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| AMERICAN BREWERY BREWHOUSE BUILDING http://ntcicfunds.com/projects/american-brewery-baltimore-md/ |
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| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & HOSPITAL See more of the world's finest medical institution right here... http://themagicofbaltimore.blogspot.com/2013/12/john-hopkins-hospital-school-of-medicine.html |
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 Pier 1 301 East Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21202-3134 The last Civil War vessel afloat, the USS Constellation, was built in 1854 and is the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy. After years of restoration, she was returned to the Inner Harbor on July 2, 1999. ON WIKIPEDIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_%281854%29 THE WEBSITE http://www.historicships.org/    |
| LEARN ALL ABOUT TODD'S INHERITANCE RIGHT HERE AT THE MAGIC OF BALTIMORE http://themagicofbaltimore.blogspot.com/2013/08/todds-inheritance-baltimores-real.html |
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Entrance to the family graveyard THE BROMO SELTZER TOWER    |
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THE SEVEN FOOT KNOLL LIGHTHOUSE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Foot_Knoll_Light |
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PATTERSON PARK in BALTIMORE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson_Park |
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| IS THIS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PICTURES EVER, OR WHAT? |
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FORT McHENRY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McHenry |
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| Perhaps no landmark is more precious to Baltimoreans than Fort McHenry,
where a battle that marked a turning point not only in Maryland's
history, but in America's history, took place. At Fort McHenry the
ill-equipped, overmatched American forces held out against the British
Army and Navy and saved the new young nation in the War of 1812. Everyone knows the story of the young lawyer, Francis Scott Key, who, while detained aboard a treaty ship in the harbor, saw that the flag still flew over the embattled fort and wrote the song that would later become our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." Not many know about young Lieutenant Levi Claggett, one of the casualties of the battle - killed, with several of his men, during the shelling of his gun emplacement. He could be one of the spirits haunting the old fort. During the Civil War many people were detained in the dungeons, which are open today for viewing. One is reported to have killed himself while there. He may be another unquiet spirit. Rangers at the Fort report hearing footsteps, windows being opened and closed, doors slamming. They've allegedly seen lights turned back on after they've turned them off. No one speaks officially about the haunting, but many people believe that spirits reside there. Even if all the reports can be explained away logically, they still give one pause. Fort McHenry can be wonderfully eerie, especially when you look into the cells or the quarters and see the places where people resided for long periods. You can get to the fort, located southeast of downtown, but take the Watertaxi instead. When you approach the fort by water, you experience a little of the thrill that Francis Scott Key must have felt when the smoke of rockets and cannons cleared away and he saw that "the flag was still there." For information on visiting Fort McHenry, call 410-962-4290. |
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EDGAR ALLAN POE'S HOUSE |
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| Learn more about Poe right here... http://themagicofbaltimore.blogspot.com/2013/12/edgar-allan-poe.html Poee lived here with his cousin, Virginia, and his aunt, Maria, from 1832 to 1835. While living in Baltimore, he wrote one of his first horror stories, "Berenice," as well as "MS Found in a Bottle," which he submitted to the Baltimore Saturday Visitor, winning a $50 prize. He spent most of his time here at 203 Amity Street |
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DAVIDGE HALL http://medschool.umaryland.edu/davidge.asp |
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| 552 W. LOMBARD STREET is open to the public |
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THE PEALE MUSEUM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peale_Museum |
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It was here that James Taylor's fascination with the bizarre was fueled when Baltimore's Peale Museum hosted a show called "Mermaids,
Mummies & Mastodons." Taylor was enthralled. THE PHOENIX SHOT TOWER   |
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| THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON SALOON |
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| A pub on the last
street before docks, is rumored to have been one of Edgar Allen Poe’s
favorite drinking spots and that he had been walking home from The Horse You Came In On when he
died.
It is also believed that Edgar Allen Poe’s ghost that resides in this pub and is responsible for strange occurrences throughout the bar. |
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| THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT of BALTIMORE |
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| Located on North Charles Street in the wonderful Mount Vernon community, it was designed by Robert Mills who also designed the Washington Monument in DC. Construction ran from 1815 to 1829. The 178 foot doric column holds a ground-floor museum offering information about Washington as well as construction of the monument. It is a climb of 228 steps to the top which provides an excellent view of the city from the historic neighborhood where it is located. |
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| THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT STATE PARK This stone tower was quickly built on July 4, 1827, (To ensure that it was completed before the one in Baltimore City! lol ) by the citizens of Boonsboro, MD who marched to the site en masse after assembling in the town square at 7 a.m. At the end of that day, the tower stood at 15 feet high on a base 54 feet in circumference. Later that year, "after the busy season," workmen returned to complete the tower to a height of 30 feet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_State_Park |
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Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, Baltimore, MD |
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| Designed in the Norman-Gothic
style by Thomas Dixon, a Baltimore architect, Mt. Vernon Place United
Methodist Church was completed in 1872 and stands on the northeast
corner of Charles Street in Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore. Blocks of a
unique metabasalt, a green-toned Maryland fieldstone, were used for the
solid wall surfaces; “true stone” rather than veneer. Windows,
entrances, building edges, and corners are done in brownstone, as is
most of the ornamentation. Aisle roofs slope gradually to a strip of
clerestory above which rises to a sharply peaked roof. This lofty
impression is re-emphasized by three spires. The vertical lines of the
largest spire on the southwest corner of the church echo the lines of
the tall columnar Washington Monument in the center of the square. This
largest spire, and a smaller one on the southeast corner, frame the
south and primary façade. Broad stairs lead to the triple entrance
crowned by a free-standing, glassless, three-point "comb" of Gothic
tracery. Above and behind the "comb," a large rose window ornaments the
wall, recessed within a large pointed arch of brownstone which serves
as a frame for both window and "comb." The western wall as a street
façade adjoins the great spire and runs north in a series of pointed
arch windows separated by thin buttresses. These are applied to the
west wall and taper at a sharp angle toward an entablature below the
aisle roof. Contained in its frieze are a number of distinct and
individual faces, one of which is recognizable as Charles Tireman, a
wealthy Baltimore merchant. North of the west wall a smaller spire
abuts the crossing. The west wall simulates the principal façade,
having a similar brownstone relieving arch enclosing a rather large rose
window. The sharply peaked crossing roof is lower than that of the
nave. The interior is noted for its iron columns, carved wooden beams,
and stained glass Connick cross over the pulpit.
The Mt. Vernon Place U.M. Church is the fourth home of a group from a congregation which officially organized the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States. It has always been deeply involved in the business, professional, and civic life of Baltimore as well as a link with the most important figure in historic American Methodism, Francis Asbury. Its preservation as a contemporary influence is vital to the heart of Baltimore where it stands as one of the four corners of Mount Vernon Place. |
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| Greenmount Cemetery |
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| PEABODY CONSERVATORY |
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| The Conservatory Library |
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| The Gayety Theater at E. Baltimore St. Baltimore, Maryland c1920 Here is a wonderful article posted in Baltimore of less.com By John H. Nickel, The Sun Magazine, 5/31/1970 http://www.baltimoreorless.com/2010/12/burlesque-gayety-theater/ |
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| BALTIMORE RAILROAD MUSEUM |
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| THE BALTIMORE BASILICA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_National_Shrine_of_the_Assumption_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary |
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