Buildings of Maryland : University of Virginia Press : 9780813948041 : 0813948045 : 27 Oct 2022 : "Maryland is known as "Little America" and "America in Miniature" for its geographical range, from the vast estuary of the Chesapeake Bay to its Atlantic beaches, farm-rich Piedmont Plateau, and rugged Allegheny Mountains. As one of the thirteen originalcolonies, it is renowned for eighteenth-century architecture highlighting the transfer of the building traditions of its European settlers. The capital, Annapolis, offers some of colonial America's most iconic buildings, while humbler examples chart the development of regional building types. Baltimore, the state's industrial powerhouse and architectural epicenter from the mid-nineteenth century onward, features a wide range of the row houses that defined the city, as well as commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings created by some of the period's greatest designers. Maryland has likewise been shaped by its innovative transportat