Real Estate
Seafood Millionaire’s Mansion Has Secret Passages and a Church
A 26,000-square-foot historic complex in Annapolis, Md., returns to the market for $25 million.
A view of the hilltop friary.
Photographer: Sean Shanahan
On a rainy April day in 2002, Maxine Davis Phillips and Steve Phillips visited an abandoned friary on a 23-acre hillside in Annapolis, Md.
“The listing said ‘26 bedrooms,’ and I was like: We have six kids, not 26, and most have married and moved away already,” she recalls. Her then-fiancee suggested they swing by the property, anyway. Perhaps, he offered, they could tear down the house and build a lovely new one.