Meadow Brook Farm (Westminster, Maryland)

Meadow Brook Farm
Location 1006 Taneytown Pike (MD 140), Westminster, Maryland
Coordinates 39°35′31″N 77°1′52″W / 39.59194°N 77.03111°W / 39.59194; -77.03111Coordinates: 39°35′31″N 77°1′52″W / 39.59194°N 77.03111°W / 39.59194; -77.03111
Area 18 acres (7.3 ha)
Built 1805 (1805)
Architectural style Gothic
NRHP reference # 85001622[1]
Added to NRHP July 25, 1985

Meadow Brook Farm, also known as the John Roop Farm or Samuel Roop Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. The complex consists of the Victorian farmhouse and several period outbuildings including an 1809 two-story brick washhouse, brick smokehouse, brick privy, and brick tenant house. The house is a two-story brick structure that was built in the Pennsylvania German style about 1805. It has the typical gable roof, symmetrical façade, and "L"-shaped plan In 1868, the exterior and interior were remodeled to contemporary rural Victorian standards. The house was built during a period of significant immigration of Pennsylvania Germans into Maryland.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

In mid December 2016 the house was vandalized causing an estimated $100,000 worth of damage.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Joe Getty (August 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Meadow Brook Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. ↑ "Vandals sought for $100K in damage at historic house".


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