Hebrew Orphan Asylum

By Eli Pousson

The Hebrew Orphan Asylum appears like a grand castle on a hill with rows Victorian Romanesque arched windows and turrets at every corner. The unique design is a credit to the architectural partnership鈥�

James M. Deems Music School: A Local Composer at 426 W. Baltimore Street

By Elizabeth Pente & Theresa Donnelly

Spinning wheel manufacturers, cigar makers, tailors, hat makers, multiple banks, and a music school all occupied this site鈥攐ften at the same time鈥攇oing back to the early nineteenth century. During the鈥�

A.S. Abell Building

By Tarin Rudloff & Theresa Donnelly

Erected in 1879 as an investment property for Arunah Shepherdson Abell, founder of The Baltimore Sun, the Abell Building was designed by famed Baltimore architect George Frederick鈥攁rchitect for鈥�

Stewart's

By Theresa Donnelly

When Samuel Posner moved his successful dry goods business to the corner of Lexington and Howard, architect Charles E. Cassell's gorgeous and ornate white Renaissance Revival building鈥攃omplete with鈥�

Pascault Row

By David Thomas & Theresa Donnelly

In 1819, wealthy French merchant Louis Pascault, the Marquis de Poleon, constructed a row of eight houses on Lexington Street that now remain as the one of the earliest examples of the Baltimore鈥�

John Jacob Abel at 1604 Bolton Street: First Professor of Pharmacology in the United States

By Eli Pousson

Born near Cleveland, Ohio, in 1857, John Jacob Abel received a Ph.B. (Bachelor of Philosophy) from the University of Michigan in 1883 and his M.D. from Strasbourg in 1888. In 1893, after further鈥�

Francis Scott Key Monument

By Johns Hopkins

The Key Monument on Eutaw Place is a grand reminder of how Baltimoreans have kept the memory of the Battle of Baltimore and the War of 1812 alive over two hundred years. Francis Scott Key was a鈥�

Woodrow Wilson at 1210 Eutaw Place

By The Explore 91视频 team

Woodrow Wilson came to this house as a Ph.D. candidate at the Johns Hopkins University. From Eutaw Place he went on to become president of Princeton University, the governor of New Jersey and鈥�

Howard Atwood Kelly at 1408 Eutaw Place: Home of the "Wizard of the Operating Room"

By Eli Pousson

Born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1858, Howard Atwood Kelly attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1877 and his M.D. in 1882. In 1889, he became the first鈥�

Florence Rena Sabin at 1325 Park Avenue: First Female Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

By Eli Pousson

Born in Central City, Colorado, on November 9, 1871, Florence Rena Sabin, M.D. (1871-1953) was the youngest daughter of a mining engineer. After her mother's death from sepsis, Florence and her鈥�

Meyerhoff House: Former Maryland Women's Hospital now Student Dormitory

By Eli Pousson

The Maryland Women's Hospital, now known as the Robert and Jany Meyerhoff House for the Maryland Institute College of Art, was a pioneering medical institution in the late nineteenth century that鈥�

Eutaw Place Temple

By Eli Pousson

An icon on Eutaw Place, the former Temple Oheb Shalom is a reminder of the vibrant Jewish community that thrived in the late nineteenth century in what were then Baltimore's expanding northwest鈥�

1311 Bolton Street

By Eli Pousson

While 1311 Bolton Street is best known today as the former location for the Bolton Street Synagogue, the story of this handsome stone building begins back in 1875 as the Reformed Episcopal Church of鈥�

William H. Howell, Ph.D. at 232 West Lanvale Street

By Eli Pousson

232 West Lanvale has a neat appearance that belies its age as the oldest house in Bolton Hill. Amazingly, it reportedly looks almost exactly the same today as it did when built in 1848. Originally鈥�

John Street Park

By Eli Pousson

For such a small park, this green block on John Street has had a large impact on the history of Bolton Hill. In the early 1950s, a group of local residents organized to establish the park, one of the鈥�

Baltimore Bargain House: Wholesale History at the Nancy S. Grasmick Building

By Johanna Schein & Theresa Donnelly

One of the largest businesses on the West Side in the early twentieth century the Baltimore Bargain House鈥攁 mail-order wholesale business that employed over a thousand people and earned profits in the鈥�

Read's Drug Store

By Eli Pousson

Though the Baltimore Sun heralded the structure at the southeast corner of Howard and Lexington as an Art Deco design icon from the time of its construction in 1934, this building's role as an early鈥�

Hutzler's

By Theresa Donnelly & Sydney Jenkins

"If you wanted the good stuff, you went to Hutzler's," said Governor William Donald Schaefer and for generations of Baltimoreans, Hutzler's represented the height of downtown shopping, simply the鈥�

Schuler School of Fine Arts: Hans Schuler's Home and Studio

By Nathan Dennies

Baltimore is a city known for its sculptures. John Quincy Adams famously toasted "Baltimore鈥攖he monumental city" during a visit in 1823. The moniker is well deserved. Baltimore possess the first鈥�

Congress Hotel

By Emma Marston & Theresa Donnelly

Known originally as the Hotel Kernan, the Congress Hotel was built in 1903 by James L. Kernan. Kernan was a savvy businessman who sought to capitalize on the ways in which immigration had influenced鈥�

Hackerman House: Former Thomas-Jencks-Gladding House now part of the Walters Art Museum

By The Explore 91视频 team

Built around 1848 for Dr. John Hanson Thomas, the great-grandson of John Hanson, President of the Continental Congress, The Hackerman House represented the height of elegance and convenience in the鈥�

Mount Vernon Club

By The Explore 91视频 team

Built around 1842, the Mount Vernon Club is one of the oldest homes on Mount Vernon Place.

President Street Station: Railroad relic with a Civil War history

By Eli Pousson

On April 19, 1861, just one week after the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces marked the beginning of the Civil War, a train carrying Union volunteers with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment鈥�

Five and Dimes on Lexington Street: McCrory's, Kirby-Woolworth, and Schulte United

By Theresa Donnelly

In contrast to the high-end shopping at Stewart's or Hochschild-Kohn's on Howard Street, West Lexington Street offered goods of all kinds at affordable prices thanks to a row of five-and-tens from鈥�

Bromo Seltzer Tower

By Theresa Donnelly

While few remember the slogan of the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Company鈥�"If you keep late hours for Society's sake Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache"鈥攖he iconic Bromo-Seltzer Tower has been a Baltimore鈥�

Green Mount Cemetery

By Nathan Dennies

Officially dedicated on July 13, 1839 and born out of the garden cemetery movement, Green Mount Cemetery is one of the first garden cemeteries created in the United States. After seeing the beautiful鈥�

Copycat Building

By The Explore 91视频 team

For over twenty years, the Copycat - named for the roof top billboard of the Copycat printing company - has offered studio space and living space for countless artists, musicians, and performers. The鈥�

Peale Museum

By Johns Hopkins

On August 15, 1814, almost exactly one month before the Battle of Baltimore and the bombing of Ft. McHenry in the War of 1812, Rembrandt Peale opened "Peale's Baltimore Museum and Gallery of鈥�

Edgar Allan Poe House

By Ryan Artes

Edgar Allan Poe, writer, poet, inventor of detective fiction, is probably most famous for his poem 鈥淭he Raven.鈥� He spent time in Baltimore off and on through his entire life. Though born in Boston, he鈥�

Carrollton Viaduct: 1829 Railroad Bridge Named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton

By Gwynns Falls Trail Council

On July 4, 1828, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence and a director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, laid the cornerstone for the Carrollton鈥