Tours
Tour of Annapolis
Friday,
March 10th, 2006
12:30 - 5:30 pm
Fee: $60
Boxed lunch available and photo ID required for
admission to sites
This bus tour will leave the Hyatt at
12:30 pm for the 45 minute drive to the city of
Annapolis, the capital of Maryland. Annapolis was
named in honor of Princess Anne, a future Queen
of England. In 1694, Annapolis was named the capital
of the entire colony. It was the capital of the
United States when the Treaty of Paris was signed
there ending the Revolutionary War,
Your first stop will be at the Maryland
State House where you will see the room where George
Washington resigned his commission. The State House
was built, burned, rebuilt and rebuilt again in
1772. It is this structure which has been in use
ever since its completion in 1779. It is the oldest
state capitol building in continuous legislative
use in the United States.
Your second stop will be at the Hammond-Harwood House
one of America’s “most beautiful Anglo-Palladian house.”
This jewel was built in 1774 by English Architect William Buckland
for wealthy tobacco planter Matthias Hammond. It nw houses one of
America’s finest collections of 18th-century decorative and
fine arts.
The next stop will be the United States
Naval Academy, one of the most prestigious institutions
of higher learning in the nation. A guided tour
of the 338-acre campus, known as "the Yard,"
will reveal the largest collection of beaux arts
architecture in the United States. The entire campus
has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
Bus will depart for Baltimore from City
Dock at 5:00 pm.
