Whitehall (Annapolis, Maryland)
Historic house in Maryland, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Whitehall is a colonial home that was built beginning in 1764 near Annapolis in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland by Horatio Sharpe, then the provincial governor of the British colony of Maryland.
Whitehall | |
Location | Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 39°0′15″N 76°25′37″W |
Built | 1787 |
Architect | John Rawlings; Joseph Horatio Anderson |
Architectural style | Georgian |
NRHP reference No. | 66000387 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966[1] |
Designated NHL | October 9, 1960[2] |
The house is located about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) to the east of Annapolis on a peninsula between Whitehall Creek and Meredith Creek, opposite Sharpe's Point on a branch of Chesapeake Bay. The site, originally comprised about 1,000 acres (400 ha). The house is a five-part Georgian mansion of great length, only one room deep in the main section. It features elaborate original interior woodwork, attributed to William Buckland, and is one of only two pre-Revolutionary houses in the Thirteen Colonies to have a temple portico. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.