James Owens Farm
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James Owens Farm is a historic home and farm at Bristol
, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
. The home was built by successful tobacco farmer James Owens and is a large mid-19th century, two-story brick cross-gable late Greek Revival
/Italianate
dwelling. Outbuildings are all of frame construction and include an early-19th century cornhouse, an early-19th century tobacco barn, a mid-19th century board-and-batten kitchen, carriage house, and smokehouse, and a late-19th century chicken house.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1987.
Bristol, Maryland
Bristol is an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The James Owens Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987....
, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Anne Arundel County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is named for Anne Arundell , a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England and the wife of Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state...
. The home was built by successful tobacco farmer James Owens and is a large mid-19th century, two-story brick cross-gable late Greek Revival
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...
/Italianate
Italianate architecture
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...
dwelling. Outbuildings are all of frame construction and include an early-19th century cornhouse, an early-19th century tobacco barn, a mid-19th century board-and-batten kitchen, carriage house, and smokehouse, and a late-19th century chicken house.
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 1987.
External links
- James Owens Farm, Anne Arundel County, including photo from 1986, at Maryland Historical Trust