Meadow Brook Farm | |
Location: | 1006 Taneytown Pike (MD 140), Westminster, Maryland |
Coordinates: | 39.5919°N -77.0311°W |
Architecture: | Gothic |
Added: | July 25, 1985 |
Refnum: | 85001622 |
Meadow Brook Farm, also known as the John Roop Farm or Samuel Roop Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. The complex consists of the Victorian farmhouse and several period outbuildings including an 1809 two-story brick washhouse, brick smokehouse, brick privy, and brick tenant house. The house is a two-story brick structure that was built in the Pennsylvania German style about 1805. It has the typical gable roof, symmetrical façade, and L-shaped plan In 1868, the exterior and interior were remodeled to contemporary rural Victorian standards. The house was built during a period of significant immigration of Pennsylvania Germans into Maryland.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
In mid December 2016 the house was vandalized causing an estimated $100,000 worth of damage.[2]