There is a website called Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties. You can type in MDIHP on your web browser.When you get to the website, click on "search by county." Then click on the list of counties until you come to PG County. Go to the listings for P, down to Pyles, and it is there. There are photos of the lumber yard and the old house. Easier way: Type "Pyles Lumber Warehouse and Residence site" into your browser and it comes right up.
Yes, it is sad about the old landmarks being razed. That old intersection was once called Malfunction Junction when the area got too big for its britches, and then it all changed. I don't remember the historical marker, though.

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: It could possibly be that. And it makes sense
: Mr. Pyles would build his home near his
: business.
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: Sad about the lumberyard fire. The last time
: I drove past was about a year and a half
: ago. I read the building was recently razed.
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: I think you might mean the house that Mr.
: Pyles built in the early 1900's.
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: As a child, I remember a large house at the
: intersection of Allentown Road and Old
: Branch Ave in Camp Springs. It was across
: the street (Allentown Rd) from Pyles Lumber.
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: It's currently a vacant lot enclosed by a
: low chain link. The garage/carriage house
: (?)is less than 20 feet from the merging
: lane of Rt 5 south and can be seen from the
: road.
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: I remember older siblings reading the
: sign/marker whenever we drove past it (a
: Rodman's Drug Store was in the vicinity) and
: the sign indicated it was the first house to
: have electricity or something like that.
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