Located on the top of Stearns Hill in the Oxford County town of West Paris, Stearns Hill Farm is a collection of agricultural and residential buildings, fields, stone walls and working landscape that has been farmed by members of the Stearns family since 1818. This small historic district includes a connected residential complex, a notable example of a high-drive bank barn, and a field system that has evolved over time as the farm shifted from diversified agriculture to a tighter focus on dairy farming. Among the resources in this 131 acre district is a sap house dating to the mid-nineteenth century and a blacksmith?s shop from the early 19th century. The Stearns Hill Farm Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as an intact example of a family farm which has been in continuous agricultural production since first being established in the late eighteenth century. The farm reflects its significance through an intact field system, agricultural buildings with a high degree of integrity, and a set of buildings that are associated with a diversified, traditional approach to farming, including orcharding, maple sugar processing, lumbering, the production of crops, and animal husbandry. Within the district, the Stearns Hill Farm barn, house, and carriage shed are also significant architecturally as an example of a connected farm complex that developed in the mid-nineteenth century in Maine. In addition, the barn is notable as a modified high-drive bank barn, a type of barn developed in the latter decades of the 19th century, and which is relatively unusual in Maine.