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U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

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Summary

Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the grounds of the Academy and is one of the dominant features of the Annapolis townscape.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132

Survey number: HABS MD-329-1

Building/structure dates: 1904-1908

Building/structure dates: 1911 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1929 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1939 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000386

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date_range

Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Flagg, Ernest
Dewey, George
Jones, John Paul
Houdon, Jean-Antoine
Salieres, Sylvan
Cret, Paul Philippe
Noel Construction Company
Commerce Iron Works
Andrews, D M
Irwin & Leighton
Longman, Evelyn Beatrice
Lowe, John T., photographer
Hnedak, John, historian
Davis, Janet, historian
place

Location

West Annapolis ,  38.97845, -76.49218
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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