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Pleasant Prospect

Pleasant Prospect is a 2½-story, brick plantation house with side passage and kitchen wing. The walls are laid in Flemish bond, and the interior exhibits outstanding Federal style trim. A pyramidal roof, log meat house stands on the immediate grounds. Pleasant Prospect was built in the 1790s for Dr. Isaac Duckett. After the Civil War it became the home of Jonathan T. Walker, who undertook several Victorian renovations. It has recently been restored and is an important example of a Federal style plantation house.
Pleasant Prospect was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.〔
== History ==

Pleasant Prospect is an excellent example of a Federal plantation house and contains elaborate Adamesque original interior and exterior molding and trim. The house is also significant for its association with prominent families of Prince George's County for over 200 years. Originally constructed circa 1798 for Dr. Isaac Duckett, Pleasant Prospect was both a home and a viable tobacco plantation at the time that Dr. Duckett practiced medicine in the rural community. Upon Dr. Duckett’s death in 1823, Pleasant Prospect was transferred to his son-in-law, Captain John Contee. Contee was notable for his service during the War of 1812, where as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, he commanded the Marines aboard the USS Constitution during her victorious engagements with the HMS Java and the HMS Guerriere. Contee resigned from the military in 1813 and returned to private life. He earned a Congressional Silver Medal for each of the two battles in which he served, and was awarded the honorific title of Colonel. In 1824, Contee married Anna Louisa Snowden, another member of that prominent Maryland lineage. In 1830, the legislature of Maryland passed a unanimous resolution expressing its “high sense of the gallantry of John Contee” and granting him an honorary sword for his service. Records show that in 1839, upon John Contee’s death, the property was deeded to his son, John Contee. Contee graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, became a Navy lieutenant, and, like his father, was commended by Maryland for his gallantry in battle during the Mexican-American War. In 1861, Contee was elected Captain of the local cavalry company called “The Planters’ Guard” during the Civil War. In 1868, Jonathan T. Walker, a leading builder and lumber merchant in Washington, DC, purchased Pleasant Prospect and completed numerous Victorian renovations to the exterior of the home. The home remained in the Walker family for a century, where generations of the family were farmers and notable participants in Prince George’s County’s business community until 1978. In August of 1982, Pleasant Prospect was sold to Ambassador Raymond Garthoff and his wife Vera. They restored the property and returned it to its original Federal appearance by removing the Victorian era exterior detailing. Ambassador Garthoff has served a number of diplomatic posts for the United States, including as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1977-1979.

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