The Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc

What The Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc does

The Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Maryland in 1927 to preserve and operate the 1793 Flag House in Baltimore as a public historic house museum. The Association acts as steward of the National Historic Landmark property (owned by Baltimore City) where Mary Young Pickersgill crafted the 30' by 42' garrison flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write what became the U.S. National Anthem. The museum holds approximately 1,100 core objects and a 15,000-piece archaeological collection, with digitized holdings distributed through Digital Maryland.

The museum delivers a portfolio of products including self-guided and group tours of the historic structure, virtual learning programs for schools, downloadable educational resources, the Flag House Scholar Award essay contest, and the Mary Pickersgill Award for Women's Leadership in Business. Outreach runs through the organization's website (flaghouse.org), Facebook, Instagram, an email newsletter, and on-site special events, with an online retail shop hosted on Square.

Revenue mechanics rest on a tiered annual membership program ($70 to $1,000 across five named circles), free general admission augmented by paid ticketed events (e.g., $20/person Mary Pickersgill 250th Birthday), site rental fees, gift shop sales, and donor contributions. The museum operates Tuesday through Saturday with self-guided tours and guided tours for groups of 12+, and participates in the Time Travelers reciprocal network (300+ historical museums across 40+ states) and the Greater Baltimore History Alliance. Primary customer segments are general public and tourists, K-12 students and educators, hereditary society members (Society of the War of 1812, United Daughters of 1812), and event/private-group renters.

Name

The Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc

Legal name

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc.

Website

https://flaghouse.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1927

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that preserves and operates the 1793 Flag House in Baltimore — the National Historic Landmark where Mary Pickersgill made the Star-Spangled Banner — delivering historic tours, virtual programs, and educational resources to the general public, K-12 schools, hereditary society members, and event renters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Historic House Museum

NAICS

Museums (712110), Historical Sites (71212), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712)

akta.pro primary industry

Cultural Heritage Institutions (Archives, Historic Houses, Monuments Foundations) (THAJADAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

History Museums (THAJADAB), Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA)

Keywords

• Historic house museum
• Heritage preservation
• Educational programs
• Artifact conservation
• Museum membership

Headquarters

HQ city

Baltimore

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Association operates a National Historic Landmark historic house museum in Baltimore, Maryland, preserving the 1793 structure where Mary Young Pickersgill crafted the garrison flag that inspired the U.S. National Anthem. The museum offers self-guided and guided tours, virtual learning programs, K-12 educational resources, online collection access, site rentals, and a tiered membership program. It also runs special exhibits and community events tied to American history, the War of 1812, and Maryland's Semiquincentennial.

Product overview

The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House & Museum operates as a historic house museum offering in-person and virtual experiences centered on the 1793 structure where Mary Young Pickersgill crafted the garrison flag for Fort McHenry. The core offerings include self-guided and guided tours of the National Historic Landmark, virtual educational programs, and online collection access through Digital Maryland. Additional programs include the annual Flag House Scholar Award essay contest and Mary Pickersgill Award for Women's Leadership in Business. The museum generates revenue through individual and family memberships (with Hereditary Society tiers), site rentals, gift shop sales via Square, and educational program fees. Free educational resources include activity packets, coloring pages, and One Minute Histories documents.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Historic Flag House Tours Self-guided and guided tours of the 1793 National Historic Landmark structure where Mary Young Pickersgill crafted the Star-Spangled Banner flag, offered to visitors Tuesday through Saturday.
• Virtual Programs Remote learning opportunities including virtual tours, presentations, and information sessions for schools and educators, requested via email.
• Educational Resources Free downloadable materials including Pre-Visit and Post-Visit Activity Packets, History Coloring Packets, One Minute Histories series (covering Rebecca Young, Mary Pickersgill, Caroline Pickersgill Purdy, and Grace Wisher), and Grace Wisher Indenture analysis for K-12 teachers and students.
• Online Collections Access Digitized collections available through partnership with Digital Maryland, including the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Collection, Colonial Letters Collection, Star-Spangled Banner Replica Collection, and Pannell Family Correspondence.
• Flag House Scholar Award Annual essay contest and scholarship program for high school seniors, sponsored by the Society of the War of 1812 and Maryland State Society United States Daughters of 1812.
• Mary Pickersgill Award for Women's Leadership in Business Annual award recognizing women entrepreneurs who exemplify characteristics of entrepreneurship, courage, resourcefulness, and intelligence.
• Museum Membership Program Individual and family membership tiers ($70–$1,000/year) providing free admission, gift shop discounts, behind-the-scenes tours, event invitations, and reciprocal benefits through Time Travelers program and Greater Baltimore History Alliance.
• Site Rental Rental of the historic 1793 Flag House facility for events, corporate functions, and private gatherings.
• Online Gift Shop Square-hosted online store selling merchandise and event tickets related to the Flag House museum.

Quantifiable outcome

• One of only 23 accredited museums in Maryland out of approximately 33,000 museums nationally

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Recent moves13 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Old Sturbridge Village: Large-scale living history museum focused on early American life. Comparable as a heritage interpretation operator with similar educational programming and seasonal event monetization.
• National Museum of American History (Smithsonian): Houses the actual Star-Spangled Banner flag and dominates the National Anthem narrative at national scale. Represents the incumbent against which the Flag House's site-specific provenance must be marketed.

Direct peers

• Baltimore Museum of Industry: Another Baltimore-based history museum with a niche thematic focus (industry). Comparable in scale, free/small-admission pricing, and educational programming reach.
• Hampton National Historic Site: A National Historic Site in the Baltimore region preserving a historic estate. Comparable as a regional historic house museum site with similar visitation economics and National Park Service adjacency.
• Maryland Center for History and Culture: Maryland's primary state-level historical institution, located in Baltimore. Comparable as a Maryland-focused history museum with collections, educational programming, and similar donor/membership economics.
• Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine: The companion site to the Flag House — Fort McHenry is where the Star-Spangled Banner flag flew during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814. Together the two sites form a unified National Anthem heritage tourism offering, with Fort McHenry serving as the larger, NPS-operated counterpart.
• Betsy Ross House: Philadelphia's historic house museum dedicated to another iconic American flag maker — a near-perfect structural analog to the Flag House (single historic dwelling, female-craftswoman narrative, free/small-admission model, urban heritage tourism).
• B&O Railroad Museum: Another Baltimore-based National Historic Landmark museum (housed in a historic roundhouse). Comparable in scale, accreditation profile, and reliance on heritage tourism in the Baltimore market.
• Historic Hampton House Museum: Baltimore-area historic house museum focused on early American history. Directly comparable in scale, programming, and operational model (membership tiers, site rentals, school programs).

Regional players

• Mount Vernon Place Conservancy: Stewards a Baltimore historic district and monument — comparable as a Baltimore-based historic preservation nonprofit with overlapping audiences and donor pools.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/112849748728284
• Instagraminstagram.com/17841401087757969
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/star-spangled-banner-flag-house

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