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
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
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
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
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
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
Concert pianist and musicologist, he founded the music history department at the Peabody Conservatory, where he taught from 1985-2011. — — Map (db m154837) HM
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 medicine — — Map (db m154831) HM
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
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
Capitalist cooper purchased the captain John O'Donnell estate 3000 acres in Canton in 1920 and helped in funding the Canton Company of Baltimore that acted as a real estate and development company in transforming the Canton Company into a . . . — — Map (db m190368) HM
Clifton Mansion was the summer residence of Quaker merchant Johns Hopkins. In founding the Johns Hopkins University, Hospital, and Medical School, Hopkins transformed higher education, medicine, and the City of Baltimore. He became the first . . . — — Map (db m189862) HM
When leaders of First Presbyterian Church decided to build an new church atop their 18th-century burying ground, they hoped to serve Baltimore’s growing west end and protect their burial place from being diverted to other uses.
Construction . . . — — Map (db m2413) HM
In 1882, the merchant Enoch Pratt, wishing to make a gift to his adopted city which would benefit all of her citizens, gave Baltimore $1,058,000 to establish a public library.
The original building fronted on Mulberry Street. Designed by the . . . — — Map (db m5561) HM
In 1882, the merchant Enoch Pratt, wishing to make a gift to his adopted city which would benefit all of her citizens, gave Baltimore $1,058,000 to establish a public library.
The original building fronted on Mulberry Street. Designed by the . . . — — Map (db m166958) HM
“My library,” Enoch Pratt said, “shall be for all, rich and poor without distinction of race or color, who, when properly accredited, can take out the books if they will handle them carefully and return them.” In 1886, with . . . — — Map (db m88270) HM
Harry S. Cummings was the first African American elected to the Baltimore City Council.
Born in Baltimore, Cummings received his primary education in Baltimore City public schools. He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and earned . . . — — Map (db m202976) HM
Has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935. This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States U.S. . . . — — Map (db m6304) HM
This house was built by Rembrandt Peale in 1814 as a Natural History Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts. Robert Carey Long was the Architect. Purchased by the City of Baltimore, 1830, Jacob Small being Mayor, it was occupied as the City Hall from . . . — — Map (db m6307) HM
This structure is the oldest museum building in the United States. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Sr. for Rembrandt Peale, the museum opened to the public in 1814 as "an elegant Rendezvous for taste, curiosity and leisure." For a 25-cent admission . . . — — Map (db m6305) HM
The Westside of Downtown Baltimore boasts an astonishing variety of architectural styles from early 19th century Federal townhouses to Reconstruction-era cast-iron facades to Art Deco storefronts. The one-time heart of the City, the Westside's . . . — — Map (db m115207) HM
Founder in 1755, Zion Church is the oldest Lutheran congregation in Maryland. German Lutherans began settling in Baltimore Town shortly after it was laid out in 1730. Relying on itinerant preachers from Pennsylvania, the small struggling community . . . — — Map (db m2714) HM
Over the years, the Round Cage housed bears and, later, hyenas. The animals were kept as if in a fishbowl, on a concrete slab with no shelter or privacy. The Round Cage has long since been abandoned as suitable housing for any species. . . . — — Map (db m189039) HM
The Maryland Building was originally constructed in Philadelphia as Maryland's state exhibition hall for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, the first World's Fair held in the United States.
After the fair, the building was disassembled, . . . — — Map (db m189048) HM
An 1865 inventory of the Baltimore Zoo listed "9 deer, 4 swans, 3 wild geese and 24 ewes." By the 1880s still more creatures, including bears were exhibited in ornate but small Victorian cages. In those days animals were seen as objects of . . . — — Map (db m189026) HM
Sojourner-Douglass College was established in 1972, in Baltimore, Maryland as the Homestead Montebello Center of Antioch College. The idea was conceived under the leadership of the first president, Dr. Charles W. Simmons, in response to the . . . — — Map (db m145935) HM
The striking architecture of Baltimore’s original Dunbar High School complements the school’s role in community empowerment and educational equality. Dunbar’s educators, students, and alumni worked to achieve the “equal” in the “separate but equal” . . . — — Map (db m101610) HM
Founded on this site and dedicated to the greater Glory of God • Loyola College and High School.
Erected in honor of our Loyola War Dead and to commemorate one hundred years of growth.
