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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Bolton Hill, Maryland

 
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1 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — 29th Division AssociationCenter Haute Meuse 1917-Sector Alsace Argonne 1919
On Howard Street at Dolphin Street on Howard Street.
Charles Hazeltine Hammann Ens Air Service U.S. Navy March 16, 1892-June 14, 1919 Henry Gilbert Costin Pvt. Co. H, 115TH Inf., 29th Div June 15, 1898-October 8, 1918. Ensign Hammann rescued a fellow pilot by landing his seaplane on a . . . Map (db m101516) WM
2 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Anne Morris Owings1889 - 1959
On John Street.
Advocate for the disabled. She founded and directed the Mary Lea Studio, a workshop of the Baltimore League for Crippled Children and Adults.Map (db m154846) HM
3 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Archibald Coleman Rogers, FAIA
On Lanvale Street.
Archibald Coleman Rogers, FAIA 1917-2001 Founding Partner of the global architectural firm RTKL. President of the American Institute of Architects. First Executive Director of the Greater Baltimore Committee. He played a vital role in revitalizing . . . Map (db m142896) HM
4 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Christine Ladd-Franklin, Ph.D.1847-1930
On Park Avenue.
A logician, mathematician, and psychologist, she developed a new theory of color vision. She was the first woman to complete Ph.D. requirements at Johns Hopkins, in 1882, although because of her gender, the University did not confer the degree until . . . Map (db m154833) HM
5 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Colonel Charles Marshall1830-1902
On West Lanvale Street at Jenkins Street, on the right when traveling east on West Lanvale Street.
Chief of Staff to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. Later a political reformer and one of nineteenth-century Baltimore's "Seven Great Lawyers."Map (db m6460) HM
6 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Confederate Soldiers and Sailors MonumentReconciling History — Baltimore's Confederate Monuments
On Mount Royal Avenue. Reported permanently removed.
During the Civil War, approximately 60,000 Marylanders fought for the Union and 25,000 fought for the Confederacy. After the war, Confederate sympathizers erected monuments such as this one to recognize Confederate soldiers and sailors and to . . . Map (db m101761) WM
7 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Curt Richter, Ph. D. / Gary Moore1894-1988 / 1915-1993
On West Lafayette Avenue near Bolton Street, on the right when traveling east.
. . . Map (db m6476) HM
8 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Edith Hamilton / Alice Hamilton, M.D.1867-1963
On Park Avenue south of West Lafayette Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Classicist author of The Greek Way. A leader in women's day-schooling First headmistress of Bryn Mawr School. *** Alice Hamilton, M.D. 1869-1970 Founder of industrial hygiene, pioneer in removing lead from paint. Harvard's first woman . . . Map (db m6466) HM
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9 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Ernest Stebbins, M.D.1901-1987
On West Lanvale Street at Park Avenue, on the right when traveling east on West Lanvale Street.
Early advisor to the World Health Organization. New York City Health Commissioner. Long time dean of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.Map (db m6581) HM
10 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — F. Scott Fitzgerald1896-1940
On Park Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Author of The Great Gatsby (1925). Works published while he resided here: Tender is the Night (1934), Raps At Reveille (1935), and essays (1934-1936) later collected in The Crack-Up.Map (db m6473) HM
11 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland
On West Lanvale Street.
Welcome to the Memorial Garden of Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland. In Honor of Families and Children and their strivings to succeed-enter to enjoy, reflect, celebrate, remember and heal. Established September 3, 1998 on the . . . Map (db m101956) HM
12 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Florence Hochschild Austrian / Robert Austrian1889 - 1979 / 1917 - 2007
On Eutaw Place.
Artist and community activist. Leader in the renovation of Eutaw Place Developer of the pneumococcal vaccine. Winner of the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research AwardMap (db m154848) HM
13 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Florence Rena Sabin, M.D.1871-1953
On Park Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
First woman full professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Introducer of techniques for staining living cells. Reformer of Colorado's health laws. Her statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.Map (db m6475) HM
14 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Frances Morton Froehlicher1912 - 1995
On Bolton Street just east of McMechen Street, on the right when traveling east.
Housing and city planning advocate. Published a seminal study of Baltimore neighborhoods. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association. Co-founder of the Better Air Coalition.Map (db m142890) HM
15 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Franklin P. Mall, M.D.1862-1919
On Bolton Street, on the right when traveling south.
First Johns Hopkins Professor of Anatomy. After 1914, also first Director of the Department of Embryology at Washington's Carnegie Institution, where he pioneered embryological research.Map (db m6480) HM
16 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Garry Moore1915-1993
On John Street, on the right when traveling south.
Born Thomas Garrison Morfit, he was an early host and star of 1950s and 1960s television variety shows, including I've Got a Secret and The Garry Moore Show.Map (db m6589) HM
17 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — George W. Rayner HouseCirca 1879
On Bolton Street, on the right when traveling south.
George Rayner (1854-1884), lawyer and one of Baltimore's wealthiest men, was the first to call this home.Map (db m6579) HM
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18 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Gerald W. Johnson1890-1980
On Bolton Street.
Journalist, historian and biography. His political commentary, in print and on television, led Adlai Stevenson to call him "the critic and conscience of the nation."Map (db m6478) HM
19 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Gloria VictisConfederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument
On Mount Royal Avenue. Reported permanently removed.
Gloria Victis-To the Soldiers and Sailors of Maryland in the service of the Confederate States of America. 1861-1865 {The front of the base of the monument}Map (db m62306) WM
20 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Hans Froehlicher, Jr.
