Ogle Hall is an historic building in
Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maryland and the county seat of, and only incorporated city in, Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east o ...
, Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Inventory #AA-530.
It is also known as the
United States Naval Academy
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Alumni House.
[
It is located at 247 King George Street and was built between 1739 and 1742 for Dr. William Stephenson.][ It changed hands and in 1747, Daniel Cheston leased the property to Provincial ]Governor of Maryland
The Governor of the State of Maryland is the head of government of Maryland, and is the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard units. The Governor is the highest-ranking official in the state and has a broad range of appointive powers ...
, Samuel Ogle
Samuel Ogle (c. 1694 – 3 May 1752) was the 16th, 18th and 20th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732, 1733 to 1742, and 1746/1747 to 1752.
Background
The Ogle family was quite prominent for many centuries in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ...
, giving the building its namesake.[ Ogle maintained two properties in the Province, the other being the Belair Mansion in nearby ]Collington, Maryland
Collington is a now defunct settlement in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, dating from colonial times. Collington has been subsumed by the city of Bowie.
Geography
Collington is located at 38°58'6" North, 76°45'35" West (38.9684 ...
.Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maryland and the county seat of, and only incorporated city in, Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east o ...
,Watson, Winslow Marston. ''In Memoriam: Benjamin Ogle Tayloe.'' Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., 1872.
/ref> to Anne Ogle Tayloe, daughter to Benjamin Ogle
Benjamin Ogle (January 27, 1749 – July 7, 1809) was the ninth Governor of Maryland from 1798 to 1801.
Early life
The Ogle family was quite prominent for many centuries in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, dating from the medieva ...
and wife of John Tayloe III
John Tayloe III (September 2, 1770March 23, 1828), of Richmond County, Virginia, was a planter, politician, businessman, and tidewater gentry scion. He was prominent in elite social circles. A highly successful planter and thoroughbred horse b ...
of The Octagon House
The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. After the British destroyed the White House during the War of 1812, the house ...
in the Federal CIty of Washington
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* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
, whose family seat resided on the Northern Neck
The Northern Neck is the northernmost of three peninsulas (traditionally called "necks" in Virginia) on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the Virginia, Commonwealth of Virginia (along with the Middle Peninsula and the Virginia Peninsula ...
of Virginia
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, the colonial estate built by his father-John Tayloe II
Colonel John Tayloe II (28 May 172118 April 1779) was a planter and politician, among the richest planters in colonial Virginia. He served in public office including the Virginia Governor's Council, also known as the Virginia Council of State.
...
-Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his ...
.
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Houses in Annapolis, Maryland