Maynard-Burgess House 163 Duke of Gloucester, Annapolis This two-story frame house is significant because it was been under exclusive African American ownership and occupation from about 1840 to 1990. The structure is believed to have been moved to the present site between 1840 and 1847 when John Maynard purchased the house from the previous wealthy white landowner. After his death in 1874, his family operated a boardinghouse there until 1915, when the Willis Burgess family, African Americans who earlier had been boarders, began an occupancy which lasted until 1990. Since the fall of 1990, the Maynard-Burgess House has been the site of extensive archaeological excavations conducted by "Archaeology in Annapolis," a collaborative project between the University of Maryland, College Park and the Historic Annapolis Foundation. Thousands of artifacts were found in archaeological digs at the site. Historic Annapolis Foundation hopes to renovate the house and operate it as a museum of African American life.