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Mother Seton House and the St. Mary's Seminary Chapel

Photograph of the north elevation of Mother Seton's House by E.H. Pickering, July 1936.<br /><br />
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Image courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS MD,4-BALT,18B--1.

On June 16, 1808, Elizabeth Bayley Seton arrived at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore on the same day that Bishop John Carroll, the first bishop in the Unites States, dedicated the seminary's newly built chapel. Elizabeth came to Baltimore from New…

Tags: Bishop John Carroll, Catholicism, Maximilian Godefroy, Paca Street, Seminary, Seton Hill

Basilica of the Assumption

Photograph of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Baltimore, Cathedral Street by E. H. Pickering, August 1936.<br /><br />
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Image courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS MD,4-BALT,41--1.

Built primarily between 1806 and 1821, the Baltimore Basilica was the first Cathedral erected in the United States. Bishop John Carroll, America's first bishop and a cousin of Charles Carroll of Declaration of Independence signing fame, led the…

Tags: Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Bishop John Carroll, John Latrobe

All Stories: 2

Mother Seton House and the St. Mary's Seminary Chapel

Basilica of the Assumption

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