Cannonball House (Saint Michaels, Maryland)

Cannonball House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	St. Michaels, Maryland
Coordinates	38°47′3″N 76°13′22″W / 38.78417°N 76.22278°W / 38.78417; -76.22278Coordinates: 38°47′3″N 76°13′22″W / 38.78417°N 76.22278°W / 38.78417; -76.22278
Built	1810
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Federal
Governing body	Private
NRHP Reference #	80001839
Added to NRHP	December 3, 1980[1]

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.

References

External links

• Cannonball House, Talbot County, including photo dated 1980, at Maryland Historical Trust

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