Grace & St. Peter's Church: Gothic Episcopal Architecture on Park Avenue

By Johns Hopkins

The first true brownstone building in Baltimore, today鈥檚 Grace & St. Peter鈥檚 Church opened its doors in 1852 as Grace Church on Park Avenue in Mount Vernon. Architecturally, it was the first church鈥�

Motor House: Former "Load of Fun" Building on North Avenue

By Johns Hopkins

Built in 1914 for Eastwick Motors, Baltimore鈥檚 first Ford dealership, 120 West North Avenue has been home to a surprising array of owners and occupants. After its days with Eastwick (a proud supporter鈥�

Munsey Building: Former Home to the Baltimore News and the Equitable Trust Company

By Johns Hopkins

The Munsey Building was erected by and named after the publisher, Frank Munsey, who had purchased the Baltimore News to add to his publishing empire. Though he wanted the paper, he did not like the鈥�

Pimlico Race Course: Home of The Preakness

By Johns Hopkins

Alfred G. Vanderbilt once said of Pimlico that it is 鈥渕ore than a dirt track bounded by four streets. It is an accepted American institution, devoted to the best interests of a great sport, graced by鈥�

The Ivy Hotel

By Johns Hopkins

Mount Vernon鈥檚 elegant and historic Ivy Hotel has a rich lineage: its roots are as a Gilded Age mansion and its uses have included city offices, a city owned and operated inn, and now a private鈥�

American Brewery Building

By Johns Hopkins

The American Brewery Building at 1701 North Gay Street might be the most 鈥淏altimore鈥� of all buildings in the city. It is in the style of High Victorian architecture, as so much of our city was built,鈥�

Hotel Brexton

By Johns Hopkins

The Hotel Brexton was built in 1881 for Samuel Wyman, a wealthy Baltimore merchant. The six-story Brexton was built as a residential hotel in the Queen Anne Style, with Baltimore pressed brick and鈥�

Druid Hill Park Superintendent's House

By Johns Hopkins

The Superintendent鈥檚 House in Druid Hill Park dates to 1872 and was designed by architect George Frederick (who also designed City Hall). It was built using local 鈥淏utler Stone鈥� from Baltimore County鈥�

Arch Social Club

By Johns Hopkins

The Arch Social Club at Pennsylvania and North Avenues started its life as Schanze's Theater, a movie house constructed in 1912. After serving time as a Wilson's Restaurant from the 1930s through the鈥�

Monumental Life Building

By Johns Hopkins

Beginning in 1928 when it was built and for 84 years afterwards, the Monumental Life Insurance Company occupied what was ubiquitously known as the Monumental Life Building. In 2012, however,鈥�

Gunther Brewery

By Johns Hopkins

From brewery to apartments, the reuse of the Gunther brewery complex is remarkable for its scope and quality. The building is in what鈥檚 now called, aptly, the Brewer鈥檚 Hill neighborhood east of鈥�

Elisha Tyson's Falls Road House

By Johns Hopkins

Originally the summer home of industrialist and abolitionist Elisha Tyson in the early 1800s, 732 Pacific Street is a classic Federal style house built with native granite two feet thick. Among many鈥�

Clifton Park Valve House

By Johns Hopkins

The Clifton Park Valve House on St. Lo Drive in Clifton Park is a magnificent Gothic revival stone and tile-roofed structure built between 1887 and 1888. It was built to house the machinery used in鈥�

McDonogh School

By Johns Hopkins

John McDonogh, a Baltimore-born merchant and philanthropist, was born in 1779 and died in 1850, bequeathing half of his estate to the City of Baltimore to educate children. However, since the public鈥�

Dickeyville

By Johns Hopkins

The Gwynns Falls first saw industrial development as early as the late 1700s and, by 1808, the small industrial village began to form around an early paper mill along the water where Dickeyville sits鈥�

Perry Hall Mansion

By Johns Hopkins

Erected high on a hill above the Gunpowder River Valley, Perry Hall Mansion dominated life in northeastern Baltimore County in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Built in the 1770s by鈥�

Rogers Mansion in Druid Hill Park

By Johns Hopkins

The Mansion House, built by Revolutionary War Colonel Nicholas Rogers, has stood in what is now Druid Hill Park since 1801. The house is the third to stand in this location. Originally a castle known鈥�

Baltimore Arena

By Johns Hopkins

In 1961, the cornerstone of the Baltimore Civic Center (as it was then called) was laid, enclosing a time capsule with notes from President John F. Kennedy, Maryland Governor Millard Tawes, and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�

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�

Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi) Building

By Johns Hopkins

In January 1799, the Maryland Legislature approved a petition for a charter to incorporate a society of physicians in Maryland to be known as the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of鈥�

Everyman Theatre

By Johns Hopkins

Constructed across from the venerable Ford's Theater in 1911, the Empire Theatre (as the Everyman was first called) was designed in the Beaux Arts style by Baltimore architects William McElfatrick and鈥�

Miller's Court

By Johns Hopkins

Erected in stages between 1890 and 1910, the former H.F. Miller & Son Company building consists of a 77,000 square foot brick manufacturing plant that occupies half of the city block bounded by 26th鈥�

First & Franklin Presbyterian Church

By Johns Hopkins

In 1761, a group of Scots-Irish "Dissenters" (opponents of the Church of England) came to Baltimore Towne from Pennsylvania to escape the French and Indian War. They founded the First Presbyterian鈥�

Garrett-Jacobs Mansion

By Johns Hopkins

Beginning in 1872, the mansion was the home of Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and his wife Mary Frick Garrett. After Robert Garrett's death, Mrs. Garrett married Dr. Henry鈥�

Baltimore Design School

By Elise Hoffman & Johns Hopkins

A survivor that has endured decades of abandonment, the 1914 Lebow Building is an impressive example of early twentieth century industrial architecture that is just starting a new future as the鈥�

Masonic Grand Lodge

By Johns Hopkins

In 1869, the Freemasons finished a new Grand Lodge for the State of Maryland on Charles Street in downtown Baltimore, with each room more decorated than the last. Originally designed by Edmund G.鈥�

Taylor's Chapel: 150 year-old Methodist Chapel at the Mount Pleasant Golf Course

By Johns Hopkins

Who knew that tucked away inside the Mount Pleasant public golf course off Hillen Road sits a remarkably well preserved 150 year-old Methodist chapel?

St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church

By Johns Hopkins

There are few places where you can stand in the middle of a room and almost everything you see is made or decorated by Tiffany: glass, paint, finishes, etc. St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church on鈥�

Old Otterbein Church

By Johns Hopkins

Old Otterbein Church, built in 1785, is one of the oldest churches still standing in Baltimore. With its classic brick and white trim tower (with bells brought over from Germany), the church shows off鈥