File:Entire rear (southwest) side including garage addition; UTM 18S Easting 293917 Northing 4359304 - Thomas Farm, House, 4632 Araby Church Road, Frederick, Frederick County, MD HABS MD-1251-A-56.tif

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Entire rear (southwest) side including garage addition; UTM 18S Easting 293917 Northing 4359304 - Thomas Farm, House, 4632 Araby Church Road, Frederick, Frederick County, MD
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Thrush, Patrick R.
Title
Entire rear (southwest) side including garage addition; UTM 18S Easting 293917 Northing 4359304 - Thomas Farm, House, 4632 Araby Church Road, Frederick, Frederick County, MD
Description
Marshall, James, owner; Thomas, Christian Keefer, owner; Mason, Anne, transmitter; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Lavoie, Catherine C, project manager; Vitanza, Tom, architect; Gordon, Brandon, field team; Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Depicted place Maryland; Frederick County; Frederick
Date Documentation compiled after 1933; 2004
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS MD-1251-A-56
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  • Significance: The property dates to a 1,400-acre land grant called Wett Work, which was patented in 1729, although apparently not occupied or improved until the 1740s. The 1748 completion of the Georgetown Road (later Pike, the present Araby Church Road) connecting Frederick with Georgetown, along with the establishment of a ferry at the road's Monocacy River crossing, enhanced the property's importance. By 1754 a tavern had been built at the ferry crossing. Wett Work was purchased in 1758 by the Scottish-born merchant and factor James Marshall, a resident of Prince George's County. By 1770 Marshall had relocated to his Frederick County property. The house on the Thomas Farm was almost certainly built by Marshall, at an unknown date during the last quarter of the 18th century. Two stories tall with a partial cellar and an attic, the building's walls were constructed of brick masonry, resting on fieldstone foundations...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1192
  • Survey number: HABS MD-1251-A
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1780 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000908.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1747.photos.361994p
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Object location39° 24′ 51.01″ N, 77° 24′ 38.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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