The Schoolridge Farm, also known as School House Ridge, is a historic home located at
Upper Fairmount,
Somerset County,
Maryland
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,
United States
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. It is a two-story two-
bay
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side-hall / double pile
Flemish bond brick house with a steeply pitched wood shingle roof, built about 1780. Attached to the house is a one-story frame kitchen wing and -story, three-bay frame addition. Also on the property is a 19th-century frame
smokehouse
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, modern utility building and a screened-in
gazebo
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Etymology
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The Schoolridge Farm was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
References
External links
*, including photo from 1985, at Maryland Historical Trust
Houses in Somerset County, Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses completed in 1780
National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland
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