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Annapolis, Town Plan, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD
Summary
1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
Significance: In 1695 Francis Nicholson, Governor of Maryland, conceived an idealized Baroque city plan of streets radiating from two circles to be superimposed on the existing colonial town grid of Annapolis. The Nicholson Plan exists today in somewhat modified form. The circles are State and Church Circles, and have evolved from pure circles to irregular ovoids. Elements like Bloomsbury Square and the garden southeast of State Circle (known in 1743 as Public Circle) were never fully realized and streets like Cornhill were added.
Survey number: HABS MD-1076
Building/structure dates: 1695 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Nicholson, Francis
Capen, Judith, faculty sponsor
University of Maryland, College Park, sponsor
Cary, Brian, transmitter
Sankowski, Jennifer C, delineator
Source
Library of Congress
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
