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SUMMARY:The Evolution of Windy Gates Estate and its Olmsted Gardens (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:The Windy Gates country estate of the Jenkins family from 1882 to 1981 was the centerpiece of a much larger property that in its heyday\, lolled down the rolling hills stretching along Lake Avenue from Roland Avenue to Falls Road. On the heels of their work on the Roland Park neighborhood to the south\, the Olmsted Brothers were employed from 1902 through 1906\, to do extensive landscaping design for the property\, producing a detailed plan for the estate and specifications for approximately 150 different planting beds. \nWhen the heirs wished to sell the unique 20-acre property forty years ago\, they offered a unique contest awarded to the developer presenting the most inspired and pleasing plan. Based on designs prepared by Peterson and Brickbauer Architects\, the Azola Company was selected to redevelop the site into the Devon Hill Residential Community. They saved much of the historic landscaping\, converted the historic Queen Anne-style country house and its carriage house and barns into condominium units and residential homes\, and added additional residential buildings in keeping with the scale and historic character of the site. \nThis presentation by Thom Rinker will draw on the extensive material\, vintage drawings\, and photographs found in the records of the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site\, the Library of Congress\, the Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens\, the Jenkins family archives\, and the surveying firm of S.J. Martenet & Company. He will share unique insights into this Baltimore County treasure that still retains a quiet serenity and gentility over the landscape. \nThis special program is hosted in partnership with the Maryland Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects in celebration of their 50th anniversary and the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL) as part of their Olmsted 200 programming\, a nationwide celebration of the firm’s work and influence\, on the Bicentennial Anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth. \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER: \nThom Rinker and his wife lived in Devon Hill for over 15 years and is the author of a recently released three-volume book set entitled Devon Hill: The Pleasure of Living in an Historic Landscape. The books present a detailed narrative of the evolution of the landscape and architectural history of the property as it has evolved over its 175 years. Volume I covers the 100-year period the Jenkins family and its decients owned Windy Gates\, Volume II covers the subsequent period after 1983 when the Devon Hill community has maintained and enhanced the property\, and Volume III contains a review of the correspondence\, field notes\, and landscape plans in the Olmsted Brothers’ project files. \n  \nABOUT THIS SERIES: \nThe Baltimore Architecture Foundation and Baltimore Heritage\, Inc. have been hosting this Friday Virtual Histories Series of live lunchtime presentations and virtual tours since the start of the pandemic as a way to share an understanding of architecture\, preservation\, and history of the Baltimore region with the public. Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support these organizations to help make up for lost tour and program revenue from the pandemic and create more virtual programs like this. \nUpon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link\, please contact mhudson@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance. \nHope you can join us!
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/the-evolution-of-windy-gates-estate-and-its-olmsted-gardens-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T130000
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SUMMARY:No Ball Playing: Baltimore Kids Playing in Streets and Hanging on Corners (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:Before the early 1900s\, families in Baltimore never had to tell a kid to “watch out for cars”. However\, as the number of cars in the city grew during the early 20th century\, playing in the street became increasingly dangerous and even illegal. Criminalizing children at play has a long history in Baltimore from complaints in the Sun about young “baseball maniacs” breaking windows in the 1870s to a 1898 police order designed to “disperse” children from gathering on newly “smoothly paved streets to play.” In 1910\, the Children’s Playground Association of Baltimore formed a “Guild of Play” to host supervised street play at locations around the city and started working to keep children safe through building more playgrounds. Despite their efforts and others\, more than one in three East Baltimore youth surveyed in 2017 said they didn’t have or didn’t know of any safe place to play in their neighborhood. \nJoin planner and historian Eli Pousson for a lunch-time talk on the history of street play and the policing of children in public space from the 19th century through the present-day. \n  \nAbout the speaker \nEli Pousson is a local historian\, former Baltimore Heritage staff member\, Bikemore board member\, and INSPIRE Planner for the Baltimore City Department of Planning (since June 2022). Eli is also a parent of three busy kids that give him plenty of opportunities to visit playgrounds\, play in the street\, and shout “watch out for cars”. \nPlease see your email confirmation for instructions on how to get the Zoom Link for this program. If you have any questions\, please email mhudson@aiabalt.com.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/no-ball-playing-baltimore-kids-playing-in-streets-and-hanging-on-corners-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T130000
