Carroll County Almshouse and Farm

Carroll County Almshouse and Farm, also known as the Carroll County Farm Museum, is a historic farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. It consists of a complex of 15 buildings including the main house and dependencies. The 30-room brick main house was originally designed and constructed for use as the county almshouse. It is a long, three-story, rectangular structure, nine bays wide at the first- and second-floor levels of both front and rear façades. It features a simple frame cupola sheltering a farm bell. A separate two-story brick building with 14 rooms houses the original summer kitchen, wash room, and baking room, and may have once housed farm and domestic help. Also on the property is a brick, one-story dairy with a pyramidal roof dominated by a pointed finial of exaggerated height with Victorian Gothic "icing" decorating the eaves; a large frame and dressed stone bank barn; and a blacksmith's shop, spring house, smokehouse, ice house, and numerous other sheds and dependencies all used as a part of the working farm museum activities. The original Carroll County Almshouse was founded in 1852 and the Farm Museum was established in 1965.

Carroll County Almshouse and Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Carroll County Almshouse and Men's Dormitory
Location500 S. Center St. Westminster, Maryland
Coordinates39°33′30″N 76°59′44″W
Area140 acres (57 ha)
Built1852 (1852)
Architectural styleGothic
NRHP reference No.75000878
Added to NRHPDecember 4, 1975

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

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