Two hundred years ago they called Annapolis Harbor’s infamous dockside neighborhood Hell’s Point. Well, yesterday’s hell is a gentrified haven today, with narrow, brick-paved streets, shade trees, and houses with landmark plaques. Two at the bottom of Prince George Street have been converted into a rambling inn by ex-Illinoisans Cary and Ayrol Ann Gibson. The Patterson dwelling, built between 1760 and 1786, is
a brick Georgian town house with dormer windows. Next door, the red stucco Berman home dates from the last century. The Gibsons combed the towns along the Intra-coastal Waterway for an-tiques, yet the decoration of these 18th-and 19th-century neighbors is extremely simple, a little like that of a small-town hotel. There’s also the Lauer House, an annex built a few years ago.
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