Cannonball House (Saint Michaels, Maryland)

The Cannonball House in Saint Michaels, Maryland, United States, is a historic house built in the early 19th century. The Federal style house is a side-hall double-parlor design on a corner lot, built for shipbuilder William Merchant.[2] It is historically notable for an 1813 event in the War of 1812 in which the British fleet bombarded Saint Michaels, leaving a cannonball embedded in the house.

Cannonball House
LocationSt. Michaels, Maryland
Coordinates38°47′3″N 76°13′22″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1810 (1810)
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No.80001839[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 3, 1980

Cannonball House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

This is the actual cannonball fired into the Cannonball House, St. Michaels, MD

==References==

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Cynthia B. Ludlow and Ellen Coxe (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cannonball House" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.


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