On Bolton Street.
Hans Froehlicher, Jr. 1891-1976 Civic educator and activist. Headmaster of Park School. Co-founder and President of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association. With his wife Frances, founded the Better Air Coalition.Map (db m142891) HM
21 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Hugh Lennox Bond1828-1893
On West Lanvale Street, on the right when traveling east.
Stalwart supporter of President Lincoln and of Emancipation. Chief Judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court, where he was nicknamed "The Curse of the K.K.K" for his harsh sentences.Map (db m6462) HM
22 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Jacob Epstein1864-1945
On Park Avenue.
Innovative wholesale merchant to the South and collector of Old Master paintings. As a philanthropist, he inaugurated the system of matching charitable grants.Map (db m6568) HM
23 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Jacob J. Abel, M.D.1857-1938
On Bolton Street, on the right when traveling south.
Pioneer researcher on adrenalin, insulin, and the artificial kidney. First Professor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. For 40 years the leading pharmacologist in America.Map (db m6569) HM
24 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Jesse Lazear, M.D.1866-1900
On West Lanvale Street, on the right when traveling east.
Johns Hopkins researcher in Cuba. To find the cause of yellow fever he courageously exposed himself to virus-infected mosquitoes and died of the disease, thereby proving the route of transmission.Map (db m6583) HM
25 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Lanvale Memorial Garden
On Rutter Street at West Lanvale Street, on the right when traveling north on Rutter Street.
Dedicated to the loving memory of Dr. Joseph J. Costa Chief of Critical Care Medicine Mercy Hospital who died while unselfishly treating those with COVID 19 July 25, 2020Map (db m212327) HM
26 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Laurance Page Roberts / Isabel Spaulding Roberts
On Bolton Street (Route BALTIIM).
Laurance Page Roberts 1907-2002 Director of the Brooklyn Museum, the American Academy in Rome, and the New York State Council on the Arts, Scholar of Japanese art. Isabel Spaulding Roberts 1911-2003First woman Director of the . . . Map (db m142863) HM
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27 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Mergenthaler House
On West Lanvale Street, on the right when traveling east.
From 1894 to 1899, this house was the residence of Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German immigrant who revolutionized the art of printing with his invention of the Linotype. Previously a typesetter searched for a single character, then placed it in a line . . . Map (db m6582) HM
28 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Mildred Dyke Atkinson1909 - 2014
On Bolton Street.
Housing and civil rights advocate. Field Secretary of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association. Director of Christian Social Relations for the Maryland Council of ChurchesMap (db m154845) HM
29 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Neighbors and Natives
On Dolphin Street at Bolton Street, on the right when traveling west on Dolphin Street.
William Gailes Contee and Edward Wilson Parago, Sr. Contee-Parago Park is one of the first City parks to be named after Black Baltimoreans: Edward Wilson Parago, Sr. (1898-1983), a postal worker, and William Gailes Contee, an upholsterer . . . Map (db m212325) HM
30 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Otto Frederick Kraushaar, Ph.D.1901 - 1989
On Park Avenue.
President of Goucher College. He led the effort to establish Goucher as a nationally-recognized women's college.Map (db m154835) HM
31 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Piero Ernesto Weiss, Ph.D.1928 - 2011
On Bolton Street.
Concert pianist and musicologist, he founded the music history department at the Peabody Conservatory, where he taught from 1985-2011.Map (db m154837) HM
32 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Soterios "Buddy" Pappas1915 - 2001 — Bolton Hill Historic District —
On West Lafayette Avenue near John Street, on the right when traveling west.
Southern States heavyweight champion professional wrestler. A pioneer art director in early television, his Baltimore team created the hit children's show Romper Room.Map (db m212888) HM
33 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — The Cone Sisters
On Eutaw Place, on the right when traveling north.
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34 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — The Md. Prince Hall Masons
On Eutaw Place at West Lanvale Street, on the right when traveling north on Eutaw Place.
"The Md. Prince Hall Masons acquired this Temple from the congregation of Oheb Shalom, November 1960, built by them in 1891." Williard W. Allen, Grand Master Emeritus Samuel T. Daniels, Grand MasterMap (db m6551) HM
35 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Thomas Bourne Turner, M.D.1902 - 2002
On Park Avenue.
Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School if Medicine. He performed important research on yaws, syphilis and polio. In his 75-year association with Hopkins, his career spanned the modern history clinical and academic medicineMap (db m154831) HM
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36 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Thomas J. O’Neill
On Park Avenue.
Thomas J. O’Neill 1849-1919-Founder of O’Neill & Company Department Store. He left the business to his employees. He bequeathed the funds that built Good Samaritan Hospital and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.Map (db m142861) HM
37 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — Thomas Ward / Joyce Ward1927 - 2016 / 1929 - 2011
On Bolton Street.
Founders of the Irish Railroad Workers Museum and ardent preservationists. Their efforts helped save Baltimore's historic neighborhoods and parks.Map (db m154842) HM
38 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — William Edwards Stevenson1900-1985
On Park Avenue.
Boyhood home of the President of Oberlin College and head of Aspen Humanities Institute. Ambassador to the Philippines. Olympic Gold Medalist for the 1600 meter relay in 1924.Map (db m6468) HM
39 Maryland, Baltimore, Bolton Hill — William H. Howell, Ph.D.1860-1945
On West Lanvale Street, on the right when traveling south.
Discoverer of the anticoagulant heparin. First Professor of Physiology and early Dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Second director of the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.Map (db m6464) HM
 
 
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Apr. 23, 2024