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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1908 



House is a fine ex- 

 ample of Colonial 

 architecture. The 

 foundation walls are 

 five feet thick and 

 are of stone. The 

 courses of the bricks 

 should be noted, for 

 the alternation of a 

 large with a small 

 brick produces a 

 very pleasing geo- 

 metrical effect. The 

 entrance door, 

 shown again in No. 

 XII, is extremely 

 handsome, with its 

 fanlight, moldings, 

 entablature and 

 heavy swags of roses 

 above the fanlight. 

 Wings of two-stor- 

 ies are connected to 

 the main house by 



corridors. The carved woodwork of the interior is ex- 

 ceptionally fine, even in Annapolis, where there are so many 

 beautiful specimens of Georgian work; the carvings of the 

 wainscot, doors, door frames and window frames in the 

 drawing-room (nineteen by twenty-seven feet), are said to 

 be the handsomest in Maryland. It was not difficult to find 

 carvers, for the many detailed advertisements of carvers in 

 the "Maryland Gazette" show that skilled labor was both 

 procurable and in demand in Annapolis and its vicinity, on 

 both shores of the Chesapeake. There was a romance con- 

 nected with the Harwood House, which was built for Mr. 

 William Hammond between 1770 and 1780. This gentle- 

 man prepared it for his expected bride, but the engagement 

 was broken off and he remained a disappointed bachelor, 

 never to occupy the house he had built with such happy ex- 

 pectations and sentiment. Its first tenant was Chief Justice 

 Jeremiah Townley Chase, who moved into the unfinished 

 dwelling in 178 1 and who bought it in 181 1 with some ad- 

 ditional ground for 

 his daughter, Mrs. 

 Lockerman. The 

 dwelling next came 

 into the possession 

 of Judge Chase's 

 granddau ghter , 

 Mrs. William Har- 

 wood, and is now 

 owned by Miss Lucy 

 Harwood. 



The Brice House, 

 or, as it is sometimes 

 called, the Jennings 

 House, was built by 

 Edmund Jennings 

 about 1770 for his 

 son-in-law, one of 

 the Brices. It is 

 situated o n East 

 Street, near Prince 

 George Street. 

 This appears in No. 

 XV, in which one 

 wing only is visible. 

 An idea of the beau- 

 tiful carved wood- 



XVI Old State House at Annapolis 



XVII — Garden, Paca House, Annapolis 



work of the interior 

 of this fine old home 

 is exhibited in No. 

 XIV. 



Another distin- 

 guished house that 

 has seen wealth and 

 fashion within i t s 

 walls is the Paca 

 dwelling on Prince 

 George Street, near 

 East Street, which 

 was built by Gov- 

 ernor Paca about the 

 same time as the 

 Chase House. 



William Paca 

 was a successful law- 

 yer of Annapolis, 

 who in 177 1 was a 

 delegate to the pro- 

 vincial legislature, 

 and who later be- 

 came an enthusiastic 

 Son of Liberty. He was a delegate to the Colonial and 

 Continental Congress and a Signer of the Declaration of 

 Independence. He was State Senator, a justice of various 

 courts, and, in 1782, was elected Governor of Maryland, 

 to which post he was re-elected in 1786. In that year he 

 became a member of Congress. For ten years, until his 

 death in 1799, he was judge of the United State District 

 Court for Maryland. Arthur Schaff purchased the house 

 from the Governor, and the next tenants were Louis Neth 

 and, after him, Chancellor Theodoric Bland. 



The garden of the Paca House was particularly noted 

 for its beautiful flowers and shrubbery, as well as its trees, 

 artificial brooks and springs, bath house and two-story sum- 

 mer house. Some of it is fairly representative of the past 

 (see No. XVII). The Paca House is now part of the Car- 

 vel House. The latter, brought recently into notoriety by 

 the novel of Richard Carvel, was built by Dr. Upton Scott, 

 about 1770. This is shown in Nos. IX and X. 



These few e x - 

 amples by no means 

 exhaust the Colonial 

 homes of Annapolis, 

 among which men- 

 tion should be made 

 of the Stewart, built 

 in 1763, the resi- 

 dence o f Anthony 

 Stewart, owner o f 

 the famous brig ; the 

 Pinkney House, the 

 Oglehart House, the 

 Ogle House, the 

 Dulany House (now 

 the City Hotel), 

 the Ballroom, built 

 about 1765 ; the first 

 Governor's House, 

 occupied by Gov. 

 Francis Nicholson, 

 governor from 1694 

 to 1709, and the 

 second Executive 

 Mansion, "Bladen's 

 Folly," built by 

 Thomas Bladen. 



