Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Maynard-Burgess House
Rehabilitation and Adaptive Use Project
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The project will create a useful office/meeting space on the first floor for City functions and include exhibits about the Maynard and Burgess families based on decades of research by historians and archaeologists.
John Maynard, a black man born into freedom in 1810, bought this property in 1847. Maynard purchased freedom for his enslaved wife Maria, her daughter Phebe Ann, and his mother-in-law Phoebe Spencer. He altered and expanded the house to meet the growing needs of relatives and boarders until his death in 1875. When hard times hit the family, Willis Burgess, former boarder and relative by marriage, stepped up with his wife Mary to purchase the house at public sale. The Burgess family kept the property until 1990 when 143 years of continuous ownership by African-American families ended.
Find more about the Maynard-Burgess House on the City's website www.annapolis.gov.
Project Start: September 2020
Project Completion: Summer 2021
Total Cost: $400,000
Support from: Maryland Historical Trust/African American Heritage Preservation Grant Program
Erected by City of Annapolis, Maryland.
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Location. 38° 58.592′ N, 76° 29.394′ W. Marker is in Annapolis, Maryland, in Anne Arundel County. It is on Duke of Gloucester Street just west of Market Street, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 163 Duke of Gloucester St, Annapolis MD 21401, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Central Maryland. It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic and in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies and also the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: This tablet (a few steps from this marker); First Presbyterian Church of Annapolis (within shouting distance of this marker); Colonial Annapolis (within shouting distance of this marker); Mann's Tavern
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