Fire Department Photo, W. Groversman 22, Maryland Avenue,
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County The Chase-Lloyd House is a full
three-story brick structure over high basement, seven bays wide
by four deep, with a broad low hip-on-hip roof and two massive
interior chimneys, and covered by a modern slate roof. The high
walls, 18 inches thick, are laid in Flemish bond and adorned by
belt courses of rubbed brick at the cornice. The axial line of
the east (front) elevation is emphasized by the tall, narrow,
three-bay wide, projecting central pavilion, with its doorway,
arched window on the third floor, and crowning pediment with a
small bullseye window. The modillion cornice which surrounds the
building is repeated as a raking cornice in the pediment.
Windows are 6/6 on the first two floors and 6/3 on the third.
Particularly noteworthy is the entrance doorway, a three-part
composition rarely used in Georgian houses before the
Revolution. The door, topped by a traceried fanlight, is
separated from the flanking, wide, rect