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Item Title
U.S. Naval Academy, Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD
LocationAcademy Chapel,
Annapolis, MD
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS MD-329-1
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-132).
Building/structure dates:
1904
Building/structure dates:
1911 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1929 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1939 subsequent work
National Register Number: 66000386
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.
Subjects
Latin Cross BuildingsMilitary EducationNavies
Related Names
Flagg, Ernest
Dewey, Adm. George
Jones, John Paul
Houdon, Jean-Antoine
Salieres, Sylvan
Cret, Paul Philippe
Lowe, John T., Photographer
Hnedak, D.. John, Historian
Davis, Janet, Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. NORTHEAST FRONT AND NORTHWEST SIDE
2. NORTHEAST FRONT
3. SOUTHEAST SIDE AND SOUTHWEST REAR
4. SOUTHEAST SIDE
5. DETAIL OF WINDOW SOUTHEAST SIDE
6. NAVE, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
7. NORTHEASTERN END OF NAVE
8. REINFORCED CONCRETE WORK BETWEEN DOMES
9. DETAIL OF REINFORCED CONCRETE WORK BETWEEN DOMES
10. VIEW OF ALTAR AND WESTERN TRANSEPT
11. DETAIL OF CARYATIDS, VIEW ABOVE ALTAR AND WESTERN TRANSEPT
12. VIEW OF WESTERN TRANSEPT
13. ALTAR
14. LOOKING DOWN AT ALTAR, WEDDING IN PROCESS
15. BASEMENT, CHAPEL
16. BASEMENT, DETAIL OF CHAPEL ALTAR
17. BASEMENT, DETAIL OF CHAPEL DOORWAY
18. CRYPT, BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN PAUL JONES, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
19. CRYPT, GENERAL VIEW OF HALLWAY, ENCIRCLING SARCOPHAGUS
20. CRYPT, SCULPTURE BY HOUDOUN OF JOHN PAUL JONES
21. CRYPT, NORTHEAST SARCOPHAGUS
22. CRYPT, NORTHWEST SARCOPHAGUS
23. CRYPT, SARCOPHAGUS
24. CRYPT, DETAIL OF SCULPTURE OF JOHN PAUL JONES
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