Baltimore Heritage

With 6500 square feet of space loaded with rare hardwoods, gold leaf, and leaded windows, the Mt. Vernon mansion of Thomas Courtney Jenkins and his wife Louisa is a stunning peek into how Baltimore’s elite lived during the Gilded Age. The Jenkins family is one of the oldest in Maryland. There were Jenkins who fought at the Battle of North Point in the War of 1812, Jenkins who founded the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad and Western Maryland Railroad, and Jenkins who directed the Mechanics Bank and the Baltimore Fire Insurance Company. The family members who lived at 106 East Chase Street were Thomas Courtney Jenkins, his wife Louisa Carrell Jenkins, and their five children. Thomas and Louisa, life-long supporters of the Catholic Church, are perhaps best known as the inspiration for the creation of Corpus Christi Church. Upton their death, their five children provided them a lasting honor by contributing the land and funds to establish the Jenkins Memorial Church, now called Corpus Christi, in Bolton Hill.

The Jenkins Mansion on East Chase Street is now for sale, and lucky for us the real estate agent for the seller, Ms. Julie Canard, is a Baltimore Heritage member who has kindly offered to show us in. Please join us for a look inside of one of Baltimore’s grandest houses, and one of its best preserved. With an asking price of $2.4 million, it sparkles today as brightly as it did in the Gilded Age.