Historic Carroll County Jail, Westminster, MD

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Historic Carroll County Jail, Westminster, MD
Historic Carroll County Jail, Westminster, MD

**Westminster Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 80001804, date listed 8/6/1980

MD 32 and MD 97

Westminster, MD (Carroll County)

Westminster, in the piedmont region of Maryland, is centrally located in Carroll County, at the convergence of major transportation routes connecting to Pennsylvania, Washington, and Baltimore, now U.S. Route 140, and Maryland Routes 97, 32, 31, and 27. Geographically, the area consists of gently rolling hills of fertile soil. Westminster is situated on Parr's Ridge, a north-south oriented ridge that once served as the boundary between Baltimore and Frederick Counties. (1)

The Westminster Historic District contains 1400 principal structures of which one percent are intrusions and ten percent are not now contributing.-but have the potential through the passage of time or restoration of becoming contributing structures. The remaining 89% are contributing.

North of the Courthouse is the Carroll County Jail, built in 1837, utilizing an indigenous vernacular form. The Jail is built of green fieldstone masoned in uncoursed bond with strong quoin-like patterns at the corners. Two and one-half stories with a high foundation, its plan is T-shaped. The main section is five by two bays and the wing is four bays deep and three bays wide. The main facade has five 6/6 sash windows at the foundation level, a central doorway and four 6/6 sash windows on the main floor, 6/6 windows in all of the second floor bays, and three symmetrically placed gable dormers with 6/6 windows in the roof. However, in these sets of windows, the size of the window panes used changes from floor to floor. An elevated wooden porch on brick piers with a shed roof exists in the central three bays of the main floor. One gable end has an inside end chimney and the other gable has an exterior chimney that was a later addition to the inside end chimney.(pg 7) (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

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