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New Windsor Historic District

Inventory No.: CARR-1494

Date Listed: 8/21/1997

Location: New Windsor, Carroll County

Category: District

Period/Date of Construction: 1796-1941

Architect/Builder: Architects/builders: Howard Senseney, A. Grant Kauffman, and Benjamin D. Price

Resources: 225 (193 contributing, 22 non-contributing)

Description: The New Windsor Historic District comprises the majority of the town of New Windsor, located in west central Carroll County, Maryland. The district contains a wide variety of domestic, commercial, public, educational, and religious resources reflecting the development of the town from its founding in 1796 up to the World War II era. The town is laid out on a grid plan. Domestic resources are characterized by various traditional vernacular forms and popular styles. Most common are 2 or 2 1/2-story center-entrance or center-passage plan dwellings, of both three and five bays, and three-bay side-passage plan houses. Several examples of the Pennsylvania Farmhouse plan, with two central doors, exist in New Windsor. The influence of popular styles began to be felt in the post-Civil War period. Queen Anne houses began to gain popularity in the 1870s, and their influence continued into the 20th century, sometimes blending with the Colonial Revival. Early 20th century trends are represented by T-plan houses, with a gable end to the street and a short wing on either side; about half a dozen Bungalows; numerous Foursquare houses; and a few 1 1/2-story, two-bay or three-bay frame "Cottage Style" houses. A number of commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings are important to the architectural character of New Windsor. These include the Dielman Inn, which was established at the major crossroads in the late 18th century, and continued to develop through the 19th. The former Blue Ridge College consists of four historic structures, three of them arranged in an arc along the ridge, overlooking New Windsor Road. Three historic churches and three banks characterize the town. Several industrial buildings formerly stood along the railroad tracks near the southern boundary of the district; most of these have vanished. A survivor is the Fairfield Farms Dairy Creamery. The town hall and firehouse on High Street is an early 20th century brick structure with a flat roof. A variety of outbuildings, most of them on the alleys, contribute to the historic character of New Windsor; foremost among these are numerous carriage houses. The district retains an exceptionally high level of integrity, with relatively few intrusions or non-contributing elements.

Significance: New Windsor is a small Piedmont town in western Carroll County, Maryland. Originally laid out in 1797 by Isaac Atlee at the confluence of the Monocacy Road and the Buffalo Road, it experienced steady growth along one main street in the first half of the 19th century. Early in the second half of the 19th century a grid plan was developed, and this was expanded in the early 20th century. Building activity seems to have peaked in the period c. 1860-1873 and c. 1898-1915, but in general there was steady growth in the intervening years. Much of this building was in the local vernacular of Carroll County, but this began to change considerably in the 1870s and 1880s, as nationally popular architectural styles began to exert an influence on New Windsor's streetscapes. Thus, New Windsor is significant for its reflection of Piedmont town development, local building practices and the influence of national architectural trends on these traditions. This infrastructure illustrates the way of life of a community from the formative period of Carroll County, ca. 1796, to the beginning of the second World War in 1941. In addition, unlike most towns in Carroll County, New Windsor developed not only as a focal point for the surrounding farm community, but also served as a summer resort town for people from Baltimore and Washington from its beginning.

District Resources (225) (193 contributing, 22 non-contributing)

From associated listing in National Register nomination form. C = Contributing, NC = non-contributing, blank = not evaluated.

