The head of Phillips Seafood lives in this nearly 20,000-square-foot home on 22 acres overlooking the Severn River in Annapolis. Photograph via Google Earth.
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Stephen and Maxine Phillips
$7.9 million, Annapolis
Stephen Phillips’s Georgian Revival home sits on 22 acres and has a gorgeous view of the Severn River, which empties into the Chesapeake Bay—the body of water that launched his family’s fortune. Phillips is grandson of Augustus E. Phillips, who founded Phillips Seafood on Hoopers Island in 1914. Today the company is the world’s largest processor of crabmeat, with plants in Asia and Latin America, and Stephen Phillips is its CEO.
Built in the 1920s, the house stood empty for 30 years before Phillips bought it for $2.5 million in 2002. After six years of restoration, the 19,600-square-foot home is now filled with antiques and artifacts—teak columns, Indian limestone, ebonized armoires—collected on his frequent trips to Asia.
