Simon Bolivar is frequently referred to as the “George Washington of South America.”
To commemorate the three-hundred year anniversary of Columbus discovering America, a forty-four foot obelisk was erected in Charm City
The sea urchin sits inside a lily pond on the front lawn of the school president’s home.
The Johns Hopkins Monument was finished in 1935 and is made of bronze and marble.
Asked in 1875 to be the first president of Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Coit Gilman left the campus of California University, where he was dean, and accepted his new post in the east.
Welch had little or no concern with his own health, instead concentrating on the conditions of others. He chose study over sleep, food instead of diet, and meditation before activity.
Between 1839 and 1840, Harris was instrumental in starting the first dental college, the first society for dental surgeons, and the first dental publication, the American Journal of Dental Science.
Unveiled in 1936, the Monument is the work of Baltimore’s Hans Schuler. After studying at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, he traveled to France with fellow artists to continue his studies.
First Prize for winning the 19th Triennial National Saengerfest, a German cultural festival focused on choral performances, in 1900, was a bronze bust of composer Richard Wagner
Noah Walker, a Baltimore businessman, had the statue installed in a niche within the facade of his West Baltimore Street clothing business, at what came to be known as the Washington Building
William Wallace is one of several monumental figures dedicated within the bounds of Baltimore City to the cause of freedom, independence and the sovereignty of a people.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Baltimore’s 1729 town charter, the citizens and government threw an elaborate party and parade. One of four Lady Baltimore Statues.
The bronze and granite monument to Watson was installed in 1903 by the Maryland Association of Veterans of the Mexican War and was created by Maryland’s own Edward Berge
This was created by Albert L. Van den Berghen in 1901 and is made out of bronze.
This monument is dedicated to two Maryland winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor during service in World War I: Charles Hammann, of the US Navy, and Henry Costin, a private in the Army.
Charles Marburg gave $25,000 to his brother Theodore Marburg to hire a sculptor to create a monument to Francis Scott Key. The sculpture was restored and rededicated on September 11, 1999.
Dedicated in 1925 to the soldiers of Maryland’s Fifth Regiment that lost their lives in World War One, To the Glory of Maryland graces the front of Baltimore’s historic armory building.
Be sure to check out the Peace, Force, and Order statues on the other corners. Built in the late 1850s.
Built in the 1850s, the War, Force and Peace are all connected with the Order statue.
Be sure to check out the other 3 statues; War, Order and Force. All four were built in the late 1850s.
The famous Lafayette Monument was created by Andrew O'Connor, Jr. out of bronze in 1924.
Daniel Wells and Henry McComas were apprentice saddle makers in Charm City during the War of 1812. Lame? Read more in the link! Leggi tutto.
The original Sea Urchin, now located at Johns Hopkins University, was created by Berge in 1924, and installed at Mount Vernon Place in a fountain in front of the Washington Monument
Made out of bronze, this statue was erected in 1904 by Emmanuel Fremiet.
Depicts John Mifflin Hood, Confederate general and early president of the Western Maryland Railroad.
This monument dates from 1990 and is by artist Tylden Streett, who taught for a time at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Dedicated on November 2, 1908, the statue stands outside the Clarence Mitchell Jr. Courthouse on St. Paul Street downtown. Artist: Albert Weinert.
The eighteen layers of the marble base represent the eighteen states that made up the United States at the time of the war.
Dedicated on May 30, 1972, this monument to African-American servicemen slain in the protection of their country is by artist James E. Lewis. Paid for by an anonymous donor.
Now known as Shot Tower Park, the small tract of land across the street from Police Headquarters contains one of the largest installations in honor of fallen officers in the United States
Two Baltimore businessmen and philanthropists, Melvin Berger and Jack Luskin, donated funds for the monumental flame
The cannon monument was dedicated in 1914 during the centennial celebration of the Star-Spangled Banner.
Given to the City by the United Singers of Baltimore in 1915, the Conradin Kreutzer statue was won, by the group, in a singing contest that same year
The statue is located in Baltimore, on a plaza between Russell Street and Washington Boulevard, just northwest of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Dedicated October 8, 1984 by Mayor of Baltimore William Donald Schaefer and President Ronald Reagan, the statue depicts the history-making explorer who discovered the New World.
Dedicated on November 19, 2000, the Katyn Memorial commemorates the 22,000 estimated Polish military officers, police, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war executed by the NKVD, in 1940
The urn contains soil from military cemeteries around the world. The monument was rededicated on March 31, 2003, as part of the Orioles opening day ceremonies.
The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a Baltimore clipper topsail schooner named The Chausseur which fought in the War of 1812 under privateer Thomas Boyle.
Frederick Douglass was sent here to work for the brother of Captain Auld after he made an attempt to escape slavery.
The Pagoda, originally known as the Observatory, was designed in 1890 by Charles H. Latrobe, then Superintendent of Parks.
This memorial consists of 56 stones, each with the signature, occupation and hometown of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The staging area for John Brown's ill-fated, pre-Civil War raid on a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry. Brown was viewed as a martyr for the cause of freedom.
Star-Spangled Site: This Park is the site of the Circular Battery that helped to repel the British night flanking offensive during the Battle of Baltimore in September, 1814.
Star-Spangled Site: This monument is in memory of Aquila Randall of the Mechanical Volunteers, 5th Regiment of the MD Militia, who fell in a skirmish preceding the Battle of North Point in 1814.
Star-Spangled Site: Local resident John O'Neill was abandoned by his militia and left to face the British alone when they raided Havre de Grace (1813). He was honored & made keeper of the lighthouse.
