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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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Westminster Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

The 18th- and 19th- century cemetery opens through an Egyptian influenced iron entrance gate designed by Maximilien Godefroy. A great number of famous Marylanders are interred here, including many Revolutionary patriots and veterans of the War of 1812. Within the ...

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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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Mother Seton House

The Mother Seton House, built around 1800, was the home of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born woman beatified and canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Although not born Roman Catholic, she converted to Catholicism in 1805, shortly after the ...

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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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Edgar Allan Poe House

"The little house in the lowly street with the lovely name," is how American author, Poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe described the two-bay, two-and-a-half story brick building where he resided from 1833 to 1835. Poe was born in Boston ...

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Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station

The National Historic Landmark Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station is a collection of three interrelated buildings standing on the oldest railroad terminal site in the country. The fledgling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established its headquarters at ...

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