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Elkridge V.F.D. Station One: Former Home of the "Best Homemade Fire Truck in America"

By Alan Gibson & Eli Pousson

In April 1942, less than six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a group of Elkridge residents established a new volunteer fire department. The new fire department was one of鈥�

The Brumbaugh House: "Dr. B" and the Elkridge Heritage Society

By Alan Gibson & Eli Pousson

The handsome Victorian on Elkridge鈥檚 Main Street now known as the Brumbaugh House was built around 1870 and began serving as a doctor's office in the nineteenth century. The home鈥檚 most famous鈥�

Martick's Restaurant

Martick鈥檚 Restaurant Francais on Mulberry Street is a place of fond memories where Baltimore enjoyed fine food, lively music, and art for nearly a century. The once-famous restaurant started in 1917鈥�

Interstate 395 and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard: Cal Ripken Way and the Former Harbor City Boulevard

The little-known history of Baltimore's Interstate 395 (I-395) and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Jr. Boulevard offers a reminder of the years of contentious planning efforts that ended with the鈥�

I Am an American Day Parade: Immigration and the Making of the East Baltimore Documentary Photography Project

East Baltimore's "I Am An American Day" parade is captured in a unique 1981 news program from WJZ-TV and a book of documentary photographs showing the people and places of East Baltimore in the late鈥�

Masjid Ul-Haqq: Former Home to the Nation of Islam in Baltimore

Mosque No. 6, the predecessor of the Masjid Ul-Haqq, first moved into their present building on Wilson Street around 1958. The two-story brick building had most recently housed a automotive garage but鈥�

Oakenshawe Green Space: A Former Parking Lot Turned Community Open Space

In October 1987, the members of University-Birkwood Association celebrated nearly fifteen years of work on a former parking lot turned green space on Barclay Street. Earlier that year, the small civic鈥�

John Stuban at 911 Tyson Street: Activist Founder of ACT UP Baltimore

John Stuban moved from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland in 1987 and settled in a small rowhouse on Tyson Street. That same year, a group of New York City activists founded ACT UP (AIDS Coalition鈥�

Billie Holiday Statue: Monument by James Early Reid on Pennsylvania Avenue

The Billie Holiday Monument on Pennsylvania Avenue commemorates the life and legacy of the famed "Lady Day" who was born as Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore on April 7, 1915. Billie Holiday's childhood was鈥�

Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum: Original Emory Street Home of the "Sultan of Swat"

On February 6, 1968, the city paid $1,850 to buy four vacant, vandalized rowhouses on Emory Street鈥攁n unusual birthday celebration for famed Baltimore native Babe Ruth. Exactly seventy-three years鈥�

Maryland Penitentiary

The Maryland Penitentiary on Eager Street was completed in 1897, as part of a national prison building boom prompted by reform efforts. The building was designed by architect Jackson C. Gott. Gott鈥�

Former Fells Point Branch, Enoch Pratt Free Library: Branch No. 19 and the Education-Based Latino Outreach (EBLO) Center

Built in 1922, the former Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch No. 19 at 606 South Ann Street was one of a large number of branch libraries that opened in the early twentieth century. Between 1908 and鈥�

Severn Teackle Wallis Statue: The Municipal Art Society's Memorial to a Maryland Lawyer

The Severn Teackle Wallis Statue by French sculptor Laurent-Honor茅 Marqueste was dedicated on January 9, 1906 in the south square of Mount Vernon Place in front of the new building of the Walters Art鈥�

Arena Playhouse: A Historic Showcase for Black Playwrights and Performers

The Arena Playhouse at 801 McCulloh Street has been occupied by the Arena Players, an African American theater troupe, since December 1961. Established in 1953 as an outgrowth of the 鈥淭he Negro Little鈥�

Trinity Baptist Church: A Center of Civil Rights Activism in the Early 20th Century

Trinity Baptist Church at the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and McMechen Street tells the story of Baltimore's connections to the national civil rights movement and radical Black activism in the early鈥�

Columbus Monument: A Controversial Obelisk on Harford Road

By Dustin Linz & Eli Pousson

The Columbus Monument is a forty-four foot tall brick and cement obelisk standing in a small park at Harford Road and Walther Boulevard. The monument to Christopher Columbus was erected by French鈥�

Warden鈥檚 House, Baltimore City Jail

By Eli Pousson & Richard F. Messick

The Warden's House on Monument Street is a remarkable work of architecture and a unique reminder of the history of justice and injustice in Baltimore. The Warden's House was erected between 1855 and鈥�

Sphinx Club

Light and music onced poured out the windows and door of the Sphinx Club on Pennsylvania Avenue but only club members (and musicians) could get inside to enjoy the drinks and entertainment. Today, the鈥�

Baltimore Musicians' Union 543

The聽Baltimore Black Musicians Union opened a meeting hall and boarding house at 620-622 Dolphin Street around the 1940s. Due to the discrimination of Baltimore's downtown hotels at that time,鈥�

Zell Motor Car Company Showroom: A Stylish Dealership and Showroom on Mount Royal Avenue

The Zell Motor Car Company Showroom on East Mount Royal Avenue was built in 1909 and expanded in 1915. The design, by local architect Edward H. Glidden, remains a unique reminder of Baltimore鈥檚 early鈥�

Freedom House: A Hub for Civil Rights Lost to Demolition

1234 Druid Hill Avenue had a story unlike any other. When builders erected the house in the nineteenth century it was one of many handsome Italianate rowhouses in the northwestern suburbs of the city.鈥�

Harry Sythe Cummings House: The Final Home of Baltimore's First Black City Councilman

A neglected brick rowhouse at 1318 Druid Hill Avenue was once the residence of Baltimore鈥檚 first black City Councilman Harry S. Cummings. Harry S. Cummings, his wife Blanche Teresa Conklin and their鈥�

Pavilion Building at Hopkins Plaza

Built in 1970, the Pavilion Building is a companion to the adjacent Mercantile Bank & Trust building 鈥� both designed by architects Peterson and Brickbauer. Once home to the stylish Schrafft's鈥�

Catholic Center: A Modern Office for the Baltimore Archdiocese

The stylish Catholic Center building at the southwest corner of Mulberry and Cathedral Streets has been an important administrative office for the Baltimore Archdiocese for fifty years. The鈥�

North Point Branch, Baltimore County Public Library

Dedicated in March 1965, the North Point branch of the Baltimore County Public Library is a sharp example of modernism in the southeastern suburbs. The building was designed by the local firm of Smith鈥�

Royer's Hill Methodist Episcopal Church

The former Royer's Hill Methodist Episcopal Church at 400 West 24th Street is a small stone building with a gable roof used in 2010 as a garage. Despite several modern additions and changes, the鈥�

St. Vincent's Infant Asylum

The former St. Vincent鈥檚 Infant Asylum/Carver Hall Apartments buildings was a complex of structures built between 1860 and the 1910s to provide housing and medical services to dependent children and鈥�

U.S. Marine Hospital: From Sick Sailors to the Hopkins Homewood Campus

The former U.S. Marine Hospital on Wyman Park Drive near the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus was built in 1934鈥攂ut the Marine Hospital Service itself dated back over a century earlier. In鈥�

Fleet-McGinley Company Building: "The Best Equipped Printing Office in Baltimore"

The former Fleet-McGinley Company building at the northwest corner of Water and South Streets was built in 1908鈥攐ne of scores of new warehouses and factories built around downtown as the city rebuilt鈥�

Ma & Pa Roundhouse on Falls Road

The former Ma & Pa Railroad Roundhouse is an often overlooked landmark located on Falls Road just north of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum.