The Jacob M. Funk Farm, also known as the Heaton House, is a historic farm in

Washington County, Maryland Washington County is located in the western part of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 154,705. Its county seat is Hagerstown. Washington County was the first county in the United States to be named for the ...

, 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 ...

. The property includes a stone house, barn, springhouse and dairy house, all built of local stone. The buildings were built between 1800 and 1840, and represent an outstanding group of early 19th century stone German vernacular buildings of a type common to the area. The house is two stories in an L-shape, with a frame addition. There are five rooms downstairs with an entry/stair hall, with a similar arrangement upstairs. A cellar includes traces of an older house that was incorporated into the new house. It features a fireplace that retains two swivel cooking cranes. The barn is a stone a frame structure of the "Sweitzer" kind, with stone ends. The Jacob M. Funk Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

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*, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Federal architecture in Maryland Houses in Hagerstown, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Maryland {{WashingtonCountyMD-NRHP-stub