The future is now for a 253-year-old Annapolis landmark dedicated to women

The Chase-Lloyd House is the pinnacle of Colonial architecture in Annapolis, the three-story Georgian home perfecting the design ideals visible across the city’s better-known masterpieces. And despite its origin as a symbol of political power in Maryland’s state capital, the house has always been something unique — a woman’s home. An enslaved housekeeper used it to gain freedom for her family. Maryland’s richest woman bought it to raise her three orphaned nieces, and the last survivor of those sisters dedicated it as a refuge for women with no place else to go.