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�

Flag House

By National Park Service

In this small brick house on East Pratt Street, Mary Young Pickersgill designed and fabricated the Star-Spangled Banner. Pickersgill was assisted by her mother, niece and a Black indentured servent,鈥�

Flag House Courts and Albemarle Square

By Jewish Museum of Maryland

Albemarle Square is a new residential development that makes up virtually all the housing in the Jonestown neighborhood today. Albemarle Square opened in 2006 on the footprint of the old Flag House鈥�

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

By Eli Pousson

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�

Florence Crittenton Home: The Former Home of David Carroll of the Mount Vernon Mill Company

By The Explore 91视频 team

Crittenton Home was originally the home of David Carroll, owner of the Mount Vernon Mill Company. The building got its name after being absorbed by the Florence Crittenton Mission in 1925.

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�

Ford's Theatre: Theatrical and Civil Rights History

By The Explore 91视频 team

Baltimore activists have a long history of fighting discrimination and segregation in the city鈥檚 public establishments. In the years after World War II, the NAACP and their allies worked to end鈥�

Former Carter Memorial Church

By Eli Pousson

The congregation of the Carter Memorial Church has its origins in 1926 when James Roosevelt Carter and his wife Catherine Carter arrived in Baltimore from Pennsylvania. James Carter spent years鈥�

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

By Eli Pousson

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�

Fort Carroll

By Preservation Alliance of Baltimore County

Fort Carroll is a 3.4 acre artificial island and abandoned fort located within the shadow of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The fort was designed by then Brevet-Colonel Robert E. Lee, and construction鈥�

Fort Howard

By Eli Pousson

On the morning of September 12, 1814, five thousand British troops landed outside of Baltimore and marched on the city of Baltimore with a plan to capture the city. Major General Robert Ross, a鈥�

Fort McHenry

By Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

Fort McHenry's history began in 1776 when the citizens of Baltimore Town feared an attack by British ships. An earthen star fort known as Fort Whetstone was quickly constructed. The fort, like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�

Franklin Square

By The Explore 91视频 team

Franklin Square Park is one of the oldest parks in the city, with its origins in the estate of Dr. James McHenry, who lived at a home known as Fayetteville located near Baltimore and Fremont Streets鈥�

Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park

By 91视频, Maryland State Archives & Camille Heung

The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park is a Living Classrooms Foundation campus (and headquarters). It is a national heritage site that celebrates the contributions of African Americans in鈥�

Freedom House: A Hub for Civil Rights Lost to Demolition

By Eli Pousson

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�

Friends Burial Ground: Baltimore's Oldest Cemetery

By The Explore 91视频 team

Contained on a little less than three acres across from Clifton Park in northeast Baltimore, the Friends Burial Ground tells the stories of generations Baltimore's Quaker families across their 300鈥�

Furness House

By Nathan Dennies

A slice of English architecture, the Furness House was built in 1917 by architect Edward H. Glidden. Glidden also designed the Washington Place Apartments in Mount Vernon and the Marlboro Apartments鈥�

G. Krug & Son Ironworks and Museum: America's Oldest Operating Ironworks

By Patrick Cutter

For more than 200 years artisans here have hammered out practical and ornamental ironwork that still graces local landmarks as Otterbein Methodist Church, the Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore's鈥�

Garrett Building

By Nathan Dennies

Robert Garrett was the original owner of the thirteen-story Garrett Building. Among other things, Garrett was a banker, Olympian, collector of medieval manuscripts, and a leader in the development of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�

Gayety Theater: A Venerable Keystone of "The Block"

By Laurie Ossman

Built in the aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, the Gayety Theatre opened on February 5, 1906鈥攎aking this building the oldest remaining burlesque theater in Baltimore. While the theatre鈥�

General Electric Apparatus Service Shop: Electrical maintenance, environmental remediation, and mixed-use development

By Baltimore Museum of Industry

The General Electric (GE) Apparatus Service Center did not support private consumers in maintaining their individual household appliances. Rather, this service center maintained large electrical鈥�

General Ship Repair: Four generations of South Baltimore Shipbuilding

By Baltimore Museum of Industry

General Ship Repair maintains the rich shipbuilding tradition so long associated with the South Baltimore neighborhoods of Federal Hill and Locust Point. Charles 鈥淏uck鈥� Lynch founded the company in鈥�

George McMechen House

By Francesca Cohen

Although the famed African American lawyer and civil rights advocate George McMechen is remembered fondly for his service to the community, he is best remembered for living on McCulloh Street. In June鈥�

Gertrude Stein on East Biddle Street

By Amelia Grabowski

A novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist, Gertrude Stein is remembered as a literary innovator who fearlessly experimented with language in the early twentieth century. Today, Gertrude Stein is鈥�

Gordon Cleaners

By Ashley Minner Jones

East Baltimore Church of God, the second oldest congregation established by Lumbee Indians in the City of Baltimore, was in 1955 known as the 鈥淯pper Room鈥� Church because services were held above鈥�

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�

Great House of Isaac Benesch and Sons

By Julie Saylor

Once a bustling department store complex on North Gay Street, the Great House of Isaac Benesch and Sons has been vacant for over a decade as the Old Town Mall waits on the progress of long stalled鈥�

Greater Rosemont and the Movement Against Destruction

By Dr. Edward Orser

Today, the parking lot of the West Baltimore MARC Station and the concrete highway lanes to the east dominate this site, symbols both of the weight of the past and prospects for the future. In the鈥