Brewers Exchange

By Bill Carroll & Theresa Donnelly

The Brewers Exchange, a gorgeous, three story terra cotta Renaissance Revival building designed by noted local architect Joseph Evans Sperry (who designed the Bromo Seltzer Tower, as well as many鈥�

Penn Station: A Beaux-Arts Landmark by Architect Kenneth Mackenzie Murchison

By The Explore 91视频 team

Penn Station is a unique combination of a classic Beaux-Arts architectural design from architect Kenneth Mackenzie Murchison and a functional, adaptable train station that serves as the eighth busiest鈥�

Baltimore Equitable Society

By Theresa Donnelly

First established in 1847 by a group of prominent businessmen, the Eutaw Savings Bank spent its first decade operating out of the Eutaw House Hotel located on the same site as the Hippodrome Theater.鈥�

Baltimore City Hall

By Jack Breihan

Although it imitates the arrangement of the U.S. Capitol with a central dome and symmetrical wings, the Baltimore City Hall is covered in French architectural elements, including banded rustication,鈥�

Preston Gardens

By The Explore 91视频 team

Built between 1914 and 1919, Preston Gardens is a linear park along Saint Paul Street. Few people know that Preston Gardens was once the site of a thriving black community up through the early鈥�

Maryland Club

By Eli Pousson

First established in 1857, the Maryland Club started in a residence designed by Robert Mills on the northeast corner of Franklin and Cathedral streets and many of the Club's members lived in the area鈥�

Roland Park Apartments

By Eli Pousson

Designed by architect Edward L. Palmer, Jr. in 1925, the handsome Roland Park Apartments, now known as the Roland Park Condominium, is a significant example of Beaux Arts architecture in North鈥�

Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church

By Eli Pousson

Dedicated on December 4, 1870, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church stands as a monument both to George Brown, whose wife Isabella McLanahan Brown supported the construction of the church in his memory,鈥�

Public School No. 103

By The Explore 91视频 team

Built in 1877, this historic school on Division Street originally served only white students until 1910 when the building was first used for black students from Public School No. 112. In March 1911,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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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.

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