Christ Church (301 South Talbot Street)

Christ Episcopal Church, on your left, is at least the third edifice built for the Saint Michaels Parish that gave the town its name. The first, a wood frame structure, was constructed before 1709. The second, a brick church, was built about 1814. The present Victorian Gothic church was designed by Baltimore architect Henry Congdon and completed in 1878, just a few years after the brick Saint Luke’s Methodist Church was built on the opposite side of Talbot Street. The contrasting exterior materials from the rough-faced granite to the half-timber, brick, and patterned slate, add interest to the form of the church, with its prominent bell tower with a chamfered pyramidal spire.

Turn right on Green St.

As you proceed up Green Street, Muskrat Park is on your right. Today this is fast land, but 150 years ago this was a marsh where Kirby led his mule across a crude plank bridge to his nearby shipyard.

Then turn left on Locust St.