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BROOKOVER,Jacob Fatt Oxen property Frederick Co MD home.pdf
Jacob Brookover, on March 17, 1767 bought 114 acres called "Fatt Oxen" in Frederick Co, Md. Photo credit: Jack L. Finglass, Winter, 1976 Property name: Fat Oxen Location: Urbana Pike (MD 355), Frederick, Frederick County Description: Fat Oxen is unpretentious, yet elegantly refined. Constructed of Flemish bond brick and facing southwest, the house rises from a knoll 1 1/2 stories over a high rough stone foundation. The kitchen wing is attached to the southeast elevation and is also 1 1/2 stories in height, although shorter. Both the main block and subsidiary wing are unusually deep for a house of this scale. The roof rises at a very gradual pitch. Fat Oxen dates from the third quarter of the 18th century and is basically Georgian vernacular in style. The house has two double parlors with a partially open center hall and is five bays wide and two bays deep. The wing is two bays wide and two bays deep. A high wooden mid-19th century porch with railings shaded the two doors on the f
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