James Monroe Deems
This file appears in: James M. Deems Music School: A Local Composer at 426 W. Baltimore Street

Born in Baltimore in 1818, this portrait print from 1900 likely used an earlier photograph. Deems died in 1901 and is buried at Green Mount Cemetery.
This file appears in: James M. Deems Music School: A Local Composer at 426 W. Baltimore Street
James M. Deems Music School: A Local Composer at 426 W. Baltimore Street
Spinning wheel manufacturers, cigar makers, tailors, hat makers, multiple banks, and a music school all occupied this site—often at the same time—going back to the early nineteenth century. During the…