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Carroll County Almshouse and Farm

1852 establishments in Maryland1966 establishments in MarylandFarm museums in MarylandGovernment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in MarylandMuseums established in 1966
Museums in Carroll County, MarylandNational Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, MarylandOpen-air museums in MarylandResidential buildings completed in 1852Westminster, Maryland
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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.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

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