2025 Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage

Thank you so much for joining us for the Southern Anne Arundel House and Garden Tour! Stay tuned to find out how much money you raised for our Learning Pier project!

Join us on Saturday, May 10, 2025 (Mother's Day weekend) to tour 11 homes and gardens of architectural and/or historical significance, including waterfront properties and properties that participate in sustainable landscape practices.

Sites and Important Information

• Tickets can be purchased for $45 with cash at 3 locations only: Woodlawn History Center, Captain Avery Museum, and Tacaro Estate. Credit Cards may be used via a QR code at every site.
• When you arrive at each site, there will be a check-in table where you present your ticket. You will receive your tour booklet and a tour pass to present at each site's check-in table.
• You may begin the tour at any site.

Site 1. Woodlawn History Center, 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater (Parking on site)

     When you enter the SERC campus, pass the brick security kiosk. The Woodlawn History Center is the first house on your left. Park in the parking lot up the driveway on your left.

Site 2. Obligation Farm, Harwood (Parking on site)

Site 3. Etowah, Harwood (Parking on site)

Site 4. Larkin's Hundred, Edgewater (Parking on site)

For Sites 5-9 you must park at the Lula G. Scott Community Center (6243 Shady Side Road). You will then take a shuttle to one of 2 routes: one to Site 5 (Silverwater) and one to Site 6 (Captain Avery Museum). From Captain Avery Museum, you can walk to Sites 7, 8, and 9. There will be a car service between the Museum and Sites 7, 8, and 9 for those with very limited mobility.

Site 5. Silverwater -- Site 6. Captain Avery Museum -- Site 7. Percy Smith House, Shady Side -- Site 8. The Grove, Shady Side -- Site 9. Lenz Home, Shady Side

Site 10. Nirvana, Churchton (Street parking)

Site 11. Tacaro Estate, 6220 Town Point Road, Tracys Landing (Parking off site)

A full description of all participating counties and their tours, with photographs, is now available at www.mhgp.org.

As the host, Captain Avery Museum will be able to use the proceeds from this tour for a special project. Stay tuned for details on that project!

 A delicious box lunch from St. Thomas Parish, including a drink and dessert, will be available at Captain Avery Museum between 11:00 am and 2:30 pm.