Architecture Tour in Annapolis

Free Architecture Tour in Annapolis with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free architecture tour route in Annapolis. The audio walking tour can include stops such as Maryland State House — Completed in 1779, this is the oldest state capitol building in continuous legislative use in the United States, and the only one to have served as the national capitol. The wooden dome, rising 130 feet, was constructed without nails using a system of wooden pegs designed by architect Joseph Clark. Inside the Old Senate Chamber, George Washington resigned his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783, and the Treaty of Paris was ratified here on January 14, 1784, officially ending the American Revolution., US Naval Academy — Founded in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, the academy sits on 340 acres along the Severn River and graduates approximately 1,000 officers annually. The Naval Academy Chapel, completed in 1908 in Beaux-Arts style with a 200-foot copper-covered dome, houses the crypt of John Paul Jones, the father of the American Navy, whose remains were transported from Paris in 1905. Bancroft Hall, the single largest dormitory in the world at 33 acres of floor space, houses all 4,400 midshipmen under one roof., William Paca House — Built between 1763 and 1765 by William Paca, one of four Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence, this five-part Georgian mansion is considered one of the finest colonial homes in America. The two-acre pleasure garden behind the house was buried for decades under a hotel parking lot before being painstakingly excavated and restored in the 1970s using archaeological evidence and a portrait of Paca painted by Charles Willson Peale that showed the garden in the background., plus hidden gems like Historic Annapolis walking tour — The colonial downtown packs more 18th-century brick buildings per square mile than virtually any American city, with the original street plan laid out by Royal Governor Francis Nicholson in 1695 still intact. The walk passes the 1774 Hammond-Harwood House (one of the finest Georgian residences in America), the Chase-Lloyd House where Francis Scott Key was married, and numerous taverns and merchants' houses with original period details including Flemish bond brickwork and gambrel roofs..

Use this page as a starting point for a Annapolis walking tour, a free route, or the Roamee app for Annapolis. Roamee Pro keeps the route flexible so you can follow the stops, skip ahead, or explore nearby streets at your own pace.

• •Maryland State House — Completed in 1779, this is the oldest state capitol building in continuous legislative use in the United States, and the only one to have served as the national capitol. The wooden dome, rising 130 feet, was constructed without nails using a system of wooden pegs designed by architect Joseph Clark. Inside the Old Senate Chamber, George Washington resigned his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783, and the Treaty of Paris was ratified here on January 14, 1784, officially ending the American Revolution.
• •US Naval Academy — Founded in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, the academy sits on 340 acres along the Severn River and graduates approximately 1,000 officers annually. The Naval Academy Chapel, completed in 1908 in Beaux-Arts style with a 200-foot copper-covered dome, houses the crypt of John Paul Jones, the father of the American Navy, whose remains were transported from Paris in 1905. Bancroft Hall, the single largest dormitory in the world at 33 acres of floor space, houses all 4,400 midshipmen under one roof.
• •William Paca House — Built between 1763 and 1765 by William Paca, one of four Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence, this five-part Georgian mansion is considered one of the finest colonial homes in America. The two-acre pleasure garden behind the house was buried for decades under a hotel parking lot before being painstakingly excavated and restored in the 1970s using archaeological evidence and a portrait of Paca painted by Charles Willson Peale that showed the garden in the background.

• •Historic Annapolis walking tour — The colonial downtown packs more 18th-century brick buildings per square mile than virtually any American city, with the original street plan laid out by Royal Governor Francis Nicholson in 1695 still intact. The walk passes the 1774 Hammond-Harwood House (one of the finest Georgian residences in America), the Chase-Lloyd House where Francis Scott Key was married, and numerous taverns and merchants' houses with original period details including Flemish bond brickwork and gambrel roofs.