This House Tour will celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Frederick County. Joan and John Treadway bought their lovely large brick home and 67 acres of land in 1993 while searching for a farmhouse built of stone. The actual date of the house is hard to determine. In l799 he deeded the land to his son and the house was probably built soon after this. The only addition to the house has been a porch which is now glassed in.
Photographs show the original front door on the side of the house.
This door now opens out onto the porch which runs the full width of the house. A former owner, Mrs. Laurin B. Askew, Jr., planned to open a school devoted to art and music. For this purpose she built an addition on the lower level to become a dormitory. The flat roof of this addition became a porch floor outside the front door. At a later time this porch was enclosed and a front door was established on the side of the house facing the road.