Hopewell is a set of historic homes and farm complexes located at Union Bridge,

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. It consists of four related groupings of 19th century farm buildings. The Hopewell complex consists of two historic farms: Hopewell and the smaller F.R. Shriner (Sam's Creek) Farm. Hopewell's two-story main house dates from 1818. It has the distinction of having the first interior bathroom installed in Frederick County outside the City of Frederick. The main farm also contains a stone dairy, a frame

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, a frame

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, a frame workshop, a brick

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, a brick bake oven, an ice house, and a frame Pennsylvania barn. There are two tenant complexes associated with Hopewell. The F.R. Shriner Farm lies in Carroll County and consists of a brick two-story house on a raised coursed marble foundation, two

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, a Pennsylvania barn, two corrugated iron

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s, a double corncrib-wagon shed, two modern feed/storage buildings, a

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, garage, work shed, piggery, and tractor shed. Hopewell was listed on the

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in 1980. File:Hopewell MD HABS1.jpg, Main house in 1977 File:Hopewell MD3.jpg, Barn

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*, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
Hopewell, Pearre Road, Union Bridge vicinity, Frederick, MD
at the

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(HABS) Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Carroll County, Maryland Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland Union Bridge, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Maryland {{FrederickCountyMD-NRHP-stub