Harley-Arnold Farm

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Harley-Arnold Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Harley-Arnold Farm is located in Maryland
Location	, Burkittsville, Maryland
Coordinates	39°23′44.2″N 77°37′55.6″W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed.
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1790 (1790)
NRHP reference #	75000891
Added to NRHP	November 20, 1975

The Harley–Arnold Farm is a historic home located at Burkittsville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The original farm-house was built in 1790 on the "Dawson's Purchase" property along the eastern base of South Mountain in what would later be known as Burkittsville. The home was used during the Civil War as the headquarters of Major General William B. Franklin for the Battle of Burkittsville. After the battle, Confederate soldiers were buried on the farm's property until being moved to the Washington Confederate Cemetery in 1871.

In 2019, the state of Maryland funded an archaeological dig in Burkittsville, and while excavating sections of the Harley-Arnold Farm it was discovered that there was likely another barn on the property that played a role in the Civil War that has since collapsed.

The Harley-Arnold Farm has been the subject of three different paintings by the late artist Eric Mohn.

NRHP 1975 Evaluation

In 1975 the Harley-Arnold Farm, along with the rest of the village, was evaluated by the National Park Service for the National Register of Historic Places. The farm was approved on November 20, 1975 for the NRHP.

The first part of the farm house, built in 1790, is a rectangular, ​2 ¹⁄₂-story five bay farmhouse of stone laid in a random ashlar pattern with wide mortar joints. A wide stone center chimney on the west side of the gable roof is shingled in tin. The 1873 addition, rising ​3 ¹⁄₂-story from a lower ground level, has matched stonework. It is hip-roofed, with a brick end and a brick chimney. This addition extends beyond the original building to the south and incorporates first and second story porches on the west.

The north facade has five 6 over 6 second story windows and four first floor windows with a centered entrance. The longer elevation on the east has evenly spaced 6 over 6 windows on the third floor and five on the second floor with two doorways giving onto a porch. The first story has four small windows and two doors.

The mortar in the older part of the Arnold house is made with creek sand. The color of the mortar changes abruptly on the north facade where the 1873 addition is joined. There is an unusual 18th century cornice under the roof of the 1790 structure on the north side. Instead of a large crown molding, there is only a small molding above the Roman ovolo molding adjacent to the underside of the roof boards. The two 1790 windows on both of the first and second floors have brick jambs, apparently added to bring these windows into conformity with the narrower 1873 windows. The windows throughout the house have stone lintels.

The centered entrance door on the north side is Classical revival with side over lights. The wooden railed and columned porch is a Victorian addition, as is the second story porch on the east.

Between the house and the main street, on the lowest level, is a stone spring-house with tin shingling. The spring still flows, and it did when President Abraham Lincoln drank from it in 1862. The spring-house stands between a pair of huge 200 year old white oak trees.

The many stone fencing walls on the property are examples of the post-Revolutionary and pre-Civil War period. They are of dry wall construction with no mortar used.

From September 14 to 16, 1862, the farm was the headquarters of Major General William Franklin and the center of his operations for taking Brownsville Pass and Pleasant Valley. The outbuildings and basement of the house were used to house the wounded from the Battle of Crampton's Gap as were most of the buildings in Burkittsville. Civil War artifacts are still found on the farm property, where many Confederate soldiers were buried.

Also see

• Beall–Dawson House

References

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