2 Secret Rooms Hidden Inside $1.2M Maryland Home: How Much House

MARYLAND — Nestled inside a $1.2 million custom built brick home in Street, Maryland, can be found a secret room perfect for a quiet reading spot, craft room, man cave or kids' play area. There's a second hidden room on the lower level created to secure important belongings or possibly be used as a safe room.

In the U.S., older homes may include clandestine paths if they were part of the Underground Railroad, helping enslaved people from the South find freedom north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Nowadays, people can pay to have a secret room installed in their home. Creative Home Engineering, based in Arizona, estimates that the average hidden room costs between $10,000 and $15,000.

When the owners designed the 7,000+ square foot Street home on more than 7 acres in Dove Hill Estates, they included six bedrooms and seven bathrooms. Just like in the movies, a bookshelf in one of those bedrooms doubles as a trap door that reveals another hidden room deep within.

On the lower level just off the storage area sits another hidden room designed to secure important items.

• Built in 2005
• Asking Price: $1,297,500

The brick home also features a two-story foyer, hardwood floors, grand staircase, two-story living room, gourmet kitchen, sunroom with a pellet stove, finished lower level with a game room, space for an in-law/au pair suite, a Juliet balcony on the second level and a sprawling deck out back. An oversized woodworking shop sits behind the home, equipped with a wood burning stove to keep warm year round and ample storage space. A wood storage shed also sits on the property.

A trail leads to an outdoor oasis with a wooden bridge spanning a spring-fed stream. There's a giant firepit set up at the second trailhead.

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