Hard Lodging is a historic home located at Union Bridge, Carroll County,

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. It is built on a small cliff overlooking the site where its first owner, Solomon Shepherd, had a mill that is no longer standing. The house was built in three stages: the middle section, a -story brick structure, was probably built first; the main section of the house is attached to the west and is a

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-style, three-by-two-

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, -story house with an interior

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-end chimney. Hard Lodging is currently a private residence and is no longer owned by the Historical Society. The home is an example of

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architecture. Hard Lodging was listed on the

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in 1978.

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*, including photo from 2006, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Carroll County, Maryland Houses completed in 1790 Federal architecture in Maryland Pennsylvania Dutch culture in Maryland Union Bridge, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Maryland {{CarrollCountyMD-NRHP-stub