By Eli Pousson
The first "I Am An American Day" parade in Baltimore started at Thirty-third Street and The Alameda on May 17, 1942. The event (and similar marches and rallies across the country) was promoted by the Hearst Corporation, then owner and publisher of鈥�

By Nathan Dennies
John Payne, in his comprehensive 1798 tome, A New and Complete System of Universal Geography, noted the flouring mills along the Jones Falls near Baltimore. At the time, wealthy abolitionist Elisha Tyson owned two of the ten documented mills: one at鈥�

By Eli Pousson
Mosque No. 6, the predecessor of the Masjid Ul-Haqq, first moved into their present building on Wilson Street around 1958. The two-story brick building had most recently housed a automotive garage but it dated back to the 1870s and operated as part鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
Faidley鈥檚 is as much about the people as the seafood. Whether gathered around the store鈥檚 raw bar at one of the stand-up tables near the busy line of workers making crab cakes, customers are often feel like they鈥檙e simply sharing a meal with old鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
Budeke's Paint operated in the same storefront on Broadway from 1870 up until 2018. Unfortunately, in the early morning hours of September 7, 2018 a fire broke out on the first floor and grew into a four-alarm blaze that destroyed the stock, a鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
In 1914, Luigi DiPasquale, Sr., an Italian immigrant to Baltimore, established a small corner store on Claremont Street stocking groceries and household goods for residents in the developing Highlandtown neighborhood. Over a century later, the鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
Founded in 1863 by German immigrants Ludwig Hilgartner and Gottfried Schimpf, Hilgartner Stone has made some of the nation鈥檚 finest stonework for over one hundred and fifty years. Of course, the company has made a unique mark on both Baltimore鈥檚鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
Like the countless seeds the Meyer Seed Company has sold over the past hundred years, the story of this long-running legacy business starts with water. Before he held a seed bucket or a watering can, the company鈥檚 founder, John F. Meyer, worked as a鈥�

By Richard F. Messick
Tochterman鈥檚 ostensibly sells fishing tackle but owners Tony and Dee Tochterman鈥攖he third generation of the Tochterman family to run this Eastern Avenue institution鈥攁re part of a hundred year long history of customer service that few other…

By Eli Pousson
In October 1987, the members of University-Birkwood Association celebrated nearly fifteen years of work on a former parking lot turned green space on Barclay Street. Earlier that year, the small civic organization joined the friendly competition to鈥�

By Eli Pousson
John Stuban moved from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland in 1987 and settled in a small rowhouse on Tyson Street. That same year, a group of New York City activists founded ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). The new organization focused on鈥�

By Gabrielle Clark
Constructed in 1908, Lutherville Colored School No. 24 is a simple two-room schoolhouse located on School Lane. Today, the building operates as a small museum of Maryland鈥檚 Black history and the appropriately named School Lane is a dead-end street鈥�

By Gabrielle Clark
The origins of this two-story frame church on Jefferson Avenue began in 1861 when a group of Black Baltimore County residents established the Saint James African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church. Today, the church is known as the St.鈥�

By Eli Pousson
The Billie Holiday Monument on Pennsylvania Avenue commemorates the life and legacy of the famed "Lady Day" who was born as Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore on April 7, 1915. Billie Holiday's childhood was difficult. Both of her parents were teenagers鈥�

By Eli Pousson
On February 6, 1968, the city paid $1,850 to buy four vacant, vandalized rowhouses on Emory Street鈥攁n unusual birthday celebration for famed Baltimore native Babe Ruth. Exactly seventy-three years earlier, George Herman 鈥淏abe鈥� Ruth, Jr. was born at鈥�

By Nathan Dennies
Hampden Falls, now known as Round Falls, was once part of a dam servicing Rock Mill. Completed in the early nineteenth century and rebuilt several times, it became a popular subject for local artists. The mill was razed in 1930 by Baltimore City鈥�

By The Explore 91视频 team
The Seminary Chapel at the St. Mary's Spiritual Center is a historic gem. Completed in 1808, the chapel was designed by Maximilian Godefroy, the architect of many historically important structures in Baltimore including the Battle Monument and…

By Eli Pousson
The Maryland Penitentiary on Eager Street was completed in 1897, as part of a national prison building boom prompted by reform efforts. The building was designed by architect Jackson C. Gott. Gott served as one of eight founding members of鈥�

By Eli Pousson
Built in 1922, the former Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch No. 19 at 606 South Ann Street was one of a large number of branch libraries that opened in the early twentieth century. Between 1908 and 1920, the Pratt Library opened a new branch every鈥�

By The Explore 91视频 team
The Maryland Institute College of Art was chartered on January 10, 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. Within months, the new school began offering classes and other programs at "The Athenaeum," a lecture…

By Eli Pousson
The Severn Teackle Wallis Statue by French sculptor Laurent-Honor茅 Marqueste was dedicated on January 9, 1906 in the south square of Mount Vernon Place in front of the new building of the Walters Art Gallery. Today, the statue stands in the east…

By Johns Hopkins
The first true brownstone building in Baltimore, today鈥檚 Grace & St. Peter鈥檚 Church opened its doors in 1852 as Grace Church on Park Avenue in Mount Vernon. Architecturally, it was the first church built of stone in the city and with stained…

By The Explore 91视频 team
Built in 1928-1929, Levering Hall is named in honor of Eugene Levering, a local banker. Levering, who served as a trustee for Johns Hopkins University from 1898 to 1928, donated the funds to build a YMCA on land provided by Johns Hopkins鈥�

By Eli Pousson
The Arena Playhouse at 801 McCulloh Street has been occupied by the Arena Players, an African American theater troupe, since December 1961. Established in 1953 as an outgrowth of the 鈥淭he Negro Little Theater鈥�, the Arena Players spent a decade鈥�

By The Explore 91视频 team
Douglas Memorial Community Church was built is 1857 for the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. The building boasts a grand Greek Revival design by architect Thomas Balbirnie with a sanctuary that seats a thousand people and an 鈥渦ndercroft鈥濃��

By The Explore 91视频 team
Baltimore activists have a long history of fighting discrimination and segregation in the city鈥檚 public establishments. In the years after World War II, the NAACP and their allies worked to end segregated seating at Ford鈥檚 Theatre on Fayette Street鈥�

By Eli Pousson
Trinity Baptist Church at the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and McMechen Street tells the story of Baltimore's connections to the national civil rights movement and radical Black activism in the early twentieth century. One of the church's influential鈥�

By The Explore 91视频 team
1621 Bolton Street is the childhood home of Walter Sondheim, Jr.: a local business executive and civic leader who is best known for his role as president of the Baltimore City School Board as the city first sought to put an end to racially…