Captain Salem Avery House Museum
Captain Salem Avery House Museum is a museum in Maryland, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Good Hope Hill stands 84 m to the west, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Captain Salem Avery House Waterfront, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Roots and Tides Byway passes 2.4 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Captain Avery Museum is a historic home and museum at Shady Side, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story frame building, located on a 0.75-acre (3,000 m2) rectangular lot. The house overlooks the West River and Chesapeake Bay. The two-story historic structure originally was the residence of the Chesapeake Bay waterman, Capt. Salem Avery, and was constructed about 1860. It was expanded in the nineteenth century and further expanded in the 1920s by the National Masonic Fishing and Country Club. The property consists of the main house with additions, three sheds formerly used as bath houses, and a modern boathouse built in 1993 that features the Edna Florence, a locally-built 1937 Chesapeake Bay deadrise workboat. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The museum, originally called the Captain Salem Avery House Museum, was founded in 1984 by the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society as a local history museum. The names of the Society and the museum were changed in 2015. Currently, the Captain Avery Museum is owned and operated by a nonprofit organization, Captain Avery Museum, Inc.
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Dates from 1984.
Wikidata Q5036470, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1859
What to expect
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Roots and Tides Byway
- 11.9 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
- 13.8 mi off the Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway, National
- 21.1 mi off the Booth's Escape
Overlooks nearby
- Rappe's Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Captain Salem Avery House Waterfront: 0.0 mi
- Shady Side Wharf: 0.4 mi
- Shady Cove Natural Area: 0.6 mi
- Snug Harbor Park: 0.7 mi
- Snug Harbor Natural Area: 0.7 mi
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Conservation Easement: 6.3 mi
- Bay Ridge Trust: 7.1 mi
- Paca Gardens: 9.1 mi
- Jug Bay Nature Preserve at Waysons Corner: 10.2 mi
- Glendening Nature Preserve: 11.0 mi
- Lafayette's Encampment: 8.5 mi
- Guardians of the First Amendment Memorial: 8.9 mi
- Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley Memorial: 9.0 mi
- USS Maryland Memorial & Bell: 9.0 mi
- Baron Johann DeKalb: 9.0 mi
- Galesville Heritage Museum: 1.7 mi
- Annapolis Maritime Museum: 8.5 mi
- Victualling Warehouse Maritime Museum: 8.9 mi
- Banneker-Douglass Museum of Afro-American Life and History: 8.9 mi
- Banneker-Douglass Museum: 8.9 mi
- former Confederate Soldier Benjamin Welch Owens: 8.4 mi
- Beach On My Mind: 10.0 mi
- Cecil: 10.0 mi
- Tadpole: 10.0 mi
- Pearl: 10.0 mi
- Rainwater Garden: 9.2 mi
- Tawe's Garden: 9.4 mi
- Garden of Queen Anne: 13.4 mi
- The Island at Piney Orchard: 17.5 mi
- Community Gardens: 17.8 mi
- Bare Neck Shore: 1.4 mi
- Triton Beach: 2.4 mi
- Mayo Beach: 3.2 mi
- Selby Beach: 4.0 mi
- Wild Rose Shores: 7.0 mi
- Historic London Town and Gardens: 6.5 mi
- M60: 9.5 mi
- F-14A Tomcat: 9.6 mi
- EA-6B Growler: 9.6 mi
- F-4A Phantom II: 9.6 mi
- Owings Cliffs: 7.6 mi
- Fairhaven Cliffs: 7.9 mi
- Wiona Cliffs: 12.6 mi
- Roosevelt Cliffs: 14.3 mi
- Roosevelt Cliffs: 14.8 mi
- Patuxent Park Pavillion: 12.6 mi
- Picnic Area 14: 15.5 mi
- Picnic Area 13: 15.5 mi
- Picnic Area 10: 15.5 mi
- Picnic Area 12: 15.5 mi
- Mount Misery: 14.5 mi
- Eagle Hill: 16.6 mi
- Lowndes Hill: 23.3 mi
- Good Hope Hill: 24.3 mi
- Hickey Hill: 24.3 mi
- Thomas Point Shoal Light: 5.3 mi
- Hawkins Point Light: 24.8 mi
- Wilson: 9.9 mi
- Indian Springs: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Captain Salem Avery House Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Hope Hill | W 273° | 84 m | 24.3 mi |
| Mount Misery | N 354° | 43 m | 14.5 mi |
| Eagle Hill | N 5° | 43 m | 16.6 mi |
| Hickey Hill | W 280° | 39 m | 24.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:55 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:06 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Annapolis US Naval Academy ASO, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 05001443OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Avery, Capt. Salem, House, reference 05001443, listed 12/21/05.
OpenStreetMap element way/424600823
Day trips start here
- Chesapeake Beach · 11 mi
- Kent Island · 13 mi
- Upper Marlboro · 13 mi
- Bowie · 15 mi
- Severna Park · 16 mi
- St. Michaels · 16 mi
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