The Willows | |
The Willows in 2017 | |
Location | Southwest of Cavetown on Maryland Route 66, Cavetown, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 39°37′34″N77°36′12.3″W / 39.62611°N 77.603417°W Coordinates: 39°37′34″N77°36′12.3″W / 39.62611°N 77.603417°W |
Area | 150 acres (61 ha) |
Built | 1795 |
Architectural style | Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 73000940 [1] |
Added to NRHP | February 23, 1973 |
The Willows is a historic farm complex located at Cavetown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The farmhouse is a four bay long two-story Federal brick structure that is painted white. Also on the property are a one-story stone springhouse; a log pig house; a brick necessary; a stone smokehouse; "the old house," a former slave quarters; and two frame barns. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
The Inns on the National Road is a national historic district near Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. It originally consisted of 11 Maryland inns on the National Road and located in Allegany and Garrett counties. Those that remain stand as the physical remains of the almost-legendary hospitality offered on this well-traveled route to the west.
Willow Grove is a historic home located at Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is one of the few Georgian-style houses in Caroline County that were constructed between 1780 and 1790. It is a two-story brick house covered with a thin coat of stucco, measuring 37 feet long and 34 feet deep. It was built by Matthew Driver, Jr., who with three other members from Caroline County ratified the United States Constitution at the State Convention in 1788.
Antietam Hall is a historic home located in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, partially Flemish bond brick dwelling, set on a low limestone foundation. The house has a slate roof and four chimneys. The property includes a large barn and other outbuildings, including a 1 1⁄2-story four-bay brick secondary dwelling.
Ditto Knolls is a historic home and farm located near Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1790, and is a five-bay, two-story brick house with a two-bay, one-story brick rear wing. It features a one-story entrance porch supported by Doric columns. Also on the property is a large stone bank barn and springhouse. It is one of two historic farm complexes located in Ditto Farm Regional Park, along with the Henry McCauley Farm.
Elliott-Bester House is a historic home in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story brick dwelling, painted yellow and trimmed with black and white. The home is associated with Commodore Jesse D. Elliott who spent his boyhood years there.
Bell-Varner House is a historic home located at Leitersburg, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2 1⁄2-story, five-bay brick dwelling with a two-story, four-bay rear wing, built in 1851 It features a partially enclosed double porch and slate roof.
Cedar Grove is a historic home located at Williamsport in Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, four-bay brick-cased log dwelling with a central chimney built of stone and brick. The original part of the house was built about 1760, with later Federal-style additions. The house is likely one of the early tenement houses on Lord Baltimore's Conococheague Manor.
Wilson–Miller Farm is a historic home and farm located near Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The house is a two-story, two-part, eight-bay log building resting on fieldstone foundations. The house features three brick chimneys, each painted red. Outbuildings include a one-story stone springhouse and a frame bank barn.
Hoffman Farm is a historic farm complex located at Keedysville, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It consists of an 1840s Greek Revival style two-story brick dwelling, adjacent brick slave quarters, a Federal-style stone house built about 1810 over a spring, a frame wagon shed, a log hog barn, and a frame forebay bank barn. The farm buildings were used as a hospital during the American Civil War in Battle of Antietam from the day of the battle on September 17, 1862, and through the following month. Over 800 men were hospitalized in the barn, house, outbuildings, and grounds.
Ingram–Schipper Farm is a historic farm complex located near Boonsboro, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, four-bay Flemish bond brick dwelling with white trim and water table. The house features a Victorian period flat-roofed one-story porch and a slate roof. The property includes a number of early outbuildings, including a brick kitchen and wash house, three log buildings, one of which has a fireplace and appears to have been a dwelling, and a large stone barn.
Henry McCauley Farm is a historic farm complex located at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The house is a four-bay, two-story brick dwelling built between 1830 and 1850, with a four bay ell and a small one-story shed-roofed addition. The walls are set on low limestone foundations. The property also includes a large stone and frame bank barn and a metal windmill for pumping water. It is one of two historic farm complexes located in Ditto Farm Regional Park, along with Ditto Knolls.
The Rohrer House, also known as Silsby House, is a historic home located at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a three-bay, two-story brick dwelling, with a two bay frame rear wing, painted white with black trim. The house is set on fieldstone foundations and was built about 1790.
The Sprechers Mill House, also known as Salisbury, is a historic home located at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, three-bay brick structure set on low fieldstone foundations, with a one-story, two-bay brick wing also of brick construction. The home features an elaborate main entrance.
Tammany, or Mount Tammany, is a historic home located at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-part brick structure resting on low fieldstone foundations. The main block is a two-story, three-bay structure with a side hall entrance. Attached to its north gable wall is a two-story five-bay structure also of brick. The house features a one-story porch with a low hipped roof, supported by round Doric columns. It is believed to have been built in the 1780s by Matthew Van Lear, a prominent early resident of Washington County.
Houses At 16-22 East Lee Street is a block of historic homes located at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. They area group of five, 2 1⁄2-story frame rowhouses. The buildings rest on brick and stone foundations and have two inner open passageways leading from the street to the rear elevations. They are an important example of lower middle class domestic architecture in Hagerstown, erected about 1894.
Hitt's Mill and Houses, also known as Pry's Mill, Valley Mills, Hitt House, is a historic home and mill complex located at Keedysville, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a five-story stone and brick structure built as a grist mill. The ground story and the first full story above ground level are constructed of coursed limestone; the upper stories are built of brick. Also on the property is a square log outbuilding with a hipped roof, a large frame bank barn, and part of a fieldstone barnyard fence. The mill and the Hitt house served as hospitals during and after the nearby Civil War Battle of Antietam.
Nicodemus Mill Complex is a historic home and mill complex located at Keedysville, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It consists of a dated 1810 2 1⁄2-story, five-bay stone house with a mid-19th-century brick service wing, the ruins of a grist mill built about 1829, and an extensive complement of 19th-century domestic and agricultural outbuildings including a stone springhouse, stone-end bank barn, brick out kitchen, frame wash house, and a stuccoed stone secondary dwelling. It is an intact representative example of the type of farmstead characteristic of the region during the 19th century.
Hagerstown Armory is a historic armory located at 328 N. Potomac Street in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story Flemish bond brick structure with full basement emulating a Medieval fortification, built in 1926. The front facade features a central block offset by two, three-story towers. Tower tops are characterized by a ring of scalloped stone molding, surmounted by a ring of brick dentils, and topped by two crenelles per side with stone caps. The center section is topped by two crenelles with stone caps with stone tablet bearing the seal of the State of Maryland centered between them.
Washington County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at 95 West Washington Street in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story red brick structure with white trim and decorative work in brownstone, constructed in 1872 in the Italianate style. The building features a central tower on the front façade above the main entrance and a coursed limestone foundation from an earlier courthouse which burned. It also has a mansard roof covered with shingles. The annex was built in 1963.
Lehman's Mill Historic District is a national historic district at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The district comprises the remaining buildings of the mill group including the brick Lehman's Mill, built in 1869 for Henry F. Lehman, the farmstead with a stuccoed stone house dated 1837 with older and newer sections, a barn, carriage house, and agricultural outbuildings; another dwelling, also built by Lehman in 1877, a two-story brick and frame house; related outbuildings, and a portion of the mill's head and tail race. It is the oldest continuously operating mill in Washington County, and is the most intact mill complex remaining in the county.