Jacob F. Shaffer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Millers

Millers, Maryland

Millers is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The Jacob F. Shaffer Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.-References:...

, Carroll County, Maryland

Carroll County, Maryland

Carroll County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2010, its population was 167,134. It was named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton , signer of the American Declaration of Independence. Its county seat is Westminster....

. The complex consists of a brick house built in 1854, a rare stone bank barn

Bank barn

A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill, or bank, both the upper and the lower floors area could be accessed from ground level, one area at the top of the hill and the other at the bottom...

, a frame summer kitchen, and a frame corn crib. The house is a two-story, three-bay wide, banked brick structure with Flemish bond on the east-facing facade.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1998.

External links

• Jacob F. Shaffer Farm, Carroll County, including photo from 1992, at Maryland Historical Trust