Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm explained

Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm
Location:11720 Wolfsville Rd., Myersville, Maryland
Coordinates:39.5569°N -77.5272°W
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:July 31, 1998
Refnum:98000944

Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Myersville, Maryland, Frederick County. It consists of a mid-19th-century, Greek Revival farmhouse and 13 related buildings and structures. The house is a -story stone center-passage house on a limestone foundation, with a -story kitchen wing and 18adj=midNaNadj=mid walls. The house was built between 1840 and 1850. Also on the property is an 1881 tenant house with corresponding barn, spring house, and washhouse / privy; an 1884–1897 bank barn; a pre-1830 granary; a 19th-century wood shed; late-19th-century hog pen / chicken house; a pre-1830 beehive oven; a late-19th-century smokehouse; a spring house with a Late Victorian cottage addition; and early-20th-century concrete block milk house; and a log summer kitchen of unknown date. The Grossnickel family was a German American family who were instrumental in the establishment of the Grossnickel Church of the Brethren.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm . February 1998. 2016-01-01 . Elizabeth Jo Lampl. Maryland Historical Trust.