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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-10 Image No: se16-10-0419 Enlarge and print image (68K) |
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-10 Image No: se16-10-0419 Enlarge and print image (68K) |
| NFS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Jacob Highbarger House National Register of Historic Places __ f^ ,. A. f*. * Name of Property Continuation Sheet Washington Co., Maryland Section 8 Page _J5_ County and State By the early 19th century, the use of the traditional Germanic plan had been synthesized with more formal Georgian and Neoclassical stylistic elements that were influencing contemporary architecture. The old continental type was gradually replaced by several hybrid arrangements with end chimneys and more formal facades, but with some traditional elements such as the floor plan often remaining. Resource History The Jacob Highbarger House was built c. 1832 on the east half of the Sharpsburg town lot known as No. 130. The plat of Sharpsburg, established in 1763 by Joseph Chapline, consisted of a series of lots oriented on a grid pattern of streets and alleys, each lot generally measuring 103 feet by 206 feet. Chapline's Last Will and Testament of 1769 divided his large estate among his children, including the undeveloped lot No. 130 in Sharpsburg to his daughter Sarah.7 In 1819, Sarah Chapline conveyed lot No.130 to her nephew, Joseph Chapline Hays, for one dollar.8 Joseph C. Hays was the son of Dr. Nathan and Theodosia (Chapline) Hays. Dr. Nathan Hays had begun practicing medicine in Sharpsburg in 1783. He was the first of a series of Hays family doctors (probably sons of Dr. Nathan) in Sharpsburg, the last of which was Dr. Joseph C. Hays who began his practice in 1824.9 Although local lore suggests that Dr. Joseph C. Hays had both the stone houses on Lot 130 constructed and used the log building as an office, no documentation has been located to substantiate this.10 In fact, physical characteristics of the Jacob Highbarger House and its log addition suggest that it was built after Hays no longer owned that portion of Lot 130.11 Dr. Joseph C. Hays sold the eastern half of Lot 130 to Jacob Highbarger in 1832.12 The sale price for the half-lot, measuring 51 !/2 feet by 206 feet, was only $45 indicating that the parcel was indeed unimproved. Highbarger had recently married Catherine Smith in 1830, with his first daughter born the same year. Later census records indicated that Jacob was occupied as Julianne Mueller, "Hays/Highbarger/Roulette House," Maryland Inventory of Historic Places documentation, 1991, p. 8.1. 8 Washington Co. Land Record DD 24/535, Washington Co. Courthouse, Hagerstown, MD. 9 John Philemon Smith, Reminiscences of Sharpsburg, (bound manuscript copy, 1912), Washington Co. Free Library, Hagerstown. MD, p. 48. George, John, and Joseph appear to be brothers, although Smith does not note their relationship. 10 Mueller, p. 11 It is possible that Hays had the slightly earlier stone house on the western half of Lot 130 constructed after his 1819 purchase of the lot; no deed was found for the sale of the western half of Lot 130 prior to Dr. Joseph C. Hays'death in 1841. 12 Washington Co. Land Record NN 34/458. |