Upton Scott House, Annapolis

Upton Scott House is a brick home built in 1762 for Dr. Upton Scott, a physician who practiced during the colonial period. He later helped establish the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, one of the oldest state medical societies in the United States. The house reflects the life of a professional living in a busy port community before the American Revolution.

The house was built in the Georgian style, which was common in the eighteenth century. It has a balanced front design and rises two and a half stories. Inside, a central hallway divides the rooms on each side, a layout often used in houses of that time. Some rooms were used for daily family life, while others likely served as spaces where Dr. Scott met and treated patients, since doctors often worked from their homes.

The property once included a garden where Scott likely grew medicinal plants for treatments. Herbs were commonly used in eighteenth-century medicine, and doctors often prepared remedies themselves. Today the house helps visitors understand how a physician lived and worked in the colonial period.