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Frederick County Register of Historic Places
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Elisha Beall House (Boxwood Lodge)
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3739 Urbana Pike Urbana vicinity (Private property)
The Elisha Beall House, also known as
Boxwood Lodge, was built in at least three stages beginning about 1810
and ending about 1830. The L-shaped stone house has a twentieth-century
sun porch on the east side. The property includes several surviving
outbuildings. A stone smokehouse and a stone building, which possibly
served as a slave quarter, date to about 1810-1830. A frame
stable/carriage house was erected about 1890. Several barns north of the
house and other buildings were also associated with the farmstead but
are now separately owned. Elisha Beall (1745-1831 or 1838) built the
house, replacing a log structure on the property possibly erected prior
to 1744 by Elisha's father, Nathaniel Beall. Elisha Beall was born in
the log building. Elisha became a wealthy planter who owned many slaves
and generally led a privileged lifestyle. In the 1930s, the stone house
was used as a tourist home intermittently under the name Gray Stone Inn.
The name Boxwood Lodge became associated with the property in the
1940s. The Elisha Beall House was nominated to the County Register by
the owner, Monocacy Land Company, L.L.C., and was officially listed on
October 5, 1999.
Smith's Store and Residence
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3513 Urbana Pike Urbana (Private Property)
Smith's Store and Residence is a brick
structure built in two sections about 1830-1840. The original residence
section is a two-story dwelling with a rear wing on the east side. A
one-and-one-half-story commercial building adjoins the dwelling. The
store and residence have separate entrances. The store's double doors
are still in place but are not currently in use. Thomas A. Smith, the
tenant of the residence and the storekeeper, purchased the property in
1863. In the same year, the post office for Urbana was transferred to
Smith's Store from Cockey's Store. In 1864, Smith had a narrow escape
from raiding Confederate troops who took Smith and his assistant
postmaster captive. The assistant was killed during the incident,
according to a contemporary newspaper account. Smith continued to run
the store for another 20 years, erecting a stable and other outbuildings
on the property, none of which still stand. Later, the store was
operated by Beverly U. Feinour until 1897. Having been a private
residence for most of the twentieth century, the property was returned
to commercial use in early 2000. Smith's Store and Residence was
nominated to the County Register by the owner, the Kiplinger Washington
Editors, Inc., and was officially listed on October 5, 1999.
Whiskey Ridge
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8001 Green Valley Road Libertytown vicinity (Private Property)
Whiskey Ridge consists of a brick house
and frame-and-stone bank barn built between 1852 and 1858 by William
Jones, Sr. (1782-1869). The name Whiskey Ridge refers to a larger tract
mentioned in an 1820 deed, which included this farm and several other
properties in the area. The house has an original rear ell extension and
five bays on its main elevation with a newly installed portico roof
over the central doorway. In the 1970s, an extensive remodeling resulted
in an originally freestanding log building, probably a smokehouse,
being moved and attached to the south elevation of a new addition. In
2000, the current owner redesigned the roofline of the addition and
built new additions, including a sun porch on the north elevation. Other
modern additions within the designation boundary include a swimming
pool and pool house, a gazebo, and a newly erected log building using
salvaged logs. Also planned for construction is a new garage. The
Swisser style barn, or bank barn, has a concrete-block milk house and a
loafing shed, both added during the property's use as a dairy farm in
the early and mid-twentieth century. Whiskey Ridge was nominated to the
County Register by the owners, Wayne and Karen Six, and was officially
listed on October 3, 2000.
Howard Marvin Jones House
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1213 Jefferson Pike Petersville vicinity (Private property)
The Howard Marvin Jones House is a
brick Foursquare dwelling with Colonial Revival exterior details. A
popular house form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
the Foursquare consisted of a basically square floor plan with four
main rooms on the first floor, a hipped or pyramidal roof, and usually
one or more dormers. The exterior decoration often reflected a variety
of historical styles. The Howard Marvin Jones House has
Palladian-inspired, three-part windows in its dormers, a strong Colonial
Revival element. The dwelling was built in 1913-14 by Dr. Samuel
Claggett (1873-1914), who died shortly after the house was completed.
