La Paix photograph collection

The house called La Paix was designed by J. Appleton Wilson for the Lawrence Turnbull family in 1885. Located on York Road near Sheppard Station in Towson (Baltimore County, Md.), La Paix was destroyed in 1964 and the site now contains St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Lawrence Turnbull (died 1919) was a lawyer and publisher, son of Henry C. and Anna Graeme Turnbull, whose siblings included the sculptor Grace Turnbull. He married the writer Francese Hubbard Litchfield Turnbull (died 1927) in 1871, and together they established the Turnbull Lectureship on Poetry at the Johns Hopkins University in memory of a son who died in childhood. Making their home at 1530 Park Avenue in Baltimore and at La Paix, their children were Edwin L., Bayard (died 1954), Eleanor L. and Grace H. (1880-1976). Grace Turnbull was well known as a sculptor.

La Paix was later home to F. Scott Fizgerald and his wife Zelda, who was being treated at nearby Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for mental illness. The house was torn down in 1962 to clear land for St. Joseph Hospital.