Bachelor Officers’ Quarters

The BOQ housed unmarried officers. Captains and majors lived on the second floor in their own suites with private baths and sitting rooms. Lieutenants occupied single bedrooms and shared a bathroom on the top floor. The first floor was the ...

Officers’ Quarters

1814

Report from the Fort

31 October 1820 . Major Samuel Babcock, Engineer

Quarters for officers 96 by 28 feet and two stories high built in 1814.

Report from the Fort

16 October 1844 . Major Brevet C.W. Thomas

The ...

Fort Frederick Officers’ Quarters

A Ghost in the Ground.

Before you is the foundation of “The Governor’s House,” the building that served as the officers’ quarters, ceremonial hall and storeroom for Fort Frederick. What did that building look like? We know the size and general ...