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Maryland Inventory of
Historic Properties Form
2. Location
street and number 8711 Damascus Road not for publication
6. Classification
Category Ownership Current Function Resource Count
district public agriculture landscape Contributing Noncontributing
building(s) private commerce/trade recreation/culture buildings
structure both defense religion sites
site domestic social structures
object education transportation objects
funerary work in progress Total
government unknown
health care vacant/not in use Number of Contributing Resources
industry other: previously listed in the Inventory
7. Description Inventory No. 15-19
Condition
excellent deteriorated
good ruins
fair altered
Prepare both a one paragraph summary and a comprehensive description of the resource and its various elements as it
exists today.
This dwelling house has had many alterations over the years. A two‐story main block faces east. A hip roof west
extension faces south toward Damascus Road. The façade includes a polygonal bay window in the east bay.
A large frame bank barn stands northeast of the dwelling house. A concrete block milk house with gable roof is
adjacent. A terra cotta silo is missing its roof. The complex also includes a concrete stave silo.
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Bank Barn, Milk House, Silos
12‐2007
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Bank Barn and Milk House
12‐2007
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8. Significance Inventory No. 15-19
Construction dates
Evaluation for:
Prepare a one-paragraph summary statement of significance addressing applicable criteria, followed by a narrative discussion of the
history of the resource and its context. (For compliance projects, complete evaluation on a DOE Form – see manual.)
According to local historian Janie Payne, the farm was originally owned by Nathan Warthen. The dwelling house
has a log section that was torn off in the early 1900s. A frame addition was built at that time.1
The farm was later operated for several generations by the Day family. Into the 1970s the farm was dairy
operation featuring prize‐winning cows. In 1975, the farm, known as Tri‐Day Farm, had the second highest selling
animal in the Sire Power Sale hled in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.2
In 1989, the property was acquired by the Kehnemui family of Chevy Chase.
1
Janie Payne, Interview with Michael Dwyer, 1976.
2
Frederick Post, 8-12-1975. Michael Dwyer, MHT Inventory Form 1975.
9. Major Bibliographical References Inventory No. 15-19
The Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature
to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA,
1974 supplement.
The survey and inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only
and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.