his stately 23-room mansion in the Second Empire style is the last of the Victorian resort hotels located in scenic upper Montgomery County, Maryland. Built in 1887 by Somerset Williams, the former Boyds Hotel (also known as the Burdette Hotel) was the main country inn of the then-popular resort town of Boyds. High View is gifted with generous, embassy-sized rooms, the largest of which, the Studio, is 14’ by 40’.

High View took advantage of the Boyds stop on the Metropolitan Line of the B&O Railroad added in the 1880s and was visited by foreign guests, diplomats and even a president who escaped the heat and humidity of Washington summers to walk the cool hills of upper Montgomery County.

      estled on five park-like acres and well situated atop a hill fronting the 1,800-acre Black Hill Regional Park and bordering the 525-acre Little Seneca Lake reservoir, High View is surrounded by some of the most beautiful trees and countryside in Montgomery County.

Located only three miles off I-270, High View sits on the edge of the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve, near the burgeoning Germantown and Clarksburg areas. High View is served by a MARC Commuter Rail station one-half mile away in historic downtown Boyds, Maryland for service to Union Station in Washington D.C. and by the Metro Station in nearby Germantown.

Historic High View, once a grand resort hotel, is now a private residence currently undergoing a historically sensitive restoration. The property is listed in the Montgomery County Atlas of Historic Places (MC 13/30) and in the Maryland State Historic Sites Inventory.