[Captions:]
Holliday St 1852 • . . . — — Map (db m237123) HM WM
In joyful recognition of LeRoy E. Hoffberger's unique role as co-founder with Rebecca Hoffberger of the American Visionary Art Museum, and for his lifelong extraordinary and passionate leadership as both humanitarian and cultural philanthropist, . . . — — Map (db m202979) HM
Lady Maryland is an authentic reproduction of a Chesapeake Bay pungy schooner. Beginning in the early 19th century, pungies were considered to be among the fastest of all Bay watercraft, and were frequently used to carry perishable . . . — — Map (db m219646) HM
Sigsbee is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, a vessel designed and built specifically to dredge for oysters on the Bay. Once numbering in the thousands, only a handful of skipjacks survive today. Together, they constitute the last sailing . . . — — Map (db m219651) HM
Frederick Douglass is one of the best-known Americans of the 19th century. Schools, churches and other community buildings across the United States have been named after him. Known for bravery, vision and insightfulness, Douglas fought for the . . . — — Map (db m168908) HM
Our mission:
Living Classrooms Foundation is a nonprofit organization that strengthens communities and inspires people to achieve their potential through hands-on education and job training, using urban, natural, and maritime resources as . . . — — Map (db m219653) HM
In 1998, Living Classrooms Foundation constructed the Rouse-Flick Learning Tower next to the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Education Center. The 75-foot Learning Tower is a living classroom for hands-on education and a memorial and tribute to the . . . — — Map (db m219654) HM
The Maritime Park and Museum, one of many Living Classrooms Foundation facilities, opened in 2006 and uses our motto "Learning by Doing" to engage visitors through interactive displays, hands-on activities and special programs. The . . . — — Map (db m219599) HM
The Maritime Park and Museum, one of many Living Classrooms Foundation facilities, opened in 2006 and uses our motto "Learning by Doing" to engage visitors through interactive displays, hands-on activities and special programs. The . . . — — Map (db m219642) HM
Norman Reeves, a member of the Baltimore City Council, was an active opponent of the expressway. A Leaking Park trail is named in his memory.—Barbara Mikulski, an activist social worker and Fells Point resident, and later City Council member, . . . — — Map (db m103766) HM
Here at Interstate 70, this hiking and biking trail runs 15 miles through nearby Franklintown and the Gwynns Falls valley to the Inner Harbor in downtown Baltimore and the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. The . . . — — Map (db m114588) HM
Leakin Park provides tennis courts, playgrounds, sports fields, picnic facilities, and woodlands for year-around public use. This property was once a part of Thomas de Kay Winans’ country estate, Crimea, purchased by the city in the 1940s with . . . — — Map (db m102631) HM
This plaque commemorates the site of Broadway School (Public School 109). The building was designed by prominent Baltimore architect Francis E. Davis and constructed in 1876. An example of the innovative "open plan" developed by J. J. Husband for . . . — — Map (db m224364) HM
Church Home and Hospital and the Church Home and Hospital Nursing Alumnae Association celebrates 142 years of compassionate care to the infirmed, injured and aged.
“We won’t forget the ensign on the hill” Dedicated April 30, 2000. — — Map (db m102835) HM
Dr. William V. Lockwood was the first Vice President Emeritus of Baltimore Community College. His vision, uncompromising work ethic, and life long devotion to educational advancement made him instrumental in transforming the dream of the Harbor . . . — — Map (db m115221) HM
On the wall above this sign, on the roofs of the Science Center and the parking to your right are solar panels that contain many photovoltaic (PV) cells. These PV cells convert light from the sun directly into electricity.
The PV cells are . . . — — Map (db m103094)
Living Classrooms Foundation strengthens communities and inspires people to achieve their potential through hands-on education, job training, and wellness programs using urban, natural, and maritime resources as "living classrooms."
Since . . . — — Map (db m219560) HM
Living Classrooms Foundation strengthens communities and inspires people to achieve their potential through hands-on education, job training, and wellness programs using urban, natural, and maritime resources as "living classrooms."
Since . . . — — Map (db m219561) HM
Lady Maryland
The Lady Maryland is an authentic replica of a pungy schooner, a Chesapeake Bay workboat that sailed the Bay in the 1700s and 1800s. Pungies were fast sailing vessels and were primarily used to transport perishable cargo such as . . . — — Map (db m6126) HM
Here is the scion of the storied apple tree which is believed to have led to Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of the law of gravity. A gift from John Astin, A&S, '52, and Valerie Sandobal Astin, this sapling was derived from a tree at the National . . . — — Map (db m166983) HM
The grassy hill in front of you was once the front lawn of Homewood house, later part of the estate of William Wyman. In the late 1890s, Wyman rented the house to the Country School for Boys. Imagine young students and their families wandering . . . — — Map (db m194783) HM
The Merrick Barn was originally built in 1802 as a carriage house or stable for Homewood house. Since the university acquired the land in 1902, the building has been repurposed many times.
