Salisbury Plantation is a

historic house A historic house generally meets several criteria before being listed by an official body as "historic." Generally the building is at least a certain age, depending on the rules for the individual list. A second factor is that the building be in ...

located at Westover, Somerset County,

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. It has two principal sections: a 19th-century, two-story plus attic

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section whose roof ridge runs east to west, and a first-quarter-18th-century -story brick section with its ridge running north to south. It was listed on the

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in 1975.

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*, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Somerset County, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses completed in 1725 Plantation houses in Maryland 1725 establishments in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland Westover, Maryland {{SomersetCountyMD-NRHP-stub