Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01
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member of the state senate from his
county
Next in interest to the launching of the
religious liberation memorial project Will
be the historical exercises to be held at
the statehouse Saturday morning, NO
vember n, at which the Governor OF
Maryland. Austin l.. Crothers; DR.. Der
nard c.. Steiner. librarian of the Enoch
Pratt library of Baltimore, and others
will make addresses. The B-centenniai
Association hopes that the occasion VIII
he worthy of the presence of president
Roosevelt and has designated COM
mittee consisting OF Mayo or 3 Gordon
TO extend an invitation to the President,
but this committee will not visit the
White House until after the election. All
former governors of Maryland, FORMER
mayors of Annapolis and many other dis
tingushed men have been invited. includ-
ing Cardinal Gibbons.
Many Landmarks.
There is a landmark in Annapolis al
most every few steps the visitor takes,
but the three institutions which form links
between the present time and the earliest
days of the city are the statehouse, st.
Annes Church and st. Johns College.
Beside these. as institutions. not build
ings even the fine mansions occupied by
the notables of revolutionary days-that
comparatively modern. 1t may be also
said for these mansions that they are to-
day among the best architectural adorn-
ments of the town. despite the fact that
within the past two decades Annapolis
has witnessed an era of splendid im-
provement, notable additions to Its archi-
tectural beauties being the splendid group
of buildings in the Naval Academy in
closure. the new court of appeals build
ing. the addition to the statehouse with
much marble finery. and some handsome
homes and churches. Annapolis also mas
we'll paved streets and many evidences
OF modern urban excellence, but II Is old
Annapolis, the well preserved old AnnapO-
lis, that charms. Houses that were own
ed by distinguished patriots and tories.
described by Winston Churchill In Rich
ard Carvel': houses that are the legacy
of the period when Annapolis was one OF
the few centers of wealth, luxury and
culture in the colonies: houses that are
still elegant residences as well as relics
are numerous in the little town. But II
is the statehouse. 1.-The church" and 1.-The
school, that go back to the period before
Annapolis became. as Justice fancy call
ed 1t. 1.-The Athens of America"
Maryland's statehouse is famous in
many respects, but Its chief attraction to
visitors Is the old senate chamber, where
Gen George Washington resigned his
commission as commander-in-chief of the
continental army. This has been re-
stored recently, so that II appears just
as II did in 1883. when twenty members
of the Continental Congress assembled
and Gen Mifflin. the president accepted
the resignation of the man who was aft
erward TO become the first President OF
the United States The old senate cham
Der is noN reserved as a historical mu-
scum. The legislature now meets IN
palatial new chambers in the addition to
the statehouse-an addition which har-
monies with the older part of the build
ing which impressed one of ROcham-
beaus officers as the finest structure
have seen in the country" The front OF
the old building. the corner stone fol-
which was laid in 1772. and two sides are
unaltered. The present statehouse was
built with an appropriation made as fal
back as 1859, replacing structure tina,
did not measure up to the artistic ideas
Annapolis what 1t was In the eighteenth
century.
The State House.
The former statehouSe was built TO take
the place of one.destroyed by fire in 17O4
and that in turn was completed in 1874
three years after. the removal of the CAPT
tai from ST. Mary's City to Annapolis.
All occupied commanding position OIL
the brow of a hill. in a circle which is on
of Annapolis radiate. The other circle
are those around the executive mansion
and st. Anne's Church. If Annapolis
had no other historic evidences the plal
of its street system would confirm II
claim to it's familiar sobriquet, 1.-The an
cient city 1t was laid out before tn
system of building towns In rectangula