G-III-B-112

H.D. Eutsler House

Architectural Survey File

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Last Updated: 12-01-2003

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G-III-B-112

H.D. Eutsler House Accident Private 1860

The H.D. Eutsler Houses are located some way south of Aiken-Miller Road, behind a small pond. The older of the two houses is a one story, gable-roofed log dwelling. The larger and newer of the two houses is a two story, gable-roofed dwelling with an asynnnetrical four-bay facade. The log house makes up a part of a small district of log structures (See G-III-B-105,106, & 107), in this area.

G-III-B-112 MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST

MAGI /11207287504 G

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

6NAME HISTORIC

AND/OR COMMON

H. D. Eutsler Houses

flLOCATION STREET & NUMBER

Aiken-Miller Rd., 1 mi. S of road, Approx. 2 mi. S of Accident CITY. TOWN

Accident STATE

Maryland

DcLASSIFICATION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP _DISTRICT _PUBLIC

.x.BUILDING(S) X....PRIVATE

_STRUCTURE -BOTH

- VICINITY OF

STATUS

~CCU PIED

-UNOCCUPIED

_WORK IN PROGRESS

_SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE _QB.JECT _IN PROCESS _YES: RESTRICTED

_BEING CONSIDERED _YES UNRESTRICTED

X-NO

DOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME

H. D. Eutsler ~TREET & NUMBER

CITY. TOWN

Millersville, MD - VICINITY OF

0LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS. ETC Garrett County Courthouse STREET & NUMBER

Third and Alder Streets CITY. TOWN

Oakland

CONGRESSIONAL QI STRICT 6th

COUNTY Garrett County

PRESENT USE

_AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM

_COMMERCIAL _PARK

_EDUCATIONAL _zPRIVATE RESIDENCE

_ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS

_GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC

_INDUSTRIAL _TRANSPORTATIGN

_MILITARY _OTHER

Telephone #:

Liber #: Folio #:

STATE , zip code

368 539

STATE

Maryland 21550

II REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS

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TITLE

None DATE

_FEDERAL -STATE _COUNTY _LOCAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

DEPOSITORY FOR

SURVEY RECORDS

CITY. TOWN STATE

I.I DESCRIPTION CONDITION CHECK ONE

XORIGINAL SITE -EXCELLENT

~GOOD

_FAIR

X DETERIORATED

_RUINS

_UNEXPOSED

CHECK ONE

XuNALTERED

___.ALTERED -MOVED DATE----

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

The H. D. Eutsler houses are located some way south of Aiken - Miller Road, behind a small pond. The property is wooded and appears to be used as a weekend home. The site consists of two houses and a modern barn.

The older of the two houses is a one-story, gable-roofed log dwelling, measuring 22 feet 9 inches by 13 feet 9 inches. The house rests on a dry stone foundation and the logs are v-notched, chinked with small boards, and daubed with mud mixed with straw. The two windows are six over six sash, and the small door on the S elevation is constructed of vertical boards. The board roof is covered with tarpaper. On the E gable end of the house is a large exterior fireplace shouldered chinmey, built of squared stones with a corbelled cap. The chinmey measures 6 feet 7 inches across at the widest by 3 feet 10 inches thick.

The interior of the house consists of one room. The floor is of boards ceiling joists are exposed. Above the joists the ceiling boards are beaded. place interior is lined with brick and the lintel is a single slab of stone. of the house is supported by butted sapling rafters.

and the The fire-The roof

The house is in extremely poor condition. The NE corner of the house is missing several logs and is supported by a colunm of cinderblocks. The house is unoccupied.

The larger and newer of the two houses is positioned SW of the log house. It is a two-story, gable-roofed dwelling with an asynnnetrical four-bay facade. The facade points W. A modern one-story, shed-roofed porch covers the two southernmost bays of the facade and another covers two-thirds of the south elevation. A shed-roofed addition attached to the E elevation makes the roof a catslide.

The house rests on a high coursed stone foundation and is covered on the facade with green asbestos shingle. The S, E, & W elevations are covered with green painted weather-boarding, attached with cut nails. On the facade the windows are two over two sash, while the other elevations have six over six sash windows. All windows have plain mitred surrounds. The facade door, set S of center has sidelights, but does not have a transom.

The roof of the main block is covered with fishscale shingles, and the roof of the addition is covered with corrugated metal. The house has one exterior cinderblock stove chimney on the N gable end. The facade porch roof it supported by wrought iron posts. The interior arrangement of the house is unknown.

Southwest of the house is a small gable-roofed storage building, sided with German siding and roofed with corrugated metal.

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II SIGNIFICANCE

PERIOD

_PREHISTORIC

-1400-1499

_1500-1599

_1600·1699

_1700-1799

"K.. 1 800-1 899 _1900.

