Crooked Intention is a historic home in
St. Michaels,
Talbot County,
Maryland
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,
United States
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. It is a -story brick dwelling, three
bays wide with wings, built about 1753. A -story
Flemish bond
Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called ''courses'' are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall.
Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by siz ...
wing was added in 1956. Also on the property is the original brick
smokehouse
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. and a beaded
clapboard
Clapboard (), also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.
''Clapboard'' in modern Americ ...
dairy.
Crooked Intention was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1974.
References
External links
*, including photo from 1998, at Maryland Historical Trust
Houses in Talbot County, Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses completed in 1753
National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland
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