Two blocks beyond the National Aquarium, you will come to President Street, a large divided boulevard. Stay on Pratt Street across President Street. The next stoplight is Albemarle Street. The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House is on the corner of Pratt and Albemarle Streets, on the left. Turn left onto Albemarle Street.
Free parking is available along the brick sidewalk adjacent to the entrance gate.
Get your free parking pass in the Gift Shop when you arrive. Visitors to the Flag House are given a personalized tour of the 18th-century home of Mary Young Pickersgill and the adjacent 1812 Museum. The house is furnished in fine Federal antiques and is the ideal place to learn about the making of the Star-Spangled Banner, America's oldest national flag. You'll learn how Mary Pickersgill, a widowed flag maker and mother, made the largest flag ever to fly over a military fort in our nation's history. The 1812 Museum features an acclaimed video presentation and artifacts from the War of 1812, including three British mortar shells fired at Fort McHenry.