Jennings House, Former governor residence at United States Naval Academy, United States.
Jennings House was a two-story wooden house on the waterfront edge of the Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Maryland. It faced the water directly, forming a clear boundary between the academy grounds and the harbor.
The house served as the official residence of Maryland's governors from 1777 to 1870, when the Naval Academy took over the property. It was torn down in 1901 to allow the academy to expand along the waterfront.
The spot where the house stood sits at the edge of the Naval Academy grounds, where state history and military life come together in the same view. Walking past this area today, visitors can sense how closely the governor's world and the navy's world once overlapped here.
The building no longer exists, so there is nothing to enter or tour, but the waterfront section of the academy grounds is open and easy to walk through. The water's edge and the surrounding layout help visitors get a sense of where the house once stood.
Governor George Howard was born inside this house in 1789, and his father had also served as Maryland's governor before him. That means two generations of the same family governed the state from the very same building.
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