Philip and Uriah Arter Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Union Mills

Union Mills, Maryland

Union Mills is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The community is home to the Union Mills Homestead Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The Solomon Arter House was listed in 1987 and the Philip and Uriah Arter Farm in...

, 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 includes a frame house built about 1844, a frame 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...

 built about 1888, and a deteriorated early-20th century frame outbuilding. The house is a well preserved example of a middling farmer's dwelling house from mid 19th century Maryland.

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 2006.

External links

• Philip and Uriah Arter Farm, Carroll County, including photo in 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust