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Mount Vernon Place Historic District

Mount Vernon Place Historic District is comprised of four rectangular parks-- East and West Mount Vernon Place and North and South Washington Place. These garden parks, and the houses that line them, form the setting for the Washington Monument, the ...

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Cathedral Hill Historic District

Located at the corner of Cathedral and Mulberry Streets, the Baltimore Basilica, officially known as the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was the first Roman Catholic Cathedral built in the United States, and ...

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Wilkens-Robins Building

The Wilkens-Robins Building (also known as the Robins Paper Company) was constructed in 1871. It stands as a silent reminder of a once-vibrant industrial area composed of numerous cast-iron buildings adjacent to the area now occupied by the Baltimore Convention ...

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Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower

The Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower has been a Baltimore landmark since its construction in 1911 as the tallest building in the city. The tower was built by Capt. Isaac Emerson, the inventor of the headache remedy Bromo-Seltzer, and designed by Joseph ...

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Loft Historic Districts

The Loft Historic Districts (North and South) are located near the University of Maryland Campus in downtown Baltimore. The Districts are architecturally significant for their massive, brick vertical manufactories that date from 1870 to 1915 and represent the finest collection ...

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St. Mary's Seminary Chapel

Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971, St. Mary's Chapel was constructed for the Suplician priests of St. Mary's Seminary, and is the oldest Roman Catholic Seminary in the United States. Built between 1806 and 1808 by the notable American ...

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Bolton Hill Historic District

The Bolton Hill Historic District is a residential neighborhood with 20 blocks of relatively unaltered buildings dating from the second half of the 19th century. Although the area was originally open farmland, northward development from the city and the construction ...

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Pascault Row

This handsome row of eight three-and-one-half story dwellings is Baltimore's last remaining example of early 19th-century townhouses. In 1819, wealthy merchant Louis Pascault built the rowhouses, now called Pascault Row. They represent an important phase in the evolution of the ...

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Old Pine Street Station

The Old Pine Street Station, or Western District Police Station was built between 1877 and 1878. Designed by Francis E. Davis, it is an elaborately decorated, High Victorian Gothic building. The Baltimore Police Department constructed the building to improve working ...

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Rieman Block

In April of 1880, Joseph Rieman began accumulating land at the southwestern edge of Lexington Market for an eight-unit, block-long,commercial and residential development. Established in 1782, Lexington Market is the City's oldest and most famous public market and, during the ...

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