Plinlimmon Farm

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Plinlimmon Farm
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Plinlimmon Farm, December 2009
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Nearest city Owings Mills, Maryland
Coordinates 39°23′35″N76°47′59″W / 39.39306°N 76.79972°W / 39.39306; -76.79972 Coordinates: 39°23′35″N76°47′59″W / 39.39306°N 76.79972°W / 39.39306; -76.79972
Area8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built1839
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Vernacular
NRHP reference No. 83002943 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 19, 1983

Plinlimmon Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is an early 19th-century farmhouse of log construction clad in novelty siding. It is composed of six irregularly spaced bays, one room deep, and two and a half stories high with a gable roof. Also on the property is a stone building with a gable roof built about 1850, a frame two-bay garage, a small rectangular smokehouse built about 1850, a large mid-19th century cornhouse, and an early 20th-century frame barn. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Katherine S. Simkins (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Plinlimmon Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.