A Baltimore County businessman who initially agreed to purchase the historic Perry Corridor mansion for $5,000 will now not purchase the property.
In June, the Baltimore County Council approved a contract to sell the Perry Hall Mansion to a restricted legal responsibility firm owned by Kingsville panorama enterprise proprietor Robert Lehnhoff.
The $5,000 sale was a fraction of the mansion’s assessed property worth, however the county was trying to promote as a result of it couldn’t afford to maintain up the property. County property administration chief Debra Shindle stated the mansion, which sits on a 4-acre property, required “in depth upkeep and restore” earlier than it may develop into liveable.
Lehnhoff declined to remark when contacted Tuesday.
If the sale had gone via, it may have included a $250,000 county grant to reimburse him for capital expenditures, with state and county approval. Lehnhoff initially stated he had hoped to show it right into a bed-and-breakfast and part-time occasion area.
In an electronic mail despatched Monday to Shindle, Lehnhoff wrote that his firm had discovered “this enterprise to not be possible presently,” in response to a duplicate obtained by The Baltimore Solar. “The challenges with this property and its use throughout the residential group surrounding it look like too vital. I actually respect everybody’s assist with getting us so far and I’m sorry we couldn’t discover a method to make it work.”
The mansion was in-built 1773 as a part of a 1,000-acre property that first belonged to Corbin Lee, who died earlier than its completion. Lee’s widow then offered it to Harry Dorsey Gough, a service provider who transformed to the then-fledgling Methodist non secular motion and constructed a chapel on the grounds. The mansion lends its title to the Perry Corridor group.
Councilman David Marks, an Higher Falls Republican who represents the realm, stated he was disenchanted on the growth.
“Because the writer of a historical past on Perry Corridor — and the group chief who assist nominated the mansion for landmark standing — I would like nothing greater than to search out an proprietor who will lovingly restore this property,” he wrote in a press release. “I’m disenchanted by this growth, however will proceed to seek for the suitable individual or entity to accumulate the mansion.”
