Jennings House

Jennings House, located in Annapolis, Maryland, was the residence of the Governors of Maryland from 1777 until 1870, when it was replaced by Government House. The building was sold to the United States Naval Academy in 1869 for $25,000. It was demolished in 1901.

Governor George Howard, son of Governor John Eager Howard, was born in Jennings House in 1789.

Famous quotes containing the words jennings and/or house:

    “Do they know they’re old,
    These two who are my father and my mother
    Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?”
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)

    “For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars “Well,” he would say, “if we blow ourselves up, there’s plenty more where we came from!””
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)