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.