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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

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�

Perkins Square

By Eli Pousson

As early as the 1840s, a small oasis of green known as Perkins' Spring became a popular destination at the edge of the rapidly growing city. The park's unique value to local residents came from the鈥�

Pennsylvania Railroad Company District Office Building

By Laurie Ossman

Built to house the Baltimore branch offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company following the Great Fire of 1904, this structure was an early commission of the architectural firm of Parker & Thomas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�

Pemco International Corporation

By Rachel Donaldson

Founded in 1911, the Pemco International Corporation site on Eastern Avenue is a reminder of the enduring environmental legacy of Baltimore鈥檚 industrial businesses. First known as the Porcelain Enamel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�

Peabody Institute

By The Explore 91视频 team

Established in 1857, the Peabody Institute is the second-oldest conservatory in the United States and a landmark at the southeast corner of the Washington Monument. Born in 1795 in Massachusetts,鈥�

Peabody Heights Brewery

By The Explore 91视频 team

The site of Peabody Heights Brewery, also home to RavenBeer, Public Works Ale, and Full Tilt Brewing, was the site of Oriole Park from 1916 to 1944. Before this, the ballpark was home to the Baltimore鈥�

Pavilion Building at Hopkins Plaza

By Eli Pousson

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�

Patterson Park Observatory

By Friends of Patterson Park

In 1890 Charles H. Latrobe, then Superintendent of Parks, designed the Observatory. The structure was intended to reflect the bold Victorian style of the day. From the top of the tower one can view鈥�

Patterson Park

By Molly Ricks

For almost two centuries, Baltimore鈥檚 Patterson Park has preserved its historic integrity while serving the recreational needs of an urban population with varied cultural, ethnic, and economic鈥�

Patapsco River Project, 1977: A South Baltimore Gateway for the Baltimore Sculpture Symposium

By Cindy Kelly

Artist Jim Sanborn鈥檚 first public sculpture, the Patapsco River Project was created as part of the Baltimore Sculpture Symposium sponsored by the city and administered by the Department of Housing and鈥�

Pascault Row

By David Thomas & Theresa Donnelly

In 1819, wealthy French merchant Louis Pascault, the Marquis de Poleon, constructed a row of eight houses on Lexington Street that now remain as the one of the earliest examples of the Baltimore鈥�

Parkway Theatre

By Elise Hoffman & Eli Pousson

Occupying a busy corner at Charles and North, the magnificent Parkway Theater entertained audiences in Central Baltimore for decades with everything from vaudeville and silent movies to nightly live鈥�

Parks Sausage Factory

By Francesca Cohen

The first African American owned company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Parks Sausage Company, was headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Parks Sausage was successful because of its鈥�

Ottmar Mergenthaler at 159 West Lanvale Street

By Nathan Dennies

Ottmar Mergenthaler was only 18 years old when he immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1872 to work with his cousin August Hahl at his machine shop in Washington, D.C. Four years later,鈥�

Orpheus with the Awkward Foot: Francis Scott Key in Allegorical Form

By Auni Gelles

The massive bronze sculpture of Orpheus at Fort McHenry represents an early 20th century celebration of the man who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner.

Orchard Street Church

By David Armenti

Constructed in 1882, the Orchard Street United Methodist Church is one of the oldest standing structures built by a Black congregation in Baltimore. The church was established by Trueman Pratt, a free鈥�

Olivet Baptist Church: Built in 1930 as the Edgewood Theater

By Eli Pousson

Established in 1922, Olivet Baptist Church has occupied the historic Edgewood Theatre since the late 1960s. Built in 1930, the Edgewood Theatre was designed by one of the city鈥檚 most prominent theatre鈥�

Old Town National Bank: Former Bank Headquarters Restored as a Hotel

By The Explore 91视频 team

The classically styled Old Town National Bank building at 221 N. Gay Street was constructed in 1924 as a bank headquarters. The first floor still retain an array of historic details, including a鈥�

Old St. Paul's Church

By Auni Gelles

One of the thirty original Anglican parishes in Maryland, St. Paul's parish has been a fixture of Baltimore since the city's incorporation. Many influential citizens attended this church, including鈥�

Old St. Paul's Cemetery

By Eli Pousson

Old St. Paul's Cemetery opened in 1802鈥攋ust a few years after Baltimore incorporated as a city鈥攁nd is the final resting place of men and women that include a signatory to the Declaration of鈥