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Summary

The two-story Flook Farmhouse, built in the early 20th century by Daniel Charles Flook was home to several generations of the Flook Family.

The house incorporates design features from the Queen Anne Revival period (1880-1910), with its focus on elegance and simplicity, and the Colonial Revival period (1880-1930) with its use of design features common to colonial American architecture.

The Flook house was the center of the Flook family farm and Daniel and Nena Flook raised their seven children in this home. The land the house sits on was an operational farm with an emphasis on dairying through the 1960's.

The house is located on Rt. 180 in Petersville in the midst of Othello Park named in honor of a Black slave who became free after the Civil War. After gaining freedom, Othello changed his name to Barney Howard and purchased a five-acre plot of land for $500 on the east side of South Mountain in 1869. Othello’s great-great-granddaughter, Estella Belt, who resides just across the road from the park. Her husband James Belt worked on the Flook farm.

The house is being completely renovated and will have a number of offices for the park service for Othello park. It will also have meeting rooms.

(Photo by Peter Wenner; information courtesy of Frederick County Parks & Recreation and the Frederick News-Post)