Mount Airy (Sharpsburg, Maryland)

Mount Airy
Nearest city Sharpsburg, Maryland
Coordinates 39°26′55″N 77°46′4″W / 39.44861°N 77.76778°W / 39.44861; -77.76778Coordinates: 39°26′55″N 77°46′4″W / 39.44861°N 77.76778°W / 39.44861; -77.76778
Area 29.9 acres (12.1 ha)
Built 1821 (1821)
Architectural style Federal
NRHP Reference # 86001550[1]
Added to NRHP July 10, 1986

Mount Airy, also known as Grove Farm, is a historic home located at Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a  2 1⁄2-story Flemish bond brick house, built about 1821 with elements of the Federal and Greek Revival styles. Also on the property are a probable 1820s one-story gable-roofed brick structure that has been extensively altered over time, a late-19th-century frame barn with metal roof ventilators, a 2-story frame tenant house built about 1900, and a mid-20th-century cinder block animal shed. It was used as a hospital for Confederate and Union soldiers following the Battle of Antietam. On October 3, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan visited Mount Airy, an event recorded photographically by Alexander Gardner.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Ronald L. Andrews (1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Airy" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.


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