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U.S. Naval Academy, McDonough Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

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Significance: MacDonough and Dahlgren Halls are virtually identical buildings that flank Bancroft Hall. Although their uses have been changed from the original intent, both buildings remain largely intact. They were among the first of Ernest Flagg's buildings to be completed and, unlike several others in his Beaux-Arts complex, were built almost exactly as he had envisioned.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132

Survey number: HABS MD-329-3

Building/structure dates: 1898-1903

Building/structure dates: 1905-1906 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1940s Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000386

The United States Naval Academy is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland, United States established in 1845 under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in Philadelphia, that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. The 338-acre campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay 33 miles east of Washington, D.C. and 26 miles southeast of Baltimore. The entire campus is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments.

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1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Flagg, Ernest
P.S. Carlin & Company
McCloskey & Company
Penn Bridge Company
McDonough, Thomas
Lowe, John T., photographer
Hnedak, John, historian
Davis, Janet, historian
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United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy established in 1845
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West Annapolis ,  38.97845, -76.49218
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Library of Congress
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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

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