Another spectacular house on Eutaw Place
Captain Isaac Emerson Mansion from Baltimore Heritage. I encourage you to support them.
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Hawley-Hutzler House in Baltimore
My first apartment was only a block away from this magnificent house. Eutaw Place, in its prime, must have been really elegant, It has mansions and a large median strip.
The Hawley-Hutzler House is located at 1801 Eutaw Place.
Maryland Historical Trust architectural survey
Five walks from the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore
Stanford White buildings in Baltimore
Stanford White was an American architect. His best-known building here is the Lovely Lane Methodist Church. In addition to his buildings, White is famous for how he was murdered.
Another building designed by White is the Ross Winans Mansion (1217 St. Paul St.) shown below in a picture I took in the 1970s.
White designed renovations for the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion which is now the home of the Engineering Society.
Historic American Buildings Survey on the Engineering Society Building (Garrett-Jacobs House, 7, 9, 11, 13 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Independent City, MD)
The Old Goucher College campus has White buildings shown here.
Baltimore magazine articles on Baltimore writers
It also includes bookstores. I highly recommend Charm City Books which is in my neighborhood. I was glad to read that Madison Smartt Bell is fond of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “Babylon Revisited” which is one of my favorites.
Mosby is the latest
There’s a long line of government employees in Baltimore who have been accused or convicted of misconduct. Mayor Catherine Pugh and Mayor Sheila Dixon had to resign because of their misdeeds. City Council President Orlinsky accepted a bribe.
Four female prison guards impregnated by same inmate
Baltimore corrections officers charged with looting convenience store during unrest
Bottle caps were first manufactured in Baltimore
The crown cork bottle cap was first manufactured here in 1892. I first found about this from this Instagram post.
When I grew up in Manhattan, we played skelly, a game with bottle caps with melted crayons in them.
The Copycat Building – see the Instagram posts above and below about a current tenant
Baltimore City’s designated landmark list
the list from the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation
You can buy Cicada Parade-a sculptures
The Ouija board was created in Baltimore
OThe Ouija board was invented by Elijah Bond. He applied for a patent in 1890 and made the board in Baltimore. Bond is buried in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery. His grave was not marked until 2008. The marker shows a Ouija board on the backside.
Pictures of Bond’s grave marker.
Sad! 