The Piper House is a historic home located at the southeast corner of Main and Church Streets in Sharpsburg

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States, approximately south of Hagerstown. The population was 691 at the 2000 census....

, Washington County

Washington County, Maryland

Washington County is a county located in the western part of the U.S. state of Maryland, bordering southern Pennsylvania to the north, northern Virginia to the south, and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia to the south and west. As of the 2010 Census, its population is 147,430...

, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

United States

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. It has a two-story limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 main block, constructed between 1792 and 1804, with a two-story brick wing, added about 1834. The house features a hip-roofed

Hip roof

A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side...

 porch that shelters the main central entrance.

The Piper House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1999.

External links

• Piper House, Washington County, including photo from 1999, at Maryland Historical Trust