List of Plaques
Bolton Street
1310 Bolton Street – Gerald W. Johnson, historian and journalist whom Adlai Stevenson called “the critic and conscience of the nation
1514 – Franklin P. Mall, M.D., pioneer in embryology and a major shaper of Johns Hopkins Medical School
1604 – John Jacob Abel, M.D., pathfinding pharmacologist and researcher on adrenalin, insulin, and the artificial kidney
Eutaw Place
1208 – William Sydney Thayer, M.D. , much-decorated Chief Medical Consultant to American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and president of the American Medical Association
1210 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States
1300 – Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of Johns Hopkins University and first Director of Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as a trail blazer in American graduate and professional education
1404 – Sidney Lanier, poet (“sweet singer of the South”) and first writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University
1406 – Howard A. Kelly, M.D., pioneer gynecologist and “wizard of the operating room” as well as an early user of radium to treat cancer
1701 – Claribel Cone, M.D., and Etta Cone, major modern art collectors, especially of Matisse, who visited here
John Street
1434 – Garry Moore, early television host
W. Lafayette Avenue
221 – Curt Richter, Ph.D, discoverer of biorhythms/ the biological clock
W. Lanvale Street
127 – Jesse Lazear, M.D., medical martyr: to find the cause of yellow fever he courageously exposed himself to virus-infected mosquitoes and died of the disease, thereby proving the route of transmission
201 – Ernest Stebbins, M.D., 40-year dean of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, where students became citizens of the world, and founder of the American Board of Preventive Medicine as well as advisor to the early World Health Organization
213 – Col. Charles Marshall, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s aide-de-camp at the surrender at Appomattox
225 – Circuit Court Judge Hugh Lennox Bond, stalwart supporter of Lincoln and of Emancipation and later known as “the curse of the K.K.K” for his harsh sentences
232 – William H. Howell, Ph.D., discoverer of the anticoagulant heparin
Madison Avenue
1301 – William H. Halsted, M.D., America’s most influential surgeon, surgical innovator, and teacher of surgery. One of the so-called Big Four, founders of clinical services at the new Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Park Avenue
1307 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night
1314 – Edith Hamilton, classicist author of The Greek Way, and her sister Alice Hamilton, M.D., founder of industrial hygiene and pioneer in removing lead from paint
1316 – William Edwards Stevenson, president of Oberlin College and later of the Aspen Humanities Institute, as well as ambassador to the Philippines. When young, a Rhodes Scholar and Olympic Gold Medalist
1325 – Florence Rena Sabin, M.D., path finding medical researcher, histologist, educator, and reformer of Colorado’s health laws. She is one of the two Coloradans whose statues stand in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol
1729 – Jacob Epstein, innovative wholesaler to the South, collector of Old Masters, philanthropist, and an inaugurator of the system of matching charitable grants
Related Links
- Where the famous lived in historic Bolton Hill, January 08, 2004 by Jamie Stiehm, Baltimore Sun.