Howard Marvin Jones (1874-1955) purchased the property in 1920 and
raised a family of eight children there. He was a magistrate in
Brunswick and also dealt in real estate. The property remained in the
Jones family until 1981. The Howard Marvin Jones House was nominated to
the County Register by the owners, Joan Porter and Michael Wozny, and
was officially listed on January 2, 2001.
Linganore Farm
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6229 Linganore Farm Frederick vicinity (Private property)
Linganore Farm is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. The main dwelling is a large
two-story, L-shaped brick house dating from the 1850s-60s. The house
displays the influence of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles.
Outbuildings include the ruins of a brick smokehouse and a stone root
cellar. A two-story brick secondary house that appears to date from the
early nineteenth century also stands on the property. Linganore Farm
represents the heritage of agriculture and grain milling in Frederick
County. The property served as the location for mills and a distillery,
with at least one mill present by 1808. The main house was likely built
shortly after 1858 during the ownership of Aaron Anders and John
Reifsnider. In 1891, Henry C. Brown purchased the farm and converted it
to a summer resort known as the Linganore Hills Inn, which could
accommodate 45 guests. Linganore Farm was nominated to the County
Register by the owners, Ivan and Norma Nottingham, and was officially
listed on May 8, 2001.
Petersville Methodist Episcopal Church
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1341 Jefferson Pike Petersville (Private property)
The Petersville Methodist Episcopal
Church is a two-story building of local sandstone construction. Designed
in the Greek Revival style, the structure features a front gable and
two Doric columns at the central entrance. Former Maryland governor
Francis Thomas originally constructed the building as a town hall around
1850. Governor Thomas, then owner of much of Petersville, resided at
the nearby family estate, Montevue. The town hall perhaps functioned as a
political gathering place as well as the social center for the rural
population. The building has a colorful history of adaptive use. It was
converted to a Methodist Episcopal Church in 1860 and to a Reformed
Church in 1900. More changes occurred in 1938, when the church became a
residence. While each adaptation resulted in dramatic interior
alterations, the exterior has remained remarkably unchanged. The
Methodist Episcopal Church was nominated to the County Register by the
owners, Joan Porter and Michael Wozny, and was officially listed on
November 13, 2001.
Newton Schaeffer House (Charles Huseman House)
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3447 Buckeystown Pike Buckeystown (Private property)
The Newton Schaeffer House is located
in the Buckeystown National Register Historic District. The two-story
frame dwelling was built about 1896. This late Victorian-period house
features Colonial Revival and Carpenter Gothic detailing. Newton R.
Schaeffer, a local carpenter and builder in the Buckeystown area,
constructed the house for himself and his family on a corner town lot.
The dwelling was typical of those Schaeffer had been building in the
area but lacked the characteristic gingerbread trim that he often used
as an embellishment. In 1911, Schaeffer erected an addition on the back
of his house. Reportedly used for the Buckeystown telephone exchange,
the addition was accessed from an outside porch. Schaeffer's daughter
Ada, assisted by several other local women, operated the exchange in an
upstairs room. The operators provided telephone service twenty-four
hours a day. The Newton Schaeffer House was nominated to the County
Register by the owners, Samuel and Ellen Pucciarelli, and was officially
listed on August 20, 2002.
Thornbrook
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Thurmont vicinity (Private property)
Thornbrook is an Italianate country
"cottage" that was constructed in two sections: a frame section erected
about 1860 and a brick addition built in 1869. The dwelling is an
example of the vernacular adaptation of Italianate-inspired romantic
cottage architecture, espoused in the pattern books of Andrew Jackson
Downing and others. The first owner of Thornbrook was Professor George
Henry Miles (1824-1872), poet and professor at nearby Mount Saint Mary's
College. Miles joined the faculty in 1858, teaching English literature.
Thornbrook was reportedly built by Miles' father-in-law, William Tiers,
following Miles' marriage to Adeline Tiers. During the Civil War, Miles
(under the pseudonym Earnest Halpin) wrote "God Save the South," the
first song to be published in the Confederacy. The words were set to
music by Charles W. A. Ellerbrock, the arranger of "Maryland, My
Maryland." Miles entertained numerous college and intellectual visitors
at his home. Thornbrook was nominated to the County Register by the
owners, Linda Franklin and Owen Schwartz, and was officially listed on
May 12, 2003.