Located approximately five miles east of the West Virginia state line in southwest Frederick County, Gravel Springs Farm centers on a five-bay, single-pile brick house constructed ca. 1836. Retaining many of its character-defining exterior and interior features, including five-course American bond brickwork, hand-penciled mortar joints, mousetooth cornice, and original moldings and woodwork, the house is locally significant as a well-preserved example of vernacular, late-Federal period domestic architecture that speaks to the evolution of the Federal style in the area. The presence of five original farm outbuildings further conveys the essence of farm life during that period. The Gravel Springs Farm property is carefully landscaped, featuring native Virginia shrubs and flowers and mature English boxwood plantings, and is characteristically reflective of its well-to-do owner’s pride and glorification of the agrarian lifestyle in a remote area of Frederick County.