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MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST
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NFS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section 8 Page 6 Hampstead School (CARR-1267) Name of Property Carroll County, MD County and State facilitated the circulation air and people. The red brick exterior with white trim was a popular choice for schools, as were the details drawn from the Tudor Revival Style.50 These ideas about design were disseminated not only among architects but through journals, books, and other publications that were available to builders and contractors. Using this material, it was possible for a local builder and contractor, such as N. Claud Erb, to design and construct a substantial public building without the aid of a formally-trained architect. Erb's Hampstead School, with its symmetry, hierarchy of window and door openings, and axial plan exhibits a fairly sophisticated design. In plan, it strongly resembles St. John's School in Basel Switzerland, which was published in Edmund March Wheelwright's 1901 School Architecture; a General Treatise for the Use of Architects and Others.51 Wheelwright's book, originally published in Boston, quickly spread throughout the country and became the reference for many school designs of the early 20th century. There is no proof that Erb took his design for the Hampstead School directly from this source; he could have derived it from any number of similar publications and made the adjustments needed to suit the Hampstead School. Consequently, he produced a building immediately recognizable both as a school and as a prominent public building. 50 Gowans. Alan. Styles and Types of North American Architecture, 224. 51 Wheelwright, 30, See Attachments.