Living room, Babe Ruth House

ID: 1949 ~ Source: Flickr ~ Creator: Jim Capaldi ~ Date: 2013 April 28
This file appears in: Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum
Living room, Babe Ruth House
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The living room is designed to show the house as it may have looked in the 1890s when Babe Ruth's parents and maternal grandparents lived there.

This file appears in: Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum

By Eli Pousson
On February 6, 1968, the city paid $1,850 to buy four vacant, vandalized rowhouses on Emory Street—an unusual birthday celebration for famed Baltimore native Babe Ruth. Exactly seventy-three years earlier, George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr. was born at…