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Pimlico Race Course: Home of The Preakness

Alfred G. Vanderbilt once said of Pimlico that it is “more than a dirt track bounded by four streets. It is an accepted American institution, devoted to the best interests of a great sport, graced by…

14 West Hamilton Street Club

By Robert J. Brugger

The 14 West Hamilton Street Club, a group of Baltimoreans who enjoy good company, lively conversation, and decent meals, formed in 1925. Young Princeton graduates in the city, eager to continue the…

Perry Hall Mansion

By Johns Hopkins

Erected high on a hill above the Gunpowder River Valley, Perry Hall Mansion dominated life in northeastern Baltimore County in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Built in the 1770s by…

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Literary Heritage in Baltimore

12 Locations ~ Curated by Baltimore Literary Heritage Committee

This tour is produced in partnership with CityLit, the Maryland Humanities Council, Maryland State Arts Council, and the University of Baltimore.

Baltimore's Legacy Businesses

12 Locations ~ Curated by Baltimore Heritage

Discover the varied Baltimore businesses that have survived and thrived and are still going today. Whether you're looking to purchase a fishing pole or ornamental ironwork, you will enjoy this tour of just a few of Baltimore's many historic legacy businesses.

Landmarks from the Movement

26 Locations ~ Curated by Baltimore Heritage

Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage: Looking for Landmarks from the Movement is an ongoing project to research and document the historic context for the long Civil Rights movement for African Americans in Baltimore. This tour features significant places associated with Baltimore's Civil Rights movement including several that are currently threatened with neglect or demolition.

Baltimore Sites & Sounds

6 Locations ~ Curated by Baltimore Heritage and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA)

Discover the history of Baltimore's recent past through highlights from the WJZ-TV archival collection of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive.

Apartment Living

9 Locations ~ Curated by Baltimore Heritage

Discover Baltimore's grand luxury apartment buildings built at the turn of the 19th century into the 20th. The stories of these buildings open a window on to the lives Baltimore's social and economic elites.

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