City Hall Plaza

ID: 1871 ~ Source: University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) ~ Creator: Hughes Company ~ Date: c. 1918
This file appears in: War Memorial Building
City Hall Plaza

The City Hall Plaza, later War Memorial Plaza, decorated for a WWI Peace Celebration.

This file appears in: War Memorial Building

By Eli Pousson
In 1919, the Governor of Maryland and the Mayor of Baltimore appointed a War Memorial Commission that initiated a nationwide architectural competition to design a memorial building dedicated to the 1,752 Marylanders who died in military service…