The Glen Burnie Historic House is surrounded by six acres of beautiful formal gardens and furnished with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiques, paintings and decorative objects collected by art connoisseur Julian Wood Glass Jr. (1910-1992). The site traces its historic significance to Col. James Wood, who settled on this land in the early 1700s and then donated portions of his homestead to establish the city of Winchester in 1744. In 1997, the site was opened as a museum, with the house presented exactly as furnished by Julian Wood Glass Jr., the last James Wood descendent to live at Glen Burnie. A small exhibition with a fully-furnished scale model of the house and a video presentation introduce the site to visitors, who may then take a docent-led tour of the house. Garden tours are self-guided.* Glen Burnie is the home of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, designed by Michael Graves and opening April 3, 2005.

*New in 2005—Guided Garden Tours Every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.