William and Catherine Biggs Farm

William and Catherine Biggs Farm
Location 8212 Sixes Bridge Rd., Detour, Maryland
Coordinates 39°19′41″N 77°16′39″W / 39.32806°N 77.27750°W / 39.32806; -77.27750Coordinates: 39°19′41″N 77°16′39″W / 39.32806°N 77.27750°W / 39.32806; -77.27750
Area 17 acres (6.9 ha)
Built 1793 (1793)
Architectural style Art Deco
NRHP Reference # 01001197[1]
Added to NRHP November 2, 2001

The William and Catherine Biggs Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Detour, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The complex consists of a stone house, a stone outbuilding / summer kitchen, a frame bank barn, and an early-20th-century concrete block barn, dairy building, and silo. The house is a two-story, five-by-two-bay structure with a three-by-two-bay, two-story rear wing. It is built primarily of rubble stone.[2]

The William and Catherine Biggs Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Kenneth M. Short (December 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: William and Catherine Biggs Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.


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