Hammond-Harwood House

19 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland

Built in 1774, for Matthias Hammond (d.1786). It was designed by William Buckland from a plate in Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570) and was modelled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Northern Italy. It ranks with the likes of Blandfield as one of the most sophisticated examples of domestic Georgian architecture in Colonial America and since 1940 has been open to the public as a house museum.... 

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Jeremiah Townley Chase

Jeremiah T. Chase, Chief Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals

1748-1828

Hester (Baldwin) Chase

Mrs Hester (Baldwin) Chase

1749-1823

Frances (Chase) Loockerman

Mrs Frances Townley (Chase) Loockerman

1780-1857

Richard Loockerman

Richard Loockerman, of Annapolis, Maryland

1780-1834

Hester (Loockerman) Harwood

Mrs Hester Ann (Loockerman) Harwood

1806-1890

William Harwood

Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, & Professor of the U.S. Naval Academy

1809-1900

Matthias Hammond never occupied his townhouse, he removed to his plantation from 1776 and for the last remaining ten years of his life leased it to various tenants, with Judge Jeremiah Chase occupying the north-east wing. A bachelor, Hammond left the property to his nephews, John, and then Philip Hammond, who in 1810 sold the house to Ninian Pinkney. Pinkney flipped it on the following year for a quick profit to Judge Chase who bought the house as a wedding present for his daughter, Frances Townley Chase Loockerman. Various of Judge Chase's descendants made their home here up until 1924 when his great-granddaughter (Hester Ann Harwood)  - who was also a great-great-granddaughter of the original architect, William Buckland - died. From 1926 to 1940 it was owned by St. John's College and since then has its been operated as a house museum.

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Contributed by Mark Meredith on 13/02/2023 and last updated on 13/02/2023.
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