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK ANO JUSTIFY BELOW

-ARCHEULUGY·PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING

-ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION

-AGRICULTURI; -ECONOMICS

~RCHITECTURE -EDUCATION

_ART _ENGINEERING

-COMMERCE -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT

_COMMUNICATIONS _INDUSTRY

_INVENTION

-LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

-LAW

_LITERATURE

_MILITARY

_MUSIC

_PHILOSOPHY

_POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

SPECIFIC OATES ca. 1860 BUILDER/ARCHITECT unknown

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

_RELIGION

_SCIENCE

_SCULPTURE

_SOCIAUHUMANITARIAN

_THEATER

_TRANSPORTATION

_OTHER (SPECIFY)

The H. D. Eutsler houses are significant architecturally, the log house as an example of an early Garrett County construction type. This log house includes a fine large stone fireplace chimney , a feature that is no longer found on many remaining Garrett County log dwellings. This house makes up a part of a small district of log structures (See G-III-B-105, 106, & 107) in this area. The larger house is an example of a later Garrett County dwelling, and features six over six sash windows and plain weatherboarding, which indicate an early date for the house.

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IJMAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES c~-TIL- e- 11:2

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ll!JGEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY--------

' " VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE COUNTY

STATE COUNTY

a·~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-m F o RM PREPARED BY NAME i TITLE

Ann Burns, Historic Sites Surveyor ORGANIZATION

Maryland Historical Trust/Bureau of Mines STREET & NUMBER

Shaw House 21 State Circle CITY OR TOWN

Annapolis

DATE

1981 TELEPHONE

(301) 269-2438 STATE

Maryland 21401

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory 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 infringe-ment of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 267-1438

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G-III-B-112

H.D. Eutsler Houses

Chain of Title

368/539 7-13-76 Deed

301/520 8-31-70

Deed

301/518 8-31-70 Deed

153/538 9-29-48 Deed

82/529 8-18-22 Deed

82/527 8-18-1922 Deed

From: Rufus W. Enlow and Paul H. Enlow To: Henry D. Eutsler Consideration: $10.00 "and other good and valuable

consideration" 1. Part of Military Lot No. 3219, 26 acres & 120 perches. 2. Parts of Military Lot Nos. 3218 and 3219 and Nos.

3215, 3216 and 3217 containing 50 acres each.

Excepting what was previously conveyed to other parties.

From: Coral McRobie To: Helen L. Enlow (deceased), Rufus W. Enlow and Paul

H. Enlow Consideration: $1.00 All the forgoing tracts (as above)

From: Helen L. Enlow, widow To: Coral McRobie Consideration: $1.00 All the forgoing tracts (as above)

From: Frederick Bowser To: Lyman S. Enlow and Helen L. Enlow Consideration: $6000.00 All the forgoing tracts (as above)

From: Paul J. Georg To: Frederick Bowser Consideration: $3000.00

All the forgoing tracts, 214 acres Excepting lands previously conveyed to other properties, including "part of water from a certain spring and the right way there unto to M.J. Miller's Sons, which was granted by and between William Georg and Barbara Georg, his wife, and Wm. Miller, Charles Miller and John P. Miller •.. "

From: Edwin H. Georg To: Paul J. Georg Consideration: $3000.00 plus $5.00

All the forgDing tracts, bought by P.J. Georg at sale after default of mortgage.

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Page 2 of 2 Chain of Title

43/207 3-30-03 Mortgage

44/388 3-14-1903 Deed

16/351 4-16-1890 Deed

Allegany Co. 18/690 3-30-1860 Deed

From: William Georg To: Henry Georg Consideration:

All the forgoing tracts: 1. Conveyed to Jacob Beeghley to Conrad Spoerlein, Allegany

Co. Liber: Folio: 553, dated 5-13-1843 2. a. :ML#S: 3218 and 3219 (parts of) conveyed to

Conrad Spoerlein from Daniel Glutz, AL County Liber 18 Folio 690, dated 3-30-1860 b. parts of #3219 (6 acres), conveyed to Conrad Spoerlein from Jonas Mosser Allegany County Liber 20 Folio 422, dated 12-22-1862. c. :ML #S 3214, 3215, 3216 & 3217, 50 acres each

From: Henry Spoerlein To: William Georg Consideration: $2500.00

All the forgoing tracts. Tract 2 a. conveyed to Conrad Spoerlein from Singleton Switzer Allegany County Liber 27, Folio 93 dated 2-3-1868.

From: Conrad Spoerlein & Barbara Spoerlein To: Henry Spoerlein Consideration: $2300.00

From: Daniel Glutz (Klatz) To: Conrad Spoerlein Consideration $100.00 :ML#S: 3218 and one part of 3219/ 82 acres, more or less.

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STATE OF MARYLAND MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Site #: G-Ill-B-112 H. D. Eutsler Houses

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USGS- 7.5 Minute Series--Scale - 1 : 24,000 191+7~ pbot~revised 1974

.1 mile S of road , approx. 2 miles S of Accident

H. D. Eutsler Houses Garrett Co ., MD Ann Burns 7/9/81 House A: S & E elevs .

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G-III-B-112 H. D. Eutsler Houses Garrett Co ., MD Ann Burns 7/9/81 House A: W & S elevs.

G-III-B-112 H. D. Eutsler Houses Garrett Co ., MD Ann Burns 7/9/81 :ts . B: N elev; Fac-W elev.