Maryland State House
The Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland is home to the Maryland General Assembly, the Parliament of the State.
The house dates from the years 1772 to 1779 and is the oldest continuously used State House in the USA. Maryland State House served 26 November 1783 to 3 June in 1784 as the seat of the Continental Congress. In it, George Washington, signed on December 23, 1783 recovered after the Revolutionary War 's resignation as commander of the Continental Army, and the Continental Congress ratified here on January 14, 1784 Treaty of Paris, which ended the War of Independence of the United States.
The building, the third State House at this point, was designed by Joseph Horatio Anderson. He also designed the wooden dome, the U.S., the largest wooden dome without nails and is topped by a landscaped by Benjamin Franklin lightning rod. Researchers believe that Anderson designed the dome on the model of the Karlsruhe castle tower.
On December 19, 1960 Maryland State House was recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
In 2000, the dome of the Maryland Statehouse appear on the State Quarter of the State of Maryland.