of character and originality of thought." During the Civil War he was briefly held captive by Confederate forces.