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SUMMARY:Frederick Douglass\, the Canton Company\, and Canton History
DESCRIPTION:What started out as a volunteer effort to clean up trash on Canton’s waterfront led Dr. Raymond Bahr on a path of research that has brought to light where Frederick Douglass escaped from his enslavement\, how the Canton Company shaped Baltimore\, and the national impact that Canton’s industries had on the growth of America. Join Dr. Bahr as he shares his research and findings on this under-told part of our history \n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\n\nPlease see your email confirmation for instructions on how to get the Zoom Link for this program. If you have any questions\, please email mhudson@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance. \nThe Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture\, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. \nTickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/frederick-douglass-the-canton-company-and-canton-history/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221216T130000
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SUMMARY:Examining Forced Labor at the Northampton Iron Furnace through Archaeology (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:From the 1760s to the 1820s\, convicts\, indentured servants\, and enslaved peoples worked and died producing and forging iron at the Ridgely family’s Northampton Iron Furnace outside of Baltimore. The iron was crucial to the growth of the British Empire\, the American Revolution\, and the building of the town of Baltimore. By using and controlling people who were marginalized in society\, the Ridgely family was able to exploit their labor and lives to generate considerable wealth and political power. Archaeologist Adam Fracchia will present the findings of his archaeological work at the furnace and discuss the structure of labor relations and the experience of workers at the furnace. \nPlease see your email confirmation for instructions on how to get the Zoom Link for this program. If you have any questions\, please email mhudson@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance. \nThe Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture\, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. \nTickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/examining-forced-labor-at-the-northampton-iron-furnace-through-archaeology-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Baltimore\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T130000
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SUMMARY:Baltimore & Boston: Frame Suburbs and Rowhomes (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:The center of Boston\, with skyscrapers and row houses\, looks like Baltimore. But 99% of Boston’s neighborhoods look really different. To find out why\, Charlie Duff\, former BAF President and author of The North Atlantic Cities\, shows how the building cultures of the two cities came to be what they are – and how two “Men with a Mission” succeeded\, and failed\, to change the way the people of their cultures built houses. \n  \nAbout the Presenter: \nCharles Duff is a planner\, teacher\, developer\, and historian. Since 1987\, Mr. Duff has been President of Jubilee Baltimore\, a non-profit group that has planned some of Baltimore’s most successful neighborhoods and built or rebuilt more than 300 buildings. A graduate of Gilman\, Amherst\, and Harvard\, he has been President of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation. His book The North Atlantic Cities was published in the UK in 2019. \nUpon registering\, you will receive an email confirmation to request a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link\, please contact Meghan Hudson (mhudson@aiabalt.com). If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/baltimore-boston-frame-suburbs-and-rowhomes/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160424
CREATED:20230206T214343Z
