On April 24, join us for the first tour of our new series, Light City Baltimore, to experience our city in the evening and in a brand new light! This tour will take us back to the Great 1904 Fire, which destroyed 1500 buildings, left 35,000 people unemployed, and damaged $150 million of property. Rising out of the ashes, resilient Baltimore used the fire to rethink the city, and the downtown we know today is shaped largely by this incident. Join Baltimore Heritage’s Executive Director Johns Hopkins on this special evening tour, and make it a Baltimore night–grab dinner at Kechy Pizza or The Empanada Lady, then catch a show at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater! 

On May 8, come see the lights of downtown Baltimore from the water on an evening boat cruise in our new series Light City Baltimore. We hope you will join us to discover America’s history on Baltimore’s water as the sun sets. Enjoy a drink as you listen to a live-narrated 90-min tour by Baltimore Heritage Executive Director Johns Hopkins and marvel at how the Domino Sugars sign glows from the water! This tour is in partnership with Watermark Journeys. The boat has a cash bar and a bathroom.

As artists for the Spring Bromo Art Walk are throwing open their studio doors, join us on one of our Light City Baltimore tours to learn how the FBI raided the Everyman Theater building, how we kept the lights on at the Hippodrome, and how Civil Rights protests outside of Baltimore’s Ford’s Theatre helped change segregation policies in the city. In addition to artists, this part of town is packed with quintessentially Baltimore landmarks–we’ll see Lexington Market, the Bromo Seltzer Tower, and some of the few remaining cast iron buildings in the city as they turn the lights on. This tour will occur the same night as the Bromo Art Walk and we encourage you to check out the dozens of open art studios before our tour starts!

On June 11, join us for another tour of our new series, Light City Baltimore, to experience our city in the evening and in a brand new light! Beginning in the 1600s, waves of immigrants from England, Germany, and over the last 100 years Sicily, Naples and Abruzzi have defined the place along the banks of the Jones Falls that we now call Little Italy. Join Baltimore Heritage Executive Director Johns Hopkins to learn a little more about the neighborhood’s standouts like bocce ball, St. Leo’s Church, and the power-house residence of Tommy D’Alesandro and his daughter Nancy Pelosi. We’ll also hear a few colorful stories, including about gangster Al Capone’s four month stint in Charm City and our hometown hero Spiro Agnew’s fall from grace. And we’ll finish at Vaccaro’s Italian Pastry shop for a classic sweet treat. Make it a Baltimore night and grab dinner in Little Italy, then walk it off on our tour!