Huntington Farms
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| Huntington Farms | |
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 Huntington Farms in November 2025 | |
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| Nearest city | Clarksville, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°12′12″N 76°58′15″W / 39.20333°N 76.97083°W |
| Built | 1840s (demolished) 1870s (current) |
| Architect | John T. Hardey |
| Architectural style | Romanesque Revival architecture[1] |
  Location of Huntington Farms in Maryland | |
Huntington Farms is a historic home in Clarksville in Howard County, Maryland, United States.[1]
Huntington Farms is a two-story L-shaped brick house built in the 1840s by John T. Hardey.[1] Hardey's brother Dr. William H. Hardey, built Montrose next door in 1844.[1] The house was built during the antebellum slavery period in the Howard District of Anne Arundel County, which later became Howard County.[1] John's daughter married Tom Clarke and the couple remained on the property. They had a son, Alan Clarke, who bred and trained "some of Maryland's finest race horses".[1]
Around 1875 or earlier, the house was destroyed in a fire.[1] A new house was built in the Romanesque Revival architecture style that was becoming popular at the time.[1] The house is representative of how this style was applied to farm houses.[1] There are also a number of old barns on the property.[1]
The property contains remnants of a brick kiln that was used by slaves to fire bricks for the original house and other buildings.[1] There is a graveyard behind the house were both family and slaves are buried.[1] The graveyard containing Nicholas Hardy, buried in 1850, is now located between two pipe-stem driveways in the subdivision.[citation needed]
The surrounding farmland was reduced from 185 acres to 13 acres by 1977 or earlier.[1] It was subdivided again[when?] for residential development leaving only 3.085 acres around the original house.[citation needed]