Star-Spangled Banner Museum: A touch of American history

BALTIMORE (Examiner) - The most noticeable thing about Mary Pickersgill’s house in downtown Baltimore is the way it smells.
It is old and musty. The floors creak and the walls are cracking. The doors and windows look as if they have had hundreds of coats of paint — probably because they have.
Before the house was purchased by the City of Baltimore and opened as a public museum, it was home to a pharmacy, shoe repair shop and Italian grocery as well as Pickersgill’s flag-making business, said Jill Peters, a tour guide at The Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum. Continued.