Linwood Childrens Center, Educational center in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Linwood is a seventeen-room brick house built by slave labor in the early 1800s in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland. Since 1955 it has housed the Linwood Center, opened by Jeanne M. Simmons as the Linwood Center for Disturbed Children with 14 day care students and 10 residents. In 2012 the center added a $6.5 million expansion to increase autism services to 70 children.

The seventeen-room brick house was built by slave labor in the early 1800s. In 1955 Jeanne M. Simmons opened the Linwood Center for Disturbed Children there with 14 day-care students and 10 residents, who stayed an average of three years. In 2012 the center built a $6.5 million expansion to increase autism services to 70 children; the Howard County School System contributed $925,000 after outsourcing its autism expenses to Linwood.

The center opened in 1955 as the Linwood Center for Disturbed Children, founded by Jeanne M. Simmons with 14 day students and 10 residents, who stayed an average of three years. Its 2012 expansion, partly funded by $925,000 from the Howard County School System, raised autism service capacity to 70 children.

Linwood sits at 39.33610, -76.75390 in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland. The seventeen-room brick house stands on grounds that were once part of a farm subdivided into 3-5 acre lots in the late 1800s, with setbacks and bans on stores and outbuildings written into the deeds. Development proposals in 2015 tested those protections.

The 2012 expansion cost $6.5 million and raised autism service capacity to 70 children. Howard County's school system cut its own autism expenses by outsourcing to Linwood and paid $925,000 toward completing the project.