Address	Status	Resource Name and MIHP (if any)
103 Blue Ridge Avenue	C
105 Blue Ridge Avenue	C
107 Blue Ridge Avenue	C
Church Street	C	Oddfellows Hall
10? Church Street	C
105 Church Street	C
106 Church Street	C
108-110 Church Street	C
109 Church Street	C
111 Church Street	C	Former Dunker Church
112 Church Street	C
113-115 Church Street	C
114 Church Street	C
114 Church Street	C
116-118 Church Street	C
117-119 Church Street	C
120 Church Street	C
121-123 Church Street	C
122 Church Street	C
124 Church Street	C
125 Church Street	C
126-128 1/2 Church Street	C
127 Church Street	C
131 Church Street	C
132 Church Street	C
136 Church Street	C	CARR-1429 -- Frank J. Devilbiss House
138 Church Street	C
140 Church Street	C
142 Church Street	C
203 Church Street	C
204 Church Street	C
205 Church Street	C
206 Church Street	C
207 Church Street	C
209 Church Street	C
210 Church Street	C
211 Church Street	C
300 Church Street	C
301 Church Street	C
302 Church Street	C
303 Church Street	C
304 Church Street	C
305 Church Street	C
306 Church Street	C
307 Church Street	C
308 Church Street	C
309 Church Street	C
310 Church Street	C
311 Church Street	C
312 Church Street	C
314 Church Street	C
401 Church Street	C
402 Church Street	C
403 Church Street	C
405 Church Street	C
406 Church Street	C
407 Church Street	C
408 Church Street	C
409 Church Street	C
411 Church Street	C
412 Church Street	C
413 Church Street	C
415 Church Street	C
416 Church Street	C
417 Church Street	C
418 Church Street	C
420 Church Street	C
507 Church Street	C
Church Street and High Street (MD 31)	C	CARR-169 -- New Windsor Presbyterian Church (Greenwood Congregation)
College Avenue	C	CARR-17 -- Old Main (New Windsor, Calvert, and Blue Ridge Colleges)
302 College Avenue	C
303 College Avenue	C
304 College Avenue	C
305 College Avenue	C
311 College Avenue	C
315 College Avenue	C
320 College Avenue	C
322 College Avenue	C
324 College Avenue	C
332 College Avenue	C
334 College Avenue	C
105 Green Valley Road	C
1020 Green Valley Road	C
1026 Green Valley Road	C
1032 Green Valley Road	C
1038 Green Valley Road	C
1044 Green Valley Road	C
1100 Green Valley Road	C
Green Valley Road (MD 75)	C	School
High Street	C	Town Hall and Firehouse
107 High Street	C
209 High Street	C
211 High Street	C
304 High Street	C
305 High Street	C
306 High Street	C
307 High Street	C
308 High Street	C
309 High Street	C
310 High Street	C
313 High Street	C
401 High Street	C
406 High Street	C
408 High Street	C
409 High Street	C
410 High Street	C
412 High Street	C
414 High Street	C
416 High Street	C
417 High Street	C
423 High Street	C
500 High Street	C
302 High Street (MD 31)	C	CARR-551 -- Bixler House
311 High Street (MD 31)	C	CARR-274 -- Jonas Ecker House
312 High Street (MD 31)	C	CARR-272 -- Jacob Leppo House
404 High Street (MD 31)	C	CARR-273 -- Joseph Stouffer House
Main Street	C	New Windsor State Bank
106 Main Street	C
110 Main Street	C
112 Main Street	C
115 Main Street	C
117 Main Street	C
119-121 Main Street	C
123-125 Main Street	C
124 Main Street	C
126 Main Street	C	CARR-1490 -- Charles Jones House
127 Main Street	C
128 Main Street	C	CARR-1466 -- Bond-Cool-Baile-Otto House
129 Main Street	C
133 Main Street	C
137-141 Main Street	C	Dielman Inn
201 Main Street	C
201? Main Street	C
204 Main Street	C
205 Main Street	C	Bank
207 Main Street	C	CARR-1402 -- Sensinig-Ecker House
209 Main Street	C
209-211? Main Street	C	Bank
212 Main Street	C
214 Main Street	C
216 Main Street	C
217 Main Street	C
218 Main Street	C
219 Main Street	C
221 Main Street	C
222 Main Street	C
223 Main Street	C
231 Main Street	C
233 Main Street	C
235 Main Street	C
301 Main Street	C
305 Main Street	C
307 Main Street	C
308 Main Street	C
309 Main Street	C
310 Main Street	C
311 Main Street	C
312 Main Street	C
313 Main Street	C
314 Main Street	C
315 Main Street	C
317 Main Street	C
401 Main Street	C
402 Main Street	C
403 Main Street	C
404 Main Street	C	School
405 Main Street	C
407 Main Street	C
409 Main Street	C
410 Main Street	C
411 Main Street	C
415 Main Street	C
415? Main Street	C
417 Main Street	C
419 Main Street	C
507 Main Street	C
200 Main Street (MD 31)	C	CARR-1103 -- St. Paul's U.M. Church
208-210 Main Street (MD 31)	C	CARR-934 -- Anders House (Peter Brawner House)
Main Street?	C	Fairfield Farms Dairy Creamery
210 Maple Avenue	C
211 Maple Avenue	C
212 Maple Avenue	C
303 Maple Avenue	C
305 Maple Avenue	C
203 Maple Street	C
1313 New Windsor Road	C
New Windsor Road (MD 31)	C	CARR-1550 -- Miller's House
1318 New Windsor Road (MD 31)	C	CARR-1430 -- Hiram Englar House
112 Old New Windsor Road	C
115 Old New Windsor Road	C
Springdale Road	C	CARR-940 -- Windsor Castle
104 Union Bridge Road	C
120 Water Street	C
101 Blue Ridge Avenue	NC
103 Church Street	NC
104 Church Street	NC
410 Church Street	NC
422 Church Street	NC
301 College Avenue	NC
307 College Avenue	NC
313 College Avenue	NC
317 College Avenue	NC
405 High Street	NC
302 Hillside Drive	NC
120 Main Street	NC
206 Main Street	NC
421 Main Street	NC
503 Main Street	NC
204 Maple Avenue	NC
206 Maple Avenue	NC
301 Maple Avenue	NC
103 S. Springdale Road	NC
105 S. Springdale Road	NC
107 S. Springdale Road	NC
109 S. Springdale Road	NC
213 Main Street
227 Main Street
314A Main Street
314B Main Street
316 Main Street
320 Main Street
Maple Avenue		CARR-18 -- Sulphur Springs
201 Maple Avenue
209 Maple Avenue
New Windsor Road (MD 31)		CARR-876 -- Nicodemus Mill, site (Beard & Stremmel Flouring Mill)