History of the State House Grounds by Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, State Archivist  Transcription

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1735

• "Monies paid to Patrick Creagh for building the office."  (Radoff, Buildings of the State of Maryland in Annapolis, 66)

• 19 March - Payments to Patrick Creagh end, thus indicating that the building was finished.
• Commissioners move into the building

• Money paid to Patrick Creagh for work done to the office.

• 24 November - 300 pounds appropriated for repairs "of the Council House, Repository & paper Currency Office"

• Resolution 85 of the General Assembly authorizes extensive repairs to the Treasury, to be made the following year.

• 24 May - $312.20  to Thomas N. Pindle for repairing and Shingling the Treasury Office
• 13 July - $3.23 to Solomon Phillips for work done under Resolution 85, 1849
• 1 August - $30.40 to W.M. Hohne for painting Roof and Cornish of thr Treasury
• 17 August - $37.57 to P.C. Clayton for work done and materials furnished for plasteriing and repairing the Treasury
• 2 October - $53.61 to E.I. Stansbury for material furnished the State for painting and repairing the Treaurry
• 2 October - $22.00 to W.M. Hohne for painting the Treasury
• 31 October - $12.00 to P.C. Clayton for pointing the walls of the Treasury and furnishing material for the same

• Further repair to the building and "rendering the same, and the vault therein, fireproof" authorized by the General Assembly (Chapter 80, Acts of 1852).

• Governor Lane authorizes a complete rehabilitation and restoration under the direction of the State Department of Public Improvements.
• Henry Powell Hopkins and Laurence Hall Fowler of Baltimore are chosen for the restoration of the Treasury.  It was the first complete restoration of a public building undertaken by the State of Maryland.  Total cost, including architects' fees and landscaping was $53,000.

• September - "Restoration of the Old Treasury Building," by Henry Powell Hopkins and Laurence Hall Fowler, Associate Architects.  Bound report by the architects on the restoration of the Old Treasury Building.  Includes documentary black and white photographs of the building conditions, preliminary blueprints, and suggestions for the proposed renovations.  (MSA SC 293)
• Pages 1-15.
• Pages 16-30.
• Pages 31-45.
• Pages 46-54.

• 4 January - Ceremonial rededication of the restored Treasury held before a joint session of the General Assembly

• 31 May - "Volume II of the Restoration of the Old Senate Chamber," by Henry Powell Hopkins and Laurence Hall Fowler, Associate Architects.  Includes black and white detail photographs of work in progress and a written description of each photograph.  Book also includes three pictures of the building after the completed renovations.  (MSA SC 293)
• Pages 1-15.
• Pages 16-30.
• Pages 31-46.

IMAGES
 
 

	Photograph of the Old Treasury Building, from a stereocard. pre-1880 George Forbes Collection MSA SC 182-02-0093
	Photograph of the Old Treasury Building, with the Land Office in the back.  Circa 1900.  (Not sure of date, but it's pretty modern and the LO was razed in 1906) George Forbes Collection MSA SC 182-02-0094
	Stereograph image of the Land Office, 1859-1906.  MSA SC 2246-3 (Note man in the window, iron fencings in background)

NOTES

Old Treasury: Built 1735-1737, major repairs in 1849, total rehabilitation and restoration in 1949-1950 by the Department of Public Improvement

Land Office: Built as an archive in 1859 and razed in 1906.  Built to house Comptroller, Chancery Record Keeper and Land Officer.  Known as Comptroller's Office.  1900: act passed for construction of Court of Appeals Building and the removal of the Land Office.  Land Officer moves into the new building in 1904.