Maryland Historical Trust Inventory No.

15-24

Maryland Inventory of
Historic Properties Form

1. Name of Property (indicate preferred name)

historic Wilson Farm

other

2. Location
street and number not for publication

city, town Gaithersburg vicinity

county Montgomery

3. Owner of Property (give names and mailing addresses of all owners)

name State of Maryland, Dept of Natural Resources

street and number telephone
city, town Annapolis state MD zip code

4. Location of Legal Description

courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Montgomery County liber folio
city, town Rockville tax map tax parcel P800 tax ID number 01-00009330

5. Primary Location of Additional Data

Contributing Resource in National Register District
Contributing Resource in Local Historic District
Determined Eligible for the National Register/Maryland Register
Determined Ineligible for the National Register/Maryland Register
Recorded by HABS/HAER
Historic Structure Report or Research Report at MHT
Other:

6. Classification
Category Ownership Current Function Resource Count
district x public agriculture landscape Contributing Noncontributing
building(s) private commerce/trade recreation/culture buildings
structure both defense religion sites
site domestic social structures
object education transportation objects
funerary work in progress Total
government unknown
health care vacant/not in use Number of Contributing Resources
industry other: previously listed in the Inventory
7. Description Inventory No. 15-73

Condition
excellent x deteriorated
good x ruins
fair altered

Prepare both a one paragraph summary and a comprehensive description of the resource and its various elements as it
exists today.

The resource includes two adjacent farmstead sites located north of Annapolis Rock Road, west of the Patuxent 
River.   Site 1 is closed to Annapolis Rock Road and includes a house foundation, a one‐level barrack barn, several 
small agricultural buildings, and a small domestic outbuilding.  On the eastern portion of the property is Site 2, 
located closer to the Patuxent River, which includes a ruined frame dwelling house and summer kitchen. 
 
Warfield Site 1 is a complex of buildings about 1.5 miles from Annapolis Rock Road along a private drive.  Only a 
foundation remains of the house, which is said to have dated from c1900.1  The house on Warfield Site 1 was still 
standing in 1990, but was abandoned and windows open to the weather.2  The windows were broken, and not 
boarded up. The porch had four square wood columns standing on brick piers.   A log meat house was intact 
nearby.  When visited in 2008, the house site was marked by a foundation only.  The site consists of a stone 
foundation outlining a cellar hole, a concrete porch slab, and brick chimney that has collapsed. A timberframe 
barrack barn, dating from c1900‐20, has board and batten siding and corrugated metal roof.  Sliding doors are 
made of tongue and groove board and lead to a central wagon drive‐through.  A side leanto contains cow 
stanchions.  Other structures include a c1950 concrete block garage or equipment building and several poultry 
houses with tongue and groove siding and standing seam metal roofs.   Concrete block structures are likely 
pigpens. Standing near the house site is a springhouse or dairy with projecting front gable roof.   
 
Wilson Warfield Site 2 is more remote and is located approximately ½ mile closer to the Patuxent River. This site 
consists of an abandoned house in ruinous condition. The three‐bay, side gable dwelling house with rear ell has 
been dated to c1915.3  The structure has a stone foundation and is clad with horizontal wood siding.  Porches on 
the front and side elevations have collapsed.  A smaller structure, likely a summer kitchen, is located nearby. The 
structure has horizontal siding.  A stove pipe opening punctuates the siding on one façade, and there is an exterior 
stove flue.  A window has 6/6 sash.   
 
 

1
Construction dates and much of the description is from Charlie Mazurak 1997 form and Katherine Grandine et al., MIHP form,
Patuxent River State Park, Resource 15-98, 6-2004 (pages 7-13 to 7-17), supplemented by site visit of Clare Lise Kelly and Sandra
Youla with Charlie Mazurak, 5-2008.
2
Clare Lise Kelly (aka Cavicchi) site visit10-25-1990.
3
Ibid.
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Warfield Site 1, Barrack Barn 
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Warfield Site 1, Dairy or Springhouse 
Clare Lise Kelly 5‐2008 
 
