Downtown Billboard: History Marches On
This spring, Historic Annapolis and our partners invited artists to submit original designs for a public billboard inspired by the theme “History Marches On.” As we celebrate America 250th birthday, […]
Beyond the Garment: Threading Together Denby at Historic Annapolis
Greetings! Welcome to the second part of our blog series featuring new displays at the William Paca House & Garden. Here, I will discuss an exciting new addition to HA’s […]
Anatomy of a Gown: Reinterpreting Mary Chew Paca at Historic Annapolis
Hello, readers! It’s been a while since I posted my last blog in 2025. Things have been quite busy at HA since then with celebrations of America’s Semiquincentennial! In this […]
Imagining One Martin Street
By Ciel Smith, intern at Historic Annapolis and rising senior architecture student at Princeton University / Published on July 15, 2026 Walking through downtown Annapolis is a lovely stroll through […]
A Treasure(d) Chest of Drawers at Historic Annapolis
Happy Birthday to John Shaw! My name is Elizabeth Fox, and I’m pleased to introduce myself as the Curator at Historic Annapolis (HA). It’s been an incredibly busy yet wonderful year or so since my arrival in […]
Earthshaking News
Fortunately, we don’t feel many earthquakes in Annapolis. When a magnitude 5.8 quake shook the city shortly before 2pm on August 23, 2011, my wife and I were three hours […]
Lost And Found
Like every old city, Annapolis has suffered its share of devastating fires. In my last blog, I mentioned the 1704 blaze that destroyed Annapolis’s first State House. Today, the Museum […]
Built In The Year 1772
Visitors to Annapolis: An American Story, now open at the Museum of Historic Annapolis, get an up-close view of the original metal-clad wooden acorn which stood atop the Maryland State […]
Nothing But A Dream
Across the ages, prim and proper elders have often asked some variation of this question: “What’s the deal with today’s young people?” This is commonly followed by the self-righteous assertion: […]
An Idea Of Equality
I’ve written before about William Eddis (see “Our Little Capital” from January 28, 2021), an Englishman who arrived in Annapolis in September 1769, three months after his patron, Governor Robert […]
The Late Dreary Tempest
We Marylanders are used to the winter storm drill. As soon as forecasters warn of an approaching snowmageddon, we rush out to stock up on all the essentials: toilet paper, […]
Of Singular Advantage to this Country
By January 1772, the nonimportation associations of 1769 and 1770, which organized and enforced colonial boycotts of taxed English goods, were already a distant memory for many Americans. After all, […]