Hilgartner Natural Stone Company: Marble Steps and Monuments for the Monumental City

By Richard F. Messick

Founded in 1863 by German immigrants Ludwig Hilgartner and Gottfried Schimpf, Hilgartner Stone has made some of the nation鈥檚 finest stonework for over one hundred and fifty years. Of course, the鈥�

Hilton Parkway

By Eli Pousson

More than just a road, Hilton Parkway was inspired by the advice of renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and is a testament to the transformative investment of the New Deal in鈥�

Hippodrome Theatre

By Theresa Donnelly

Designed by noted Scottish American theatre architect Thomas Lamb, the Hippodrome Theatre opened in 1914 as one of the first theatres in the United States to operate both as a movie house and a鈥�

Hochschild Kohn Warehouse at 520 Park Avenue

By The Explore 91视频 team

In 1942, after taking a powerful loss during the early years of the Great Depression, the Hochschild Kohn & Co. Department Store was finally ready to expand. An anchor for this planned growth was鈥�

Hokahey Indian Trading Post

By Ashley Minner Jones

In 1975, Earl Brooks (Lumbee) purchased a storefront building at 207 S. Broadway and opened Hokahey Indian Trading Post with his friend, Solomon Maynor (Coharie). The store primarily sold silver and鈥�

Hollins Market: Baltimore's Oldest Operating Public Market

By The Explore 91视频 team

The market was conceived in 1835 after piano makers Joseph Newman and his brother Elias Newman were given permission by the city to erect a market on the 1100 block of Hollins Street. In 1838, winds鈥�

Home of Augusta T. Chissell

By Tyler Wilson

Augusta T. Chissell was one of the most influential activists in the women鈥檚 suffrage movement in Maryland. She lived in the red painted row house at the corner of Druid Hill Ave and McMechen St.鈥�

Home of Tupac Shakur

By Francesca Cohen

There are very few people who have made an impact on American popular culture like Tupac Shakur. His music served to inspire a generation of musicians--music that was inevitably shaped by his time in鈥�

Homewood House

By Johns Hopkins

In 1800, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence and the wealthiest signer to boot) decided to give his son (also Charles) and bride, Harriet Chew, a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�

Housewerks: The Former Bayard Station Gas Valve Building

By The Explore 91视频 team

Tracey Clark and Ben Riddleberger purchased the 1885 gas valve building, historically known as the Chesapeake Gas Works, in 2005 to house their architectural salvage business鈥擧ousewerks. Riddleberger鈥�

Howard Atwood Kelly at 1408 Eutaw Place: Home of the "Wizard of the Operating Room"

By Eli Pousson

Born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1858, Howard Atwood Kelly attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1877 and his M.D. in 1882. In 1889, he became the first鈥�

Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory: Glass Greenhouses for the histroic Druid Hill Conservatory

By H.P. Rawlings Conservatory

Established in 1888 as the Druid Hill Conservatory, the Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory has grown from the original Palm House and Orchid Room to include three greenhouses, two display pavilions, and鈥�

Howard Street Bridge

By Eli Pousson

Built in 1938, the Howard Street Bridge is nearly 1,000 feet long with two steel arches spanning the Jones Falls Valley. This award winning bridge (voted one of the most beautiful by the American鈥�

Hunt鈥檚 Service Station

By Ashley Minner Jones

Claudie and Mabel Hunt (Lumbee) purchased the Sinclair service station at 100 S. Broadway, ca. 1967. It had a three-bay garage and six gas pumps. After about a year, the station was converted to BP.鈥�

Hutzler's

By Theresa Donnelly & Sydney Jenkins

"If you wanted the good stuff, you went to Hutzler's," said Governor William Donald Schaefer and for generations of Baltimoreans, Hutzler's represented the height of downtown shopping, simply the鈥�

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

By Eli Pousson

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�

Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery

By Sharon Reinhard

Immanuel Lutheran Church purchased a six-acre farm on Grindon Lane near Harford Road in 1874 for the purpose of a cemetery. This area, known as Lauraville, was a sparsely populated community of鈥�

Industry on the Gwynns Falls: Gristmills, Union Stockyards, and the Wilkens Curled Hair Factory

By Gwynns Falls Trail Council

Industries flourished in the lower Gwynns Falls Valley since the early 1700s, when the Baltimore Iron Works Company turned iron into nails and anchors and Dr. Charles Carroll's gristmills ground wheat鈥�

Institute of Notre Dame

By The Explore 91视频 team

The Institute of Notre Dame is a Baltimore landmark that has educated young women for over 150 years.

Inter-Tribal Restaurant

By Ashley Minner Jones

The Baltimore American Indian Center opened the Inter-Tribal Restaurant at 17 S. Broadway, during the tenure of Director Barry Richardson (Haliwa Saponi), ca. 1989. Board members of the Indian Center鈥�

International Seamen鈥檚 Union Headquarters, Seamen鈥檚 Defense Committee and National Maritime Union

By Rachel Donaldson

At the corner of Broadway and Eastern Avenue, stands a modest three-story brick building with corbeling below a flat roof supported by heavy brackets and full cornice line. Over the course of the鈥�

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

By Eli Pousson

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�

Irish Railroad Workers Museum: Labor and Immigration at 918 and 920 Lemmon Street

By Johns Hopkins

Small in size but featuring a nationally significant story, Baltimore's Irish Railroad Workers Museum on Lemmon Street offers a rare glimpse of immigrant home life in America in the middle of the 19th鈥�

James M. Deems Music School: A Local Composer at 426 W. Baltimore Street

By Elizabeth Pente & Theresa Donnelly

Spinning wheel manufacturers, cigar makers, tailors, hat makers, multiple banks, and a music school all occupied this site鈥攐ften at the same time鈥攇oing back to the early nineteenth century. During the鈥�

James Mosher Elementary School

By Dr. Edward Orser

James Mosher Elementary (#144) was built in 1933. The original brick structure, facing Wheeler Avenue, was constructed in simple Art Deco style. In an era of segregation, it was designated a 鈥渨hite鈥濃��

Jewish Educational Alliance: The Levy Building on East Baltimore Street

By Jewish Museum of Maryland

Of the many Jewish institutions in East Baltimore, the Jewish Educational Alliance at 1216 East Baltimore Street is one of the most fondly remembered. The organization formed in 1909 when the鈥�

Jewish Immigrants on Lombard Street

By Jewish Museum of Maryland

In the early 1900s, more than 600 people lived in the 70 houses on just a single block of Lombard Street between Lloyd and Central Avenue. For example, two households lived in 1139 E. Lombard Street鈥�

Jewish Working Girls Home and the Russian Night School

By Jewish Museum of Maryland

On a vacant lot facing the McKim Center, once stood a mid-nineteenth century Greek revival townhouse that served as the Jewish Working Girls Home in the early 1900s. The home at 1200 East Baltimore鈥�

Jim Rouse Center of the American Visionary Art Museum

By The Explore 91视频 team

Formerly home to a whiskey barrel warehouse and the offices of the Baltimore Copper Paint Company, the Jim Rouse Center of the American Visionary Art Museum serves as a prime example of adaptive reuse鈥