William and Catherine Biggs Farm

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William and Catherine Biggs Farm
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Location8212 Sixes Bridge Rd., Detour, Maryland
Coordinates 39°37′41.4″N77°17′14.6″W / 39.628167°N 77.287389°W / 39.628167; -77.287389 Coordinates: 39°37′41.4″N77°17′14.6″W / 39.628167°N 77.287389°W / 39.628167; -77.287389
Area17 acres (6.9 ha)
Built1793 (1793)
Architectural styleArt Deco
NRHP reference No. 01001197 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 2, 2001

The William and Catherine Biggs Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Detour, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The complex consists of a stone house, a stone outbuilding / summer kitchen, a frame bank barn, and an early-20th-century concrete block barn, dairy building, and silo. The house is a two-story, five-by-two-bay structure with a three-by-two-bay, two-story rear wing. It is built primarily of rubble stone. [2]

The William and Catherine Biggs Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Kenneth M. Short (December 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: William and Catherine Biggs Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.