. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. said house at the time of my decease, not including,however, family portraits and silver-ware; in trust, tobe held by them and their successors in perpetuity forthe objects and purposes of such Home. Mrs. Rid-out also left property in Baltimore to these trustees asan endowment for the Home. She survived her husband three years, and had nodirect heirs. In accordance with her request, she liesburied at Whitehall, her husbands family home, andby his side. 25 COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND Its later owners have not changed the Chase Housein any essentia
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. said house at the time of my decease, not including,however, family portraits and silver-ware; in trust, tobe held by them and their successors in perpetuity forthe objects and purposes of such Home. Mrs. Rid-out also left property in Baltimore to these trustees asan endowment for the Home. She survived her husband three years, and had nodirect heirs. In accordance with her request, she liesburied at Whitehall, her husbands family home, andby his side. 25 COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND Its later owners have not changed the Chase Housein any essential, preferring rather to maintain it in itsvestiture of the olden times. It contains, amongst otherminor colonial relics, a set of china bearing the Chasecoat-of-arms, an immense bedstead requiring a set ofsteps to enter it, and an eight-day clock which belongedto the bachelor Proprietary Governor Horatio Sharpe,and was kept by him at Whitehall. THE HAMMOND, OR HARWOOD,HOUSE ANNAPOLIS, MAKYLAND HAMMOND—PINKNEY—CHASE—LOCKERMAN—HARWOOD. HE Hammond House, Annapolis,Maryland, very often called theHarwood House, is on MarylandAvenue, directly opposite theChase House, just described. Amore striking contrast in exteriorthan these two buildings couldhardly be imagined, as, where the latter is high andsquare, the former is low, long and distinguished forgrace; the one a solid, single unit, the other dependingfor its architectural effect almost entirely upon one-story-and-a-half wings, which are almost the onlyexamples of semi-octagonal additions of this characterin the United States. The Chase House is notable forbreadth, simplicity, and generosity of line and mass;the Hammond House for elegance, refinement of detail,and beautiful proportion. Either one in itself would besufficient to give character to a city fortunate enoughto possess it, and that the two, so diverse in character,yet so representative of the best homes of our fathers,should be face to face affably holding conver
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