For most of the 1900s, students worked and played in . . . — — Map (db m194801) HM
Scholar • Teacher • Man of vision and untiring energy • A pioneer organizer of professional dentistry • The first dental college in the world • Founded in Baltimore • 1839 • — — Map (db m166996) HM
Named for Alonzo G. Decker, Jr. and his wife, Virginia, in honor of the couple's decades of generosity and service to the University. The Baltimore-born son and namesake to one of the founders of Black & Decker Corporation, Alonzo Decker . . . — — Map (db m166994) HM
With his 1873 bequest, Johns Hopkins created a university and hospital grounded in research and charged with advancing human knowledge through discovery. This monument celebrates the visionary donors who have built on his generosity, transforming . . . — — Map (db m166995) HM
The Gatehouse provided a stunning impression for those visiting William Wyman's estate in the late 19th century. Wyman owned much of the land that is now Homewood campus. He loved nature and kept the grounds mostly undeveloped. The two major . . . — — Map (db m166970) HM
Over 100 years ago, Duncan S. Johnson, Professor of Botany in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University, envisioned building a greenhouse with accompanying botanical gardens. His mission was to provide students with a place to further . . . — — Map (db m166991) HM
Property purchased in 1800 by Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence, as a wedding present for his only son, Charles and bride Harriett Chew of Philadelphia. The younger Charles designed and oversaw the building of the . . . — — Map (db m18315) HM
Newlyweds Charles Carroll Jr. and Harriet Chew Carroll began construction of Homewood in 1801. The 130-acre property had been a wedding gift from Charles' father, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and one . . . — — Map (db m194803) HM
In 1801 Charles Carroll Jr. (1775-1825) began building Homewood, a fashionable summer retreat on 130 rolling acres of farmland that afforded a view to Baltimore's harbor. Built at the same time as the house, this small square structure with a . . . — — Map (db m166989) HM
Named for William Keyser who was the moving force behind the donation of the Homewood property to Johns Hopkins. He contributed 62 acres and also organized the donation of other land by Samuel Keyser, Francis M. Jencks, William H. Buckler, . . . — — Map (db m6122) HM
Over 200 years ago, an orchard grew here. Even before he completed work on Homewood house, Charles Carroll Jr. established pear, apple and peach trees on the property. In 1801, he complained "my blundering gardener" let the cow "get into the . . . — — Map (db m166986) HM
The spring house or dairy, originally situated over a small spring, was designed to keep perishables such as milk cool in interior troughs of spring water. It was located at Oakland, the country estate of Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1827), . . . — — Map (db m18326) HM
This plaque presented by
The Class of 1958
as a memorial to their commencement
June tenth
in which there participated
Dwight David Eisenhower
President of the United States
and
Harold MacMillan
Prime Minister of Great . . . — — Map (db m166971) HM
A place is what we make it. In 1898, William Wyman discussed plans with his cousin William Keyser to donate land to Johns Hopkins University and the city of Baltimore. Wyman recognized the need to support an advancing university in search of a . . . — — Map (db m166992) HM
Named for William Wyman, who gave 60 acres of the Homewood estate to Johns Hopkins University in 1902. By deeding his portion of Homewood to the burgeoning university, Mr. Wyman sought to protect the land he loved from the encroachment of the . . . — — Map (db m166977) HM
More than thirty years before the Civil War, when blacks and women were generally viewed as property, Father James Joubert and Elizabeth Lange founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence—a religious order of black women dedicated to educating the . . . — — Map (db m102852) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m7071) HM
Born into an affluent family in Haiti, Mary Elizabeth Lange fled to escape a revolution. She settled in Baltimore, where by 1818 she was educating black children in her own home. In 1828, Mary Elizabeth helped start the first black . . . — — Map (db m212266) HM
Raised in New York high society, Elizabeth married a wealthy businessman, but was left a penniless widow with five children when his business failed and he died of tuberculosis. Elizabeth converted to Catholicism in 1805. To support her children and . . . — — Map (db m212265) HM
Robert was educated by Jesuits and entered the society in 1460. After teaching Greek, Hebrew and Theology in Louvain, Florence and Mondovi, he was sent to teach at the Roman College. He became Rector in 1592, Provincial of Naples in 1594 and was . . . — — Map (db m212250) HM
Born in England, Robert entered the Society of Jesus in 1578 and was ordained in Rome in 1585, where he briefly served as Prefect of Studies at the English College. Robert was nearly arrested on his return to England, but eluded capture and spent . . . — — Map (db m212264) HM
The trefoil copper cross previously graced the top of the Octagon Building, the original structure of Mount St. Agnes College in Baltimore's Mt. Washington area.
