Warington Tobacco Barn, 3006 Enterprise Road, Mitchellville, Prince George's County, MD
Summary
Significance: The Warington tobacco barn is the best surviving example of a mid-19th century tobacco barn in Prince George's County. It exhibits features of early barn construction such as hewn and pegged posts and beams, hand-split vertical board siding and a steeply pitched gable-on-hip roof. Barns such as this were once a common feature of Prince Georges' rural landscape, but few early barns exist today. The barn was constructed ca. 1840-1850 by Marsham Waring, one of the most successful tobacco planters in the county.
Survey number: HABS MD-980
Building/structure dates: 1850
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Lavoie, Catherine C, historian
Location
Mitchellville, 38.93157, -76.80537
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html