Charles Carroll House

Annapolis Landscape Architects (ALA) teamed with Citadel DCA and EHT Traceries, Inc. on the “Treatment, Preservation, and Hazard Mitigation Plan” for the Charles Carroll House, located in Annapolis, Maryland.

ALA provided historic landscape analysis and mapping including the site morphology as well as documentation of periods of significance and key view sheds. A Preservation Treatment Plan was provided to guide the evolution of the garden set within the context of its history. The preservation of key character-defining features and the sculpted landform terraces and seawall built by enslaved people are explored in the study with site-specific recommendations and associated cost estimates. The visitors’ programming is set within a broad restoration and preservation context.

 A four-acre site overlooking Spa Creek, the Carroll House ranks among the most architecturally and historically significant landmarks in the Colonial Annapolis Historic District. The Charles Carroll House is an internationally significant building and cultural landscape. The site’s historical significance is as the home of Charles Carroll, the settler and first Attorney General of Maryland; his son, Charles Carroll of Annapolis; and his son, Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Faced with both persecution and restrictions for his faith, Charles Carroll of Carrollton secured his family’s vision of personal, political, and religious freedom for all citizens when he became the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

This cultural landscape spans over 300 years as the site of the home of three generations of the Carroll family and has belonged to the Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province for the last 150 years.