Lankford House, also known as Anderson House, is a historic home located at

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, Somerset County,

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. It is a two-story, four-bay, single-pile frame house constructed between 1834 and 1840. It features well executed,

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trim and woodwork. A single story frame hyphen connects the main house to a frame kitchen built about 1798. Also on the property is the 19th century Lankford family burial plot and frame

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. It was listed on the

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in 1984.

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*, including photo from 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Somerset County, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses completed in 1840 Greek Revival houses in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland Marion Station, Maryland {{SomersetCountyMD-NRHP-stub