Perkins Square Baptist Church

By Eli Pousson

Perkins Square Baptist Church has been an institution on Edmondson Avenue since the mid-1950s occupying a grey stone church that began in 1913 as Emmanuel English Evangelical Lutheran Church. The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�

Phoenix Shot Tower

By Marsha Wight Wise

The Shot Tower, when it was built in 1828, was the tallest structure in the United States until 1846. Once there were three such towers in Baltimore; now there are only a few left in the entire world.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�

Pine Street Station

By Dorothy Beyer & Theresa Donnelly

Pine Street Station, the handsome, slate-roofed High Victorian Gothic building was built between 1877 and 1878 and designed by architect Francis E. Davis. The red brick structure, which is trimmed鈥�

Polish Home Club: Dom Polski on Broadway

By Sierra Hallmen

The Polish Home Club, known then as the Polish Home Hall, opened to six hundred members of the Polish community on August 11, 1918, in an area of Fell's Point known as 鈥淟ittle Poland.鈥� Baltimore鈥檚鈥�

Polish Home Hall

By The Explore 91视频 team

Built around 1905 in the vernacular Beaux Arts style, the Polish Home Hall originally functioned as a town hall and home to the volunteer fire company of Curtis Bay. In 1919, when Baltimore City鈥�

Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Works: Industry and Adaptive Reuse at Clipper Mill

By Nathan Dennies

At its peak in the late nineteenth century, the Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Works employed over 700 people, making it one of the largest employers in the Jones Falls Valley after the textile鈥�

Poppleton Firehouse: Engine House No. 38 on Baltimore Street

By Eli Pousson

The handsome Tudor Revival turrets of the Poppleton Fire Station (Engine House #38) stand out next to the modern glass facades of the University of Maryland BioPark on Baltimore Street. Designed by鈥�

Presbyterian Eye, Ear & Throat Charity Hospital

By Jewish Museum of Maryland

Today, the entire south side of the block between Exeter and Lloyd is occupied by the Helping Up Mission, a transitional housing and recovery center which has recently completed renovation of the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�

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�

Pride of Baltimore Memorial

By Mary Zajac

A raked mast of a Baltimore Clipper ship stands tall on land in Rash Field on the south end of the Inner Harbor. Accompanied by a block of pink granite inscribed with four names of lost crewmembers,鈥�

Procter & Gamble Baltimore Plant: Under Armour's world headquarters

By Baltimore Museum of Industry

Today the site of Under Armour's world headquarters, five of these buildings used to house Procter & Gamble's Baltimore Plant: Process Building (1929), the Soap Chip Building (1929), the Bar Soap鈥�

Public School 32: 19th Century School Reused as a 21st Century Charter School

By Eli Pousson

Built in 1890, Public School No. 32, now better known as home to the Baltimore Montessori School, is a rare historic community school building, one of scores built in the late 19th century to support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�

R. House

By The Explore 91视频 team

R. House was built on the southwest corner of the intersection of Remington Avenue and West 29th Street in 1924 as the Eastwick Motor Company garage. Up until the 1920s, most of Baltimore鈥檚 car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�

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture

By Nathan Dennies

The 82,000 square-foot Reginald F. Lewis Museum opened in 2005 and immediately made history as the first major building in downtown Baltimore designed by African American architects鈥攁 joint effort鈥�

Rehoboth Church of God in Christ Jesus Apostolic

By Lauren Schiszik

The site of this Franklintown Road church has been home to a church since 1835, when Colonel John Berry helped establish Summerfield Methodist Episcopal Church. Today, the Rehoboth Church of God in鈥�

Rev. Harvey Johnson and Amelia Johnson House

By 91视频 & Maryland State Archives

As African Americans in Baltimore sought to redefine themselves in the 1880s -- politically, geographically, socially -- the city鈥檚 black pastorate served as a vital source of leadership. None of this鈥�

Revel's Grocery Store

By Ashley Minner Jones

Jesse B. Revels Jr. (Lumbee) and his wife, Lucy May Revels, bought the property at 1819 E. Baltimore Street in 1962 and opened a grocery store. They and their children ran the store until 1968, when鈥�

Richard Wagner Memorial Bust

By Allyson Schuele

Dedicated in 1901, the Richard Wagner Bust was donated to the city by the United Singers of Baltimore who received the monument as the first prize trophy for the annual S盲ngerfeste choral competition.

Riverside Park

By Eli Pousson

Today, from the rise within Riverside Park, established in 1875, a visitor can see the rowhouses and churches of South Baltimore densely packed around the park in every direction. During the War of鈥�

Robert Long House

By Sierra Hallmen

Just around the corner from the busy shops and restaurants of Thames Street is the Robert Long House at 812 South Ann Street, the very image of a handsome eighteenth century colonial residence and one鈥�

Roger Brooke Taney Monument: Absent Statue of the Author of the Dred Scott Decision

By The Explore 91视频 team

The Roger Brooke Taney Monument is not explicitly a Confederate monument. However, Taney is most famous for his decision in the Dred Scott case, which advanced slavery in America and is tied to the鈥�

Rogers Buchanan Cemetery

By Edward Johnson & Eli Pousson

Rogers Buchanan Cemetery is hardly famous. Few visitors to the park even know where the cemetery is. Fewer still know the surprising stories of the men and women interred behind the wrought iron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�

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�

Roland Water Tower: A Relic of Baltimore's Early Water Supply System

By Eli Pousson

The Roland Water Tower was built in 1905 as a 211,000-gallon water tank to supply residents in Hampden and nearby neighborhoods. It was part of a complicated water supply system that included the鈥