The Gloyd house was a large Victorian home built onto the original Benjamin Gaither house. Note Gaither's old fieldstone chimney on the left side of the Gloyd home. During the Civil War, as Union and Confederate forces passed through Gaithersburg, the Gloyd home was used as a hospital for the wounded. By the late 1950s increasing commercial development made the property less desirable as a residence, and the home was sold to the telephone company. The house was demolished in 1958.
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Fred | 4/7/11 | There used to be a big old tree near the front of the C&P building pictured above on the right, that bore a plaque describing how i think it was George Washington slept underneath the tree traveling to Washington. Not sure if the tree is there anymore. Will go look & update. |
| Andrew Odom | 5/25/11 | On it's own, it's "just another old home" but in some total, it seems Gaithersburg lost a lot of its history. |
| Jeff | 3/4/13 | Glad they tore down a historic home to replace it with something better. Progress at its best. |
| Kyle | 3/26/14 | I look at the structure on the right. Pure brutalism "modernist" garbage. An eyesore and travesty of construction, in a city that has been stripped of its history and replaced with strip malls and commercial estates. |