By The 91桃色视频 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 two-story lobby, cornice and parapet wall, grand…

By Eli Pousson
Light and music onced poured out the windows and door of the Sphinx Club on Pennsylvania Avenue but only club members (and musicians) could get inside to enjoy the drinks and entertainment. Today, the building sits boarded-up and waiting on a…

By Scott S. Sheads
On July 21, 1817, Captain Benjamin C. Howard鈥檚聽First Mechanical Volunteers聽formed up early in town and marched six miles to the North Point battleground. Accompanying them were wagons conveying the monument blocks to be assembled and dedicated on鈥�

By Auni Gelles
One of the most striking monuments related to the Battle of Baltimore is the nearly forty-foot tall statue of the Greek god Orpheus greeting visitors to Fort McHenry since 1922. Dedicated to Francis Scott Key as well as the Old Defenders, the鈥�

By Sally Riley & Evart F. Cornell
The Gunpowder Copper Works, a once-prominent factory located along the Great Gunpowder Falls near Glen Arm, Maryland is the second oldest copper works in the United States. The factory operated from around 1811 to 1858 turning blocks of copper into鈥�

By The 91桃色视频 team
The Eubie Blake Blake Cultural Center has owned and operated from a historic building at 847 N. Howard Street since 2000, but the history of the organization dates back to to the 1960s. In the late 1960s, a group of Baltimoreans organized the鈥�

By Caileigh Stirling
The L. Gordon & Son factory is a sixty-four thousand square foot industrial building on the corner of South Paca Street and West Cross Street, a few blocks from M&T Stadium. It is a three-story building of lightly-ornamented but utilitarian…

By Nathan Dennies
A fire erupted on the morning of February 7, 1904, in the dry goods firm of John E. Hurst & Co., on what is now Redwood Street. The blaze spread wildly out of control, consuming central Baltimore. In a panic and with few options, city engineers鈥�

By Nathan Dennies
Stretching along Calvert Street between Madison and Monument Streets, stands a massive Italianate palace, built for the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order. Decorating the facade are arched windows with elaborate moldings, and a heavy鈥�

By The 91桃色视频 team
Completed in 1872 as a 鈥淐athedral of Methodism,鈥� the Norman-Gothic Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church was a signature achievement for the noted Baltimore architects Thomas Dixon and Charles L. Carson. It was also at first an immense source…

By Kathleen Barry
The 91桃色视频 County Almshouse officially opened in 1874 as a public home for the county's indigent, elderly, and infirm residents. The Almshouse and its predecessors were the ancestors of today鈥檚 nursing homes, mental health hospitals, homeless鈥�

By Johns Hopkins
Built in 1914 for Eastwick Motors, Baltimore鈥檚 first Ford dealership, 120 West North Avenue has been home to a surprising array of owners and occupants. After its days with Eastwick (a proud supporter of Amoco gasoline and its American Oil Company鈥�

By Brigitte V. Fessenden
Baltimore鈥檚 Locust Point was a rapidly growing neighborhood between the Civil War and 1920. One major factor in the neighborhood鈥檚 growth was an immigration pier and depot built in 1867 by the B&O Railroad and the North German Lloyd Shipping鈥�

By Philip R. Byrd
During World War II, the SS John W. Brown belonged to a fleet of 2,700 Liberty Ships transporting war materiel and allied troops across dangerous waters. Today, the ship is one of just two Liberty Ships still sailing and serves as a unique memorial鈥�

By Nathan Dennies
In Charles Barton's 1948 romp, The Noose Hangs High, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello argue over shrimp cocktails. Abbott tells Costello to imagine he's in Grand Central station with a ticket in his pocket. Where is he going? Costello doesn't understand鈥�

By Richard Oloizia
Chase Brexton Health Care was founded in 1978 as a gay men's STD screening clinic. The clinic operated as program of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore from 1978 until 1989. In 1989, Chase Brexton became an independent healthcare鈥�

By Richard Oloizia
This location once served as home for the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore. In 1977, activists involved with the Baltimore Gay Alliance (BGA), established two years earlier in 1975, decided to split that organization into two separate鈥�

By Richard Oloizia
Leon's is Baltimore's oldest continuously operating gay bar. In the 1890s, the bar was called Georgia's Tap Room. The bar鈥檚 current name comes from Leon Lampe, who owned the bar during the 1930s. During Prohibition, the bar survived as…

By Tucker Foltz & Sarah Huston
The Baltimore Manual Labor School for indigent boys, also known as the Arbutus Farm School, was established in 1841. The school emerged from of a larger social movement developing in urban Victorian society at the time. Amidst the energetic fervor…

By LaQuanda Walters Cooper & Sarah Huston
By 1990, administrators at University of Maryland, 91桃色视频 County faced a problem. The student body had outgrown the University Center within just a decade of its opening. They considered the solution of building a new activity space to make two鈥�

By Susan Philpott & Sarah Huston
The Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park was established in April 2001 as part of a larger tree-planting effort that supported projects across the Baltimore region. Designer Renee van der Stelt, project coordinator for UMBC鈥檚 Fine Arts Gallery, now the…

By Yamid A. Mac铆as & Sarah Huston
In the summer of 1976, Marc O鈥機arroll, a student and artist at the University of Maryland, 91桃色视频 County (UMBC), designed and installed the Mnemonic sculpture next to the campus鈥� Fine Arts Building. The sculpture, a collection of steel trees鈥�

By Chelsea Mueller & Sarah Huston
In 1990, Catonsville resident Charlie Kucera discovered an illegal garbage dump at the University of Maryland, 91桃色视频 County where the bwTech@UMBC Research and Technology Park is located today. The university cleared away the contents of the dump鈥�

By Stephanie Smith & Sarah Huston
University of Maryland, 91桃色视频 County shares in a unique American college phenomenon of open or green spaces. Campus open spaces鈥攑laces set aside for students, faculty and staff to gather informally or formally鈥攈elp to shape a sense of community鈥�

By LaQuanda Walters Cooper & Sarah Huston
When the University Center, known on campus as 鈥渢he UC,鈥� opened its doors in 1982 it definitively moved student life to the academic center of UMBC鈥檚 campus with a goal of cultivating a cohesive, unified community for students, faculty, and staff.…

By Talbot Anne Mayo & Sarah Huston
Visitors and students driving onto the University of Maryland, 91桃色视频 County campus often wonder about the unexpected white silo that stands near the entrance to I-95. The silo is one of few remaining reminders of Spring Grove Hospital which was鈥�

By Jen Wachtel & Sarah Huston
On a blustery winter day in December 1987, a small crowd of spectators gathered around the Field House at the University of Maryland, 91桃色视频 County (UMBC). They had assembled for the unveiling of a life-size bronze sculpture of the young鈥