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U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD
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Significance: One of the major components of Ernest Flagg's grandiose plan for the Naval Academy. The chapel is a large and imposing exercise in the beaux-arts style. Its copper clad dome dominates the grounds of the Academy and is one of the dominant features of the Annapolis townscape.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132
Survey number: HABS MD-329-1
Building/structure dates: 1904-1908
Building/structure dates: 1911 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1929 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1939 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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