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Still Pond Historic District

Inventory No.: K-701

Date Listed: 8/26/2009

Location: Still Pond Road, Still Pond, Kent County

Category: District

Period/Date of Construction: c. 1800-1940

Resources: 67 (64 contributing, 3 non-contributing)

Description: Still Pond Historic District is a rural crossroad community of approximately 75 buildings dating from the early 19th century through the 1930s, located in north-central Kent County at the intersection of Still Pond Road (MD 292) and Old Still Pond Road (MD 566). The five-point intersection of Still Pond Road, Main Street, Medders Road, and Old Still Pond Road forms the core of the small town, with the residential streets of Maple Avenue and Trustee Street located north and east of the town’s center. The district is surrounded by agricultural fields, with minimal modern development. The majority of the resources within the district are free-standing, single-family dwellings. The district also includes several historic commercial properties, including several stores, a warehouse, and a former post office building. Community resources include two churches with associated cemeteries, a stand-alone cemetery, a former Odd Fellows Hall, and a former schoolhouse. Most principal facades face the roadways. Older properties in the center of town are located close to the road, while large houses further outside town are set back on their lots. Concrete sidewalks have been installed along portions of Still Pond Road and Old Still Pond Road. A few properties are fronted by fencing or hedges, and most residential yards contain ornamental landscaping and mature vegetation. Most dwellings within the district are rural examples of late-19th-century and early-20th-century architecture. There are several houses built in Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman styles, however the majority of houses are vernacular building forms with decorative elements of these popular national styles. The district displays the variation of features that occur within styles and also shows the transitions between styles. Several properties contain historic outbuildings, sheds, or garages.

Significance: The Still Pond Historic District is historically significant, as a town reflective of the historical development of rural communities on Maryland’s Upper Eastern Shore. Located at a crossroads surrounded by family farms, the town served as a commercial hub and center of community life. The district derives additional historical significance as the first place in Maryland that women gained the right to vote. In addition, Still Pond Historic District has architectural significance, embodying distinctive characteristics of types, periods, and methods of construction of architecture, as it contains numerous examples of Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman styles, as well as vernacular building forms. The district displays the variation of features that occur within styles and also shows the transitions between styles. The district possesses a significant concentration of buildings that are united historically and aesthetically by physical development. The interrelationship of the district’s resources conveys a visual sense of the overall historic environment. Within the district, a number of individually distinctive resources, such as the Still Pond Methodist Church (K-434), the George Harper Store (K-432), and the Medders-Krebs House (K-437), serve as focal points for the district. The oldest buildings in the district were constructed in the early 19th century. The majority of the town’s structures were in place by the end of the 1930s, and the district had substantially achieved its historic character and appearance.

District Resources (67) (64 contributing, 3 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)
12783 Main Street	C
12807 Main Street	C
12775 Main Street & Maple Avenue	C	K-447 -- Wilson-Huggins House
26598 Maple Avenue	C
26612 Maple Avenue	C
26622 Maple Avenue	C
26627 Maple Avenue	C
26632 Maple Avenue	C
26640 Maple Avenue	C
26641 Maple Avenue	C
26652 Maple Avenue	C
26663 Maple Avenue	C
26670 Maple Avenue	C
26680 Maple Avenue	C
26622 Medders Road	C	K-432 -- George Harper Store (William Medders Store, Still Pond Store)
26629 Medders Road	C
26661 Medders Road	C
26743 Medders Road	C
26631 Old Still Pond Road	C
26651 Old Still Pond Road	C
26658 Old Still Pond Road	C
26661 Old Still Pond Road	C	K-437 -- Medders-Krebs House
26668 Old Still Pond Road	C
26669 Old Still Pond Road	C
26691 Old Still Pond Road	C
26641 Old Still Pond Road (MD 566)	C	K-430 -- Odd Fellows Hall
South side of Still Pond Road	C	Still Pond Cemetery
12762 Still Point Road	C
Still Pond Road	C
12622 Still Pond Road	C
12642 Still Pond Road	C
12656 Still Pond Road	C
12664 Still Pond Road	C
12672 Still Pond Road	C
12678 Still Pond Road	C
12700 Still Pond Road	C
12704 Still Pond Road	C
12712 Still Pond Road	C
12720 Still Pond Road	C
12733 Still Pond Road	C
12740 Still Pond Road	C
12741 Still Pond Road	C	Still Pond Town Hall
12749 Still Pond Road	C	Still Pond Post Office and Store
12750 Still Pond Road	C
12754 Still Pond Road	C
12755 Still Pond Road	C
12759 Still Pond Road	C
12765 Still Pond Road	C
12768 Still Pond Road	C
12772 Still Pond Road	C
12775 Still Pond Road	C
12776 Still Pond Road	C
12780 Still Pond Road	C
12792 Still Pond Road	C
12796 Still Pond Road	C
12800 Still Pond Road	C
12804 Still Pond Road	C
12784 Still Pond Road (MD 292)	C	K-435 -- Old Harper House
12788 Still Pond Road (MD 292)	C	K-436 -- Jarvis House
12801 Still Pond Road (MD 292)	C	K-434 -- Still Pond Methodist Church
12835 Still Pond Road (MD 292)	C	K-433 -- Mt. Zion Church
26621 Trustee Street	C
26655 Trustee Street	C
26665 Trustee Street	C
12780 Main Street	NC
26646 Maple Avenue	NC
26679 Maple Avenue	NC