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SUMMARY:Baltimore's Early Trade with China (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:John O’Donnell initiated trade between Canton\, China and Baltimore in 1785\, operating his own merchant sailing vessels. While the Baltimore-China trade was short-lived\, it involved many of our early Founding Fathers. On February 24\, join John Danz to learn how the trade propelled Baltimore’s development as a major East Coast port. \nAbout the Speaker: \nJohn Danz\, Jr.\, is a native of Baltimore\, Maryland. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in European history. John has lectured widely on the subject of America’s early trade with China based on more than three years of research. His focus has been on Maryland’s experiences in the China trade from the viewpoint of both the decorative arts and economics. Mr. Danz served as Vice President of Towson University’s Asian Arts & Culture Center for more than fifteen years and currently serves as Vice President of the State of Maryland’s Sister States program for Anhui Province\, China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nUpon registering\, you will receive an email confirmation to request a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link\, please contact Meghan Hudson (mhudson@aiabalt.com). If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/baltimores-early-trade-with-china-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T130000
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SUMMARY:Being Literate\, Being Free (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:Despite the harshness and cruelty that slavery inflicted on people of color\, whether they were enslaved or free\, these people derived creative methods to learn to read and write as an essential first step toward freedom. \nFrederick Douglass said that it was through reading that he first heard “the silver trump of freedom.” Thus\, it was literacy\, the ability to read\, write\, and understand information\, that showed Douglass and countless other blacks the pathway from slavery to freedom. \nThrough her Virtual Histories webinar Being Literate\, Being Free\, Dr. Joanne Martin will highlight historical personalities for whom literacy was the key to a future of freedom and hope for a people who were coming to understand that “If you would keep a people enslaved\, refuse to teach them to read”. \n  \nMeet the Speaker  \nDrs. Elmer and Joanne Martin founded The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum in Baltimore\, over thirty years ago. \nThe Museum is the nation’s first wax museum concentrating on black history\, life and culture. It is a national attraction and has been featured on major television networks (CNN\, NBC\,BET\, etc.); magazines (Jet\, Essence\, Black Enterprise\, etc.); and newspapers (The Washington Post\, New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, etc.). \nDr. Joanne Martin received a BA from Florida A&M University\, Tallahassee\, Florida; MA degrees from Atlanta University\, Atlanta Georgia and Case Western Reserve University\, Cleveland Ohio: and her PhD from Howard University\, Washington\, DC. \nA noted historian\, educator and researcher\, she performs most of the Museum’s curatorial duties and has laid the groundwork for both architectural and exhibition design for the expanded Museum. Her principal role is to ensure the intellectual integrity of all interpretive materials and approaches\, particularly relating to exhibition concepts\, storyline\, and texts. She also provides guidance and direction to the Museum Educator in identifying curriculum-appropriate educational programming for k-12 students and alignment with U.S. and State of Maryland curriculum standards. \nUpon registering\, you should recieve an email confirmation with a link to request the Zoom link. If you have any questions\, please contact Meghan Hudson at mhudson@aiabalt.com at least one hour before the start of the event.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/being-literate-being-free-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T130000
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SUMMARY:Ghost Signs of Baltimore
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever noticed the fading signs painted on buildings all around Baltimore and wondered what they used to say or why they were on a certain building? They are called ghost signs and photographer Lashelle Bynum has been meticulously researching and documenting them over the last few decades. She has photographed nearly 300 ghost signs in Baltimore to date. Please join us to hear Lashelle talk about her quest to discover and uncover the history of Baltimore’s ghost signs. \nMeet the Speaker \nLifelong Baltimorean Lashelle Bynum is a photographer and researcher of her city’s ghost signs and Black history. She is also a board member of Baltimore Heritage and has contributed as a guest in several of the organization’s Five Minute Histories videos. \nUpon registering\, you will receive an email confirmation to request a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link\, please contact Meghan Hudson (mhudson@aiabalt.com). If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/ghost-signs-of-baltimore/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T133000
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CREATED:20230227T155943Z
