MonteJoy/ Santa Fe Farm may have existed as a dependency of "Chews Resolution Manor" as early as 1695. The Howard County Historic Sites Inventory identifies the stone building lying immediately northeast of the main house as an original slave quarters. Just adjacent to the slave quarters is a log cabin, which is clad in wood siding. This cabin may predate the main house and may have also served as slave quarters.

In the last year, the stone slave quarters has partially collapsed due to neglect. The main house is still deteriorating.

Last year, the Howard County Conservancy deconstructed the 1700's-era barn and hopes to rebuild it on its Mount Pleasant Farm in Marriottsville. Funds are being raised for that effort. Grants offered by Maryland Historic Trust were rescinded because the plans call for the barn to be built partially within a bank and not on a full stone foundation. MHT will not advance the funds unless it is a full stone foundation. History indicates that the barn has been both a bank barn and a full foundation barn at one time. Recreating it on a full stone foundation is cost-prohibitive for the nonprofit Conservancy, so the Conservancy is looking for other sources of income to complete its mission.