Maryland: Baltimore City Historical Markers
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4AJ_wendel-bollman_Baltimore-MD.html
Wendel Bollman, one of a handful of men who transformed bridge-building from an art into a science, was born on this site to German parents on January 21, 1814.
Largely self-educated, Bollman acquired his engineering knowledge and experience at the Balti…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4AM_the-garrett-building_Baltimore-MD.html
This 13-story building, completed in 1913, was designed by Baltimore architects J. B. Noel Wyatt and William G. Nolting. Reflecting a mixture of styles, this transitional building combines the Chicago windows, flat wall panes and flat skyline characteristic…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4AN_alex-brown-sons-company-building_Baltimore-MD.html
This building was home to Alex. Brown & Sons Company, founded in 1800, the first and oldest continually operating investment banking firm in the United States. The building represents the firm's and Baltimore's importance in the financial world of the ninet…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4BH_mckim-free-school_Baltimore-MD.html
Before Baltimore's public school system opened in 1829, education was the concern of charitable and religious organizations. An early leader in the education movement was the McKim Free School, established through a bequest of Quaker merchant John McKim. In…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4BI_lloyd-street-synagogue_Baltimore-MD.html
The Lloyd Street Synagogue, dedicated in 1845, is the first synagogue erected in Maryland and the third oldest surviving synagogue in the United States. A simple, elegant building in the popular Greek Revival style, it was designed for the Baltimore Hebrew …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4BK_b-nai-israel-synagogue_Baltimore-MD.html
The B'nai Israel Synagogue, erected in 1876, is the longest actively-used synagoue in Baltimore. It was built by Congregation Chizuk Amuno ("Strengthening of the Faith"), whose members had seceded from the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in 1870 to protest ch…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4BM_sailors-union-church_Baltimore-MD.html
In July 1846, a battered and storm-tossed hulk, the William Penn, was moored at the pier at Light Street wharf across from what is now the McCormick building. A ship chandler, a rigger and other local merchants with interests in the shipping industry bought…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4E1_the-first-unitarian-church-of-baltimore_Baltimore-MD.html
In 1817, when Baltimore Town boasted 60,000 inhabitants and Mount Vernon Place was still a forest, a group of leading citizens met in the home of Henry Payson "to form a religious society and build a church for Christians who are Unitarian and cherish liber…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4ED_st-marys-seminary_Baltimore-MD.html
Here, at the One Mile Tavern, in 1791, the Fathers of St. Sulpice (Paris, France) founded St. Mary's, the first Roman Catholic Seminary in the United States. Maryland was then a center of Catholic activity, with Baltimore having been selected at the nation'…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4HV_the-munsey-building_Baltimore-MD.html
When this structure was completed in 1911, it was Baltimore's tallest office building. Of steel construction, faced with Bedford limestone on the lower floors, and brick and terra cotta above, the building stands as a monument of sorts to the whims of newsp…