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SUMMARY:Baltimore's Road Wars (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:On April 28\, join historian and author Ev Paull as he discusses his book\, Stop the Road\, an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore’s epic 40-year battle over expressway plans. Meet the unsung heroes\, a ragtag band of neighborhood activists\, preservationists\, and environmentalists who saved Baltimore from its own leadership\, thereby protecting Baltimore’s historic waterfront communities of Federal Hill\, Fell’s Point\, and Canton. But that glorious and unlikely win must be tempered with the equally compelling but inglorious story behind the disastrous Highway to Nowhere. This is Baltimore unmasked and laid threadbare for the most momentous decisions since the building of the B&O Railroad. \n  \nMeet the Speaker \nNorthwest Baltimore resident E. Evans Paull spent 45 years as a city planner working in Baltimore and nationally on urban redevelopment issues. He began his career in the Baltimore City Department of Planning as a generalist planner before specializing in the redevelopment of brownfields. After starting and managing Baltimore’s Brownfields Initiative\, he tackled these same issues at a national level\, working first for Northeast-Midwest Institute before becoming director of the National Brownfields Coalition and finally running his consulting business\, Redevelopment Economics. Although now retired\, many of his published articles and papers still appear on the Redevelopment Economics website. \n  \nUpon registering\, you will receive an email confirmation to request a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link\, please contact Meghan Hudson (mhudson@aiabalt.com). If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/baltimores-road-wars-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T133000
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SUMMARY:LGBT Activism in Charles Village (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:Charles Village\, adjacent to Johns Hopkins University and long the home of civically and politically active residents\, was also the home of many of the earliest LGBT activists during the 1970s and 1980s. On Friday May 12 at 1:00 p.m. join Baltimore Heritage volunteer Richard Oloizia on a virtual tour through Charles Village to learn about early efforts in Baltimore to build a more open LGBT community. \n  \nMeet the Speaker \nRichard Oloizia is a historian\, a former Enoch Pratt Free Library employee\, and an LGBT leader in Baltimore. He has lead LGBT heritage walking tours for Baltimore Heritage for over a decade. \n  \nUpon registering\, you will receive an email confirmation to request a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link\, please contact Meghan Hudson (mhudson@aiabalt.com). If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/lgbt-activism-in-charles-village-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230714T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230714T133000
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SUMMARY:Coming to Baltimore: Immigrants Old and New (Virtual Talk)
DESCRIPTION:It is a little known fact of our history that Baltimore served as America’s third largest port of entry during the Great Wave of Immigration from 1830 to 1924\, when 1.5 million immigrants first set foot on American soil in our city. They included people from all over Europe\, including Germans\, Irish\, Jews\, Poles\, Lithuanians\, Czechs and Italians\, who established neighborhoods\, as well as churches\, schools\, cultural and philanthropic societies\, which eased the transition from their old country. Ethnic savings and loans extended mortgages to their compatriots\, enabling them to purchase modest rowhouses\, with percentages of homeownership as high as 75% for some groups. In the 1920s\, Congress passed restrictive immigration laws\, prompting the Great Migration. Thousands of people from the rural South and Appalachians\, both Black and white\, journeyed to Baltimore to find work in Baltimore’s industries. In 1965\, Congress liberalized our immigration laws\, and immigrants from Latin America and Asia settled in our country and in our region. The Baltimore Immigration Museum\, located in a building which was an immigrant boarding house in Locust Point\, celebrates the rich diversity of those who made the lengthy journey to our region. \nMeet the Speaker \nNicholas Fessenden earned a B.A. in History at Yale\, and an M.A. and Ph.D in 1972 from Columbia University\, also in History. He taught History in the Upper School at Friends School of Baltimore (1972 – 2010)\, as well as History at Maryland Institute of Art (1981 – 2000) as an adjunct. Since retirement in 2010\, he has taught at CCBC/Owings Mills and at the Osher Institute at Towson University. He serves on the board of the Baltimore Immigration Memorial\, which opened a museum in Locust Point two years ago\, chronicling Baltimore’s immigration history. We at the museum have welcomed visitors from the public at large\, as well as from schools\, colleges\, universities\, retirement communities and genealogical societies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nUpon registering\, you will receive an email confirmation to request a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link\, please contact Meghan Hudson (mhudson@aiabalt.com). If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program\, we cannot guarantee admittance.
URL:https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/coming-to-baltimore-immigrants-old-and-new-virtual-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks,Virtual
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