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William Donald Schaefer on Edgewood Street
Born on November 2, 1921, William Donald Schaefer lived most of his life in a modest rowhouse on Edgewood Street. The only child of William Henry and Tululu Irene Schaefer, he attended Lyndhurst鈥�
Gundry/Glass Hospital: Grand Gundry Sanitarium
Dr. Alfred T. Gundry established the Gundry Sanitarium on his family farm in the late 1800s, and the Gundry family continued to operate the facility up through 1990. Dr. Gundry served as the medical鈥�
Emory Grove
Emory Grove, located in Glyndon, has provided its summer residents with spiritual inspiration and respite from Baltimore City's summer heat for over 145 years. Originally founded in 1868 as a鈥�
Friends Burial Ground: Baltimore's Oldest Cemetery
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�
Institute of Notre Dame
The Institute of Notre Dame is a Baltimore landmark that has educated young women for over 150 years.
Maryland Art Place
The Maryland Art Place is a local cultural institution occupying a five-story Richardsonian Romanesque industrial building on the west side of Baltimore鈥檚 Downtown.
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Jewish Educational Alliance: The Levy Building on East Baltimore Street
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�
Presbyterian Eye, Ear & Throat Charity Hospital
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�
Attman's Delicatessen and Corned Beef Row
Attman鈥檚 Delicatessen at 1019 E. Lombard Street is one of just a few delis the remain at the heart of the old Lombard Street market that once stretched from Albemarle Street to Central Avenue. Imagine鈥�
Labor Lyceum and Talmud Torah
In the early 1900s, the Labor Lyceum at 1023 E. Baltimore Street was a busy union hall and neighborhood cultural center. Americans once used the term 鈥渓yceum鈥� to describe public halls used for鈥�
Jewish Working Girls Home and the Russian Night School
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�
Hendler Creamery Company
This building was slated for demolition in 2023.聽Looking up at this large, handsome red brick and stone building across Baltimore Street, one can just make out the remnants of 鈥淗endler Creamery鈥�
Jewish Immigrants on Lombard Street
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�
Old Hamilton Library
The Old Hamilton Branch Library at 3006 Hamilton Avenue is a historic branch library building constructed in 1920 to serve the community of Hamilton in the developing Harford Road corridor of鈥�
Flag House Courts and Albemarle Square
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�
East Baltimore Street Delicatessens
The history of delicatessens in East Baltimore is not limited to Lombard Street. In the thoughtfully restored 800 block of East Baltimore Street, Harry Goodman established one of the city鈥檚 earliest鈥�
"The Little House" on Montgomery Street
With thousands of rowhouses in every shape, size, and style across the city, not every house stands out. But, 200 陆 East Montgomery Street has earned a rare distinction as the narrowest rowhouse in鈥�
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
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�
O'Connor's Liquors and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee: Package Store, Restaurant. and New Deal Labor Landmark
O'Connor's, a package store and restaurant, has been located since the early 1920s in the heart of Greektown at the corner of Eastern Avenue and Oldham Street. In the 1940s, this unassuming,鈥�
Pemco International Corporation
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�
United Steel Workers Locals 2609 and 2610: Old and New Union Halls on Dundalk Avenue
Two aging union halls on Dundalk Avenue help the story of Baltimore鈥檚 steel industry. In 1942, steel workers had won their right to unionize and established the United Steel Workers鈥� of America. When鈥�
Turner Station
Tucked away in the southeastern corner of Baltimore County, and separated from the rest of Sparrow鈥檚 Point by a creek, Turner Station is where many African American workers at Bethlehem Steel and鈥�
Dundalk Town Center
Bethlehem Steel owned and operated Sparrow鈥檚 Point as a company town near the expansive mill complex from the 1890s through the early 1970s. In 1916, however, Bethlehem Steel departed from the model鈥�
Speaker's Corner on Eastern Avenue
In the 1930s, when the managers at Bethlehem Steel remained staunchly opposed to unionization, labor activists at Sparrow鈥檚 Point faced real challenges. According to Ellen Pinter, men couldn鈥檛 wear鈥�
International Seamen鈥檚 Union Headquarters, Seamen鈥檚 Defense Committee and National Maritime Union
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�
American Brewery Building
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�
Eastern Avenue Sewage Pumping Station
Completed in 1912, the Eastern Avenue Sewage Pumping Station opened as a critical engine of Baltimore鈥檚 then brand-new sewer system. City engineers built the station to house enormous steam-driven鈥�
Jim Rouse Center of the American Visionary Art Museum
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�
Baltimore Museum of Industry
In the late 1970s, Mayor William Donald Schaefer proposed the creation of a museum to tell the story of Baltimore industry across two centuries of American history. Even before they the new museum鈥�
Union Mill
Originally known as Druid Mill, Union Mill was built between 1865 and 1872. At the time, it was the largest cotton duck mill in the United States. A unique feature of the mill's construction is the鈥