Star Spangled Banner Flag Hse

The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House is a historic home and museum. Mrs. Pickersgill was an American patriot and a Baltimore citizen. She sewed the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that flew over Baltimore harbor after the Battle of Baltimore and inspired a young man named Francis Scott Key to write the American national anthem in honor of her flag. Now, her home is a National Historic Landmark.

Everyone remembers Betsy Ross and the first American flag. Baltimoreans, however, recall Mary Young Pickersgill who stitched the 15-star flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner." The flag is now part of the Smithsonian, but Pickersgill's 1793 house, open during guided tours 7 times a day, has period...

This historic house from the 18th Century is the place that Mary Pickersgill sewed the flag that would become the Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812. The flag flew over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore, and when a poet named Francis Scott Key saw the flag still flying proudly after the battle, he was inspired to write the poem that would become the American National Anthem....

The Flag House And Star-Spangled Banner Museum

Home of Mary Pickersgill, the woman who sewed a U.S. flag during the War of 1812, inspiring the famous Francis Scott Key poem that became the American national anthem.