Mount Airy (Sharpsburg, Maryland)

Mount Airy
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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
Built:	ca. 1821
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style:	Federal
Governing body:	Private
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]

Gallery

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  President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers at Grove Farm

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". Mount Airy. Maryland Historical Trust. 2009-01-03. http://www.mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=960&COUNTY=Washington&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Washington. 

External links

• Mount Airy, Washington County, including photo from 1992, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Grove Farm, House, Sharpsburg vicinity, Washington County, MD: 2 photos, 1 data page, and 1 photo caption page, at Historic American Building Survey
• Grove Farm, Dependency, Sharpsburg vicinity, Washington County, MD: 1 photos, 1 data page, and 1 photo caption page, at Historic American Building Survey
• Grove Farm, Barn, Sharpsburg vicinity, Washington County, MD: 1 photos, 1 data page, and 1 photo caption page, at Historic American Building Survey