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Farm Content is a historic home located at
Westminster Westminster is an area of Central London, part of the wider City of Westminster. The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Bu ...
, Carroll County,
Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
,
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. It is a two-story brick structure, five
bays A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narr ...
wide at the principal façade and built about 1795. It is one of the finest examples of rural
Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
in Carroll County, and as the home of David Shriver, progenitor of the Shriver family in Maryland. Farm Content 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 v ...
in 1975.


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*, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Carroll County, Maryland Houses completed in 1795 Federal architecture in Maryland Westminster, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Maryland {{CarrollCountyMD-NRHP-stub