Mount St. Agnes College was founded in 1867 by the Sisters of Mercy, a Catholic . . . — — Map (db m212267) HM
First President of Johns Hopkins University. First director of John Hopkins Hospital. A pathfinder in American graduate and professional education. — — Map (db m6559) HM
"Wizard of the operating room." First Johns Hopkins Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics. First head of gynecology, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Early user of radium to treat cancer. — — Map (db m6565) HM
"God opened my mouth and no man can shut it." With this firm belief in God and herself, "Ma" Jackson achieved extraordinary success in securing equal rights for blacks in Baltimore and Maryland. Born in 1889, she began fighting for black equality . . . — — Map (db m6562) HM
Poet, musician and scholar, "The Sweet Singer of the South." First writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University. Teacher at Eutaw Place School. Author of The Boys' King Arthur. — — Map (db m6563) HM
One of America's most influential surgeons. Surgical innovator and teacher. First Johns Hopkins Professor of Surgery. First head of surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital. — — Map (db m6547) HM
Much decorated Chief Medical Consultant to American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. President of the American Medical Association. Fourth Johns Hopkins University Professor of Medicine. — — Map (db m6554) HM
Coming to this house as a Hopkins Ph.D. candidate was the first step towards Princeton University's presidency, New Jersey's governorship and the White House. — — Map (db m6558) HM
The University of Baltimore dedicates this garden to the memory of all those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01, especially those who were members of our UB community:
Joseph V. Maggitti, B.S. '75
Seamus Oneal, M.S. . . . — — Map (db m130518) WM
In 1903, the Belvedere Hotel became the crowning architectural achievement in the neighborhood. Its signature thirty-five-foot mansard roof has become the symbol for upper Mount Vernon. In the late 1970s, the building was rehabilitated into . . . — — Map (db m102915) HM
Transforming Mount Royal Station captured his imagination. Fostering art, artists, and community captured his creativity. Strengthening the College has become his legacy.
Frost Plaza Names in gratitude for his contributions to shaping . . . — — Map (db m102743) HM
With the 1960s renovation completed, the station became a point of pride once again--for Baltimore and for MICA. It was an important factor in the college’s regional accreditation and the further growth of its enrollment and reputation. The . . . — — Map (db m170974) HM
This sculpture was commissioned as part of the exhibition Celebrating Rinehart organized by ARTSCAPE '96, curator, Cindy Kelly, the Maryland Institute, College of Art and the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore on the 100th . . . — — Map (db m219563) HM
In 1923, flags at black schools across Baltimore flew at half-mast to mourn the death of Joseph Lockerman. Nicknamed “Moses” for his leadership and quite dignity, he grew up in Caroline County, where two white teachers noticed and . . . — — Map (db m101498) HM
Lucille Clifton lived in West Baltimore from 1967. She became poet-in-residence at Coppin State University in 1971. By 1974, she had published two important collections of poetry that focused on black urban life at a very personal level. The . . . — — Map (db m101478) HM
Born in Haiti in 1784, Elizabeth Clovis Lange immigrated to Baltimore where she taught children of French-speaking black immigrants. In 1829, she formed the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the nation’s first black Catholic order, and guided it through . . . — — Map (db m101479) HM
Under the leadership of Booker T. Washington, Gabriel B. Mattox, Sr., set up the first print shop at Tuskagee Institute in Alabama. In 1907, Maddox migrated to Baltimore, where he opened a print shop on Druid Hill Avenue in West Baltimore. In 1954, . . . — — Map (db m101480) HM
In 1917, Morgan State College (now University) moved to its current location. Dr. John O Spencer, the fourth University President, had a vision of a community for Morgan faculty and other Black professionals. At the time, restrictive Jim Crow laws . . . — — Map (db m228789) HM
A 1989 graduate of Morgan State University, Ryan began her journalism career as a reporter for the school's campus radio station's WEAA-FM. Just a decade later, Ryan was named the White House correspondent for a Washington bureau chief for the . . . — — Map (db m145922) HM
Carnegie Hall (1919) is the oldest building on Morgan's campus and is named for Scottish American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who in 1915 made an original and conditional grant of $50,000 for the erection of the central academic building. The . . . — — Map (db m145928) HM
Born: June 11, 1924 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: October 27, 1993 - Baltimore, Maryland
Morgan State Head Football Coach: 1960 - 1973
Morgan State Director of Athletics: 1970 - 1983
Football Coaching Record at MSU: 96 wins, 31 . . . — — Map (db m145932) HM
Born: February 12, 1900 - Brookneal, Virginia
Died: March 24, 1989 - Baltimore, Maryland
Morgan State Head Football Coach: 1929 - 1959
Morgan State Track and Field Coach: 1929 - 1970
Morgan State Director of Athletics: 1958 - 1970 . . . — — Map (db m145931) HM
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