Cannonball House (Saint Michaels, Maryland)

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Cannonball House
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Location St. Michaels, Maryland
Coordinates 38°47′3″N76°13′22″W / 38.78417°N 76.22278°W / 38.78417; -76.22278
Arealess than one acre
Built1810 (1810)
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No. 80001839 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 3, 1980

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 Cannonball from the Cannonball House, St. Michaels, MD.jpg
This is the actual cannonball fired into the Cannonball House, St. Michaels, MD

Cannonball House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Cynthia B. Ludlow and Ellen Coxe (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cannonball House" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
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