High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maryland Square, later known as Steuart Hall, was a mansion owned by the Steuart family from 1795 to 1861, located on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, at the present-day junction of Baltimore and Monroe streets. In the first year of the American Civil War, the property was confiscated by the United States Federal Government as its owner, George H. Steuart, a former United States Army officer, had resigned his commission to fight in the Confederate Army.