Hammond-Harwood House, Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis, Maryland receives slightly over 47" of rain on the average every year. I think a lot of it fell on the day this photo was taken. We had a very interesting tour of the Hammond Harwood House. Here is a brief introduction to the house from Wikipedia: Hammond-Harwood House.

The Hammond–Harwood House is a historic house museum at 19 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. Built in 1774, is one of the premier colonial houses remaining in America from the British colonial period (1607–1776). It is the only existing work of colonial academic architecture that was principally designed from a plate in Andrea Palladio’s I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) (1570). The house was designed by the architect William Buckland in 1773–74 for wealthy farmer Matthias Hammond of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was modeled on the design of the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, in Book II, Chapter XIV of I Quattro Libri dell’Achitettura. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, and is now managed by a non-profit organization as a museum.

We thoroughly enjoyed our tour even though we had to walk in the rain to get from our parking spot to the house.