The former site of Jennings House is now on the current campus of the nearby United States Naval Academy (established in Annapolis in 1845), which purchased the mansion in 1869 for $20,000 (20 thousand dollars).

The Academy used the old Jennings House residence for a number of purposes for the next three decades, before finally razing it in 1901, making room for its expanded waterfront campus built on reclaimed landfill acreage.

[3] Originally designed by Andrews, a former Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

It was renovated 60 years later in a 1935–1936 major make-over during the Great Depression and the happier event of the state's 300th Anniversary / Terrcentenary celebration.

The architects then went back to Maryland and Annapolis historical roots to restore the official residence of the Governor to completely alter and go to a different Georgian / Colonial Revival and Federal of compatible styles of architecture to match the general style of the nearby historic red brick and unique / distinctive white wooden dome of the then 157 year old State House, across State Circle, and designed / constructed in the 1770s–1780s period and similar to much of surrounding colonial era Annapolis historic district buildings.