Annapolis Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Maryland State House

  Annapolis holds a capitol where you can trace the Revolution's end. This is the oldest U.S. state capitol in continuous legislative use, a building that dates to 1772 and still houses the Maryland General Assembly along with the offices of the governor and lieutenant governor.

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  Government House

  Here on State Circle rises Government House, the official residence of Maryland's governor since 1870. It sits on State Circle in the state capital town of Annapolis, immediately adjacent to the historic Maryland State House and the surrounding legislative buildings complex that serves the bicameral General Assembly of Maryland.

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  Herndon Monument

  Twenty-one feet of grey granite rise in front of you on the U.S. Naval Academy grounds, the Herndon Monument to Captain William Lewis Herndon. This is the Herndon Monument, erected in memory of Captain William Lewis Herndon, who died while helping to evacuate passengers and crew from his ship, the SS Central America, as she foundered in a storm on September 12, 1857.

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  Bancroft Hall

  Ahead of you in Annapolis, Maryland, sprawls Bancroft Hall, home to the entire brigade of midshipmen. This vast building is said to be the largest contiguous set of academic dormitories in the U.S. It was named for former U.S. Secretary of the Navy and historian/author George Bancroft, and today it is home for the entire brigade of 4,000 midshipmen.

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  Naval Academy Chapel

  Rising above the academy grounds in Annapolis, the copper dome you now approach is known to midshipmen as the Brigade Chapel. This is one of nine designated chapel spaces at the Naval Academy, where Protestant and Catholic services are both held.

All 27 stops

• Maryland State House (State Circle)

  Annapolis holds a capitol where you can trace the Revolution's end.

• Government House (State Circle)

  Here on State Circle rises Government House, the official residence of Maryland's governor since 1870.

• St. Anne's Episcopal Church (Church Circle)

  This circle holds Annapolis' first church, St. Anne's, founded in 1692.

• Historic Inns of Annapolis (Church Circle)

  Three historic inns share Church Circle here in Annapolis, and you're about to step into their story.

• Old City Hall and Engine House (Annapolis)

  Picture a brick firehouse doubling as council chamber, right here in Anne Arundel County, Maryland's Annapolis.

• Maryland State Archives (Annapolis)

  Behind these walls sits Maryland's central depository for government records, holdings stretching back to the colony's founding in 1634.

• Banneker-Douglass Museum (Annapolis)

  Facing Franklin Street in Annapolis, you find a brick Gothic Revival church now home to the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, Maryland's official repository of African American history.

• Middleton Tavern (Annapolis)

  This brick-fronted tavern has welcomed seafarers since 1750.

• Peggy Stewart House (Annapolis)

  This 2½-story Georgian brick mansion goes by three names — Rutland-Jenifer-Stone House among them.

• Chase-Lloyd House (Annapolis)

  Picture 22 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis, where the Chase–Lloyd House traces its story to two owners.

• Hammond–Harwood House (Annapolis)

  At 19 Maryland Avenue, the Hammond–Harwood House greets you with a façade of quiet, mathematical grace.

• Brice House (Annapolis)

  Notice how austere the brickwork looks beside its Georgian neighbors.

• Paca House and Garden (Annapolis)

  William Paca designed much of his own Georgian mansion, the William Paca House, once known as Carvel Hall, between 1763 and 1765.

• Ogle Hall (Annapolis)

  Ogle Hall sits at 247 King George Street, listed in the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties as Inventory AA-530 and known today as the United…

• Naval Academy (Annapolis)

  Here on the campus of the United States Naval Academy, you're within a small, distinct place carved out of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

• Naval Academy Chapel (United States Naval Academy)

  Rising above the academy grounds in Annapolis, the copper dome you now approach is known to midshipmen as the Brigade Chapel.

• Naval Academy Jewish Chapel (Annapolis)

  Beside Mitscher Hall rises the Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel, home to the Naval Academy's 410-seat synagogue.

• Herndon Monument (U.S. Naval Academy)

  Twenty-one feet of grey granite rise in front of you on the U.S. Naval Academy grounds, the Herndon Monument to Captain William Lewis Herndon.

• Tripoli Monument (United States Naval Academy)

  The Tripoli Monument in front of you is the oldest military monument in the United States.

• Macedonian Monument (United States Naval Academy)

  Across the street from Mahan Hall, at the end of Stribling Walk, the Macedonian Monument carries a white-painted wooden figurehead from a British frigate captured…

• Jeannette Monument (United States Naval Academy Cemetery)

  Look at the largest monument in the Naval Academy Cemetery, raised to remember the doomed Arctic voyage of USS Jeannette.

• Bancroft Hall (United States Naval Academy)

  Ahead of you in Annapolis, Maryland, sprawls Bancroft Hall, home to the entire brigade of midshipmen.

• Worden Field (United States Naval Academy)

  Picture Midshipmen football games once played right here on Worden Field, on the Naval Academy grounds in Annapolis, Maryland.

• Navy Bill (Annapolis)

  A charging bronze billy goat meets your gaze here, sculpted by Clemente Spampinato in 1956 and presented to the Naval Academy in 1957.

• Triton Light (United States Naval Academy)

  Ahead on the seawall, where the Severn River meets Spa Creek and the Annapolis harbor, a green lamp marks the Triton Light.

• Chance Boatyard (Annapolis)

  Here in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, a cluster of weathered sheds and buildings marks Chance Boatyard's old working shoreline in Annapolis.

• Colonial Annapolis Historic District (Annapolis)

  Around you spreads a street plan Francis Nicholson laid out in 1695.

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