The house ranks architecturally with many of the great mansions built in the late Colonial period; however, it is the only house directly inspired from a plate in Palladio’s, I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura. It is arguably the most exquisite house remaining from the Colonial period in America. Architect William Buckland cleverly adapted Palladio’s Villa Pisani […]
Read MoreUnquestionably the quickest way to freshen the look of a house or room is to paint it. For a historic structure like the Hammond-Harwood House, how it was first painted offers clues to the vision of its builders and owners. One of the mysteries of what the house looked like in 1774 was solved this […]
Read MoreEarly 20th century collecting was a matter of personal preference, and St. John’s had some of the finest collectors in America looking out for the “Harwood House.” The death of Hester Ann Harwood in 1924 necessitated the disposal of her estate. The contents of her ancestral home were sold in 1925, and the house itself […]
Read MoreHundreds scramble to buy antiques at Harwood Home An Account from the The Evening Sun, Baltimore, MD Annapolis, May 20, 1925–Desire to see the glory of Old Hammond or Harwood House and its treasures drew many persons to today’s sale of the personal property of Miss Hester Ann Harwood, the last occupant of the house. […]
Read MoreThe following guided tours are available by request: Living Like Loockerman : An Inside Look at Early 19th Century Dining Madness Revealed: Mental Health in an Annapolis Family A Visit with the Johnsons: Charles Willson Peale and the Johnson Family Paintings Tick Tock: Twenty Minutes with the Clocks Part One The False Door Tour Silver […]
Read MoreExcited to say I got selected for Attingham and I will be in England this July for the course thanks to a generous scholarship from Lillian Hirschmann. Attingham is an 18-day residential course directed by David Adshead and Tessa Wild, will visit country houses in Sussex, Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. From WEST […]
Read More2019 Exhibit A Perfect Profile: Miniature Portraits, Silhouettes, and Landscapes of Early Annapolis
Read MoreThe Hammond-Harwood House Museum is updating the window treatments in the Game Room. With a generous donation from the Barry Walsh Memorial Fund, started by Hammond-Harwood House docent Frances Newton Harwood, this project can be accomplished. Extensive research of the variety of late 18th and early 19th century window curtains revealed some alternative options of […]
Read MoreWhat moves events? Is it great men (or women)…Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I?…Or is it the separate decisions of thousands of individuals… farmers, shopkeepers, mothers? In this talk I’d like to consider American women in the early 19th century, between 1800 and 1865. This was a period during which America was forming itself – […]
Read MoreBy Executive Director Carter Lively It’s hard to explain why our roofs and their underlying structures have presented us with so many challenges. The answer lies not at the time of construction in the 1770’s, but before that when the colonists in Maryland and Virginia were trying to build their first houses in the 1600’s. […]
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