Blog Category: Item of the Week

Old Money   

Apr 1, 2025

The Hammond-Harwood House is pleased to share the news of our latest accession to the collection: an eight dollar bill printed on August 14, 1776, by a member of Maryland’s […]

From the collection: Moving Forward!

Nov 20, 2024

We have a number of clocks in the Hammond-Harwood House and they each have their own personality—or at least I have assigned them personalities. We have the beautiful large John […]

Bricks, Bricks, Bricks

Nov 20, 2024

We’re seeing some major progress on the Maryland Avenue Landscape Project this week. The crews have finished digging the drywells, which are four to five feet deep and now lined […]

Lessons from Archaeology

Nov 20, 2024

One of the artifacts found by archaeologists during excavations in the front yard of Hammond-Harwood House this summer was the head of a doll – immediately identified as a “Frozen […]

A Remembrance

Jun 18, 2024

 In 1771 Hammond-Harwood House architect William Buckland arrived in Annapolis from Virginia after completing his indenture with George Mason for the completion of Gunston Hall. With this move, Buckland brought […]

Thomas Hall, Carver

Apr 10, 2024

The all-wood decorative carvings on the front door and in the dining room of Hammond-Harwood House astonish us with their graceful beauty and the intricacy of the designs. A study […]

New Face in Hammond-Harwood House

Nov 18, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that we have a new face now on view in the Ballroom– a portrait of Mr. Joseph Harwood (1775-1825). His connection to the house is […]

Back Away from the Tape

Oct 17, 2023

Do you have books or documents you love that have gotten torn, or fallen apart? In your sorrow, did you just slap a piece of duct tape on the spine […]

Farewell to the Jefferson Campeche Chair

Oct 3, 2023

For over 13 years Hammond-Harwood House has been the proud steward of this non-folding, reclining sling-seat Campeche chair. It sits in the Hammond-Harwood House study under an engraved map by […]

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