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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-10 Image No: se16-10-0421 Enlarge and print image (57K) |
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-10 Image No: se16-10-0421 Enlarge and print image (57K) |
| NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places ____JacobHighbargerHouse_____ /-*_.- .. -it . Name of Property Continuation Sheet Washington Co., Maryland Section _8_ Page _8__ County and State House, although there is no documentation of the museum ever having been there.19 Reilly later purchased a larger stone house on the Sharpsburg Square where his well-known museum was located in the basement. In 1910, O.T. Reilly sold the Highbarger property to John W. and Myrtle Roulette for $775.20 According to Charlotte (Roulette) Davis, who later owned the house and lot, her parents, John and Myrtle Roulette, moved into the old Highbarger house in 1908 just after she was born. Apparently the family rented the house for several years prior to their purchase. At that time, the log addition was occupied by a grocery store. The space was converted by her father into two rooms, one for tool storage and one a 'summer' kitchen, and a door was cut through the west stone wall of the house to allow access to the rooms. By 1920, the family had grown too large for the small house, and the Roulettes moved to the family farm. Throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, John Roulette leased little stone house to a "hired hand."21 Charlotte Roulette purchased the house in Sharpsburg from her parents in 1933 for the price of $1,000.22 After her marriage to M. Howell Davis, Charlotte had the property reconveyed through her brother, John J. Roulette, to herself and her husband in 1939.23 Many of the 20th century changes to the Jacob Highbarger House were made during the early ownership of the Roulette and Davis families. Charlotte Davis continued to live in the house until her death in 2000. Architectural Evaluation The Jacob Highbarger House meets National Register Criterion C as an example of a regional vernacular dwelling and workshop/warehouse with Greek Revival stylistic influence, the house and workspace of a local artisan. The stone house is important as an intact and well preserved example of a late period stone dwelling from the 1830s. While stone houses are not uncommon in limestone rich Washington County, the majority of them are representative of the 19 Personal communication from former owner Charlotte (Roulette) Davis as related by Missy Kretzer. *' Washington Co. Land Record 134/456. 2} Mueller, "Hays/Highbarger/Roulette House," p. 8.1. ~ Washington Co. Land Record 193/261. 23 Washington Co. Land Records 208/573 and 208/573-574. |