 
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Warfield Site 2, Dwelling House Ruin, Front façade with collapsed porch 
Clare Lise Kelly 5‐2008 
 
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Warfield Site 2, Dwelling House Rear Ell at right, with summer kitchen at left 
Clare Lise Kelly 5‐2008 
 
 
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Warfield Site 2, Summer Kitchen 
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Charlie Mazurak, Sketch Map, 1997
8. Significance Inventory No. 15-73

Period Areas of Significance Check and justify below

1600-1699 agriculture economics health/medicine performing arts
1700-1799 archeology education industry philosophy
1800-1899 architecture engineering invention politics/government
1900-1999 art entertainment/ landscape architecture religion
2000- commerce recreation law science
communications ethnic heritage literature social history
community planning exploration/ maritime history transportation
conservation settlement military other:

Specific dates Architect/Builder

Construction dates

Evaluation for:

National Register Maryland Register not evaluated

Prepare a one-paragraph summary statement of significance addressing applicable criteria, followed by a narrative discussion of the
history of the resource and its context. (For compliance projects, complete evaluation on a DOE Form – see manual.)

 
This resource includes two farmstead sites, both of which are on property formerly owned by Raymond, Mary, and 
Effie Warfield.  The land in question was apparently that which was acquired by the Warfields in 1939.  The 
conveyance was 175 acres known as “The Wilson D Warfield Land”, platted in 1830.4  The land was conveyed by 
Thurman Warfield and his wife Mabel, and Nancy A Warfield, widow.  These may have been descendants of Wilson 
Warfield. 5    
 
Raymond, Mary, and Effie Warfield also owned 63 ½ acres which had belonged to Cost and Georgetta Warfield.  
The property was conveyed in two parts in 1920 and 1929.   
In 1920, the siblings paid $1500 for 28 acres from Cost J Warfield and his wife Georgetta, and William E Hilton. The 
price indicates improvements on the property.  It was part of 63 ½ acres acquired by Cost Warfield et al in 1880 
for $393.56.6  Cost and Georgetta Warfield retained ownership of the remaining 35 acres until 1929 when this two 
was conveyed to Raymond, Mary, and Effie, for another $1500. 7   
 
Raymond Warfield is said to have raised chickens and pigs.  The sisters died without descendants. 8  In 1970, Rose 
Warfield, executrix for the estate of Raymond Warfield, conveyed the property to the State of Maryland, for 
inclusion in the Patuxent River State Park.9 The house on Warfield Site 1 was still standing in 1990, but was 
abandoned and windows open to the weather.10   
 

4
Deed CKW 723:192 (January 1939).
5
Deed 723:192, January 1939.
6
Deeds EBP 22:27 (1880) and PBR 294:477 (1920).
7
Deeds PBR 492:236-7, Sept 1929.
8
Charlie Mazurak interview, 5-2008.
9
Deed 3697:369, June 1970.
10
Clare Lise Kelly (aka Cavicchi) site visit10-25-1990.
9. Major Bibliographical References Inventory No. 15-73

See continuation sheet.

10. Geographical Data

Acreage of surveyed property 167.66
Acreage of historical setting
Quadrangle name Quadrangle scale:

Verbal boundary description and justification

11. Form Prepared by

name/title Clare Lise Kelly and Lorin V Farris
organization M-NCPPC date 12-2009
street & number telephone
city or town state

The Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature
to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA,
1974 supplement.

The survey and inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only
and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

return to: Maryland Historical Trust

Maryland Department of Planning
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
Dwyer, Michael F. MHT worksheet, Nomination Form for the National Register of Historic Places, 15‐24 Wilson 
Warfield Farm, 12‐6‐1973. 
 
Farris, Lorrin,  Chain of Title.  Resource 15‐24 Warfield House, 6‐2008 
 
Grandine Katherine, Chris Heidenrich, Jeff Maymon, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, MIHP form, Patuxent 
River State Park, Resource 15‐98, 6‐2004. 
 
Mazurak, Charlie, Interview, 5‐2008. 
 
Mazurak, Charlie, MIHP Addendum, 15‐24 Warfield House, 2‐1997.