Thank you to everyone who joined us last month at the Baltimore Design School for our annual Preservation Awards Celebration. Special thanks to Melissa Gerr who volunteered to capture a few great photographs of the evening. Enjoy!
Thanks to Steve Earley for sharing these great photographs of our Barclay by Foot tour led by Jenny Hope from the Telesis Corporation! Enjoy his whole set on Flickr and get inspired to join us for another upcoming Baltimore by Foot walking tours this spring.
Special thanks to photographer Amy Davis for sharing her photographs from our recent tour of the Parkway Theater with Jed Dietz, Director of the Maryland Film Festival. Amy has been documenting historic movie houses around the city her upcoming book, “Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters.”
You can share your memories of the Parkway and any Baltimore theaters on the Flickering Treasures Facebook page or contact Amy directly at flickeringtreasures@yahoo.com. Learn more about the project with a “It’s More Than History” brown bag lecture with Amy Davis on Friday April 25, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm at Baltimore City Hall.
Our second day of remote sensing at Patterson Park continued despite the snow! Thanks to Fieldwork Director Greg Katz for sharing this shot of Dr. Tim Horsley using his high-resolution magnetometry equipment to search for the traces of the 1814 earthworks. Learn more about our We Dig Hampstead Hill project.
Thanks to G. Krug and Son Ironworks for sharing this neat shot from the ongoing restoration of the Washington Monument. Tons of brick and marble make up this 178-foot tall icon—all supported by the stone and brick arches down in the “basement.”
