Editor’s Note: In light of the United States government’s actions to prohibit Russians access to their retreat in Queen Anne’s County yesterday, The Spy would like to share a previous story we did on the property in August of 2013.
For more that twenty years, through international crisis and diplomatic tensions, Washington’s Russian Embassy has used their country retreat, known locally as Pioneer Point, a few miles outside of Centreville to quietly host the Sailing Club of The Chesapeake’s annual Labor Day Cruise. And the tradition was started by none other than long serving Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, apparently a friend of sailors and Pizza Hut.
It’s also one of the few times that the estate, on land once owned by the Tilghman Family, is open to Americans. The Spy tagged along for the last holiday bash this past weekend and was welcomed to take some photographs of this remarkable property.
Christina Mills says
They need to do more than host an annual event to earn respect.
Ruth Sokel says
I happened to have lived on the estate when owned by RJ Funkhouser in 1953-54. I have not heard of the Tilgman family before as Rascob built and owned the estate and mansions prior to Funkhouser buying. I do know that the Rascob’s had large plaques of all of their children implanted on the outside of the mansion which at that time was referred to as “Mostly Hall” The other mansion was called “Heartfelt”. The plaques were removed when Funkhouser owned. Why was Funkhouser never named in any article??