Cannonball House (Saint Michaels, Maryland)
The Cannonball House in Saint Michaels, Maryland, United States, is a historic house built in the early 19th century. The Federal style house is a side-hall double-parlor design on a corner lot, built for shipbuilder William Merchant.[2] It is historically notable for an 1813 event in the War of 1812 in which the British fleet bombarded Saint Michaels, leaving a cannonball embedded in the house.
This is the actual cannonball fired into the Cannonball House, St. Michaels, MD
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| Location | St. Michaels, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°47′3″N 76°13′22″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1810 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 80001839[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 3, 1980 |
Cannonball House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Cynthia B. Ludlow and Ellen Coxe (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cannonball House" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
External links
- Cannonball House, Talbot County, including photo dated 1980, at Maryland Historical Trust
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