The Ivy Hotel

ID: 1985 ~ Source: Baltimore Heritage ~ Creator: Eli Pousson ~ Date: 2018 May 23
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The Ivy Hotel
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A round turret at the southeast corner of Biddle and Calvert Streets makes The Ivy Hotel stand out from the block of rowhouses to the south.

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By Johns Hopkins
The historic Ivy Hotel got its start in the late nineteenth century when a prominent Baltimore banker named John Gilman commissioned a mansion in Mount Vernon for the princely sum of $40,000. Gilman died before the building's completion in 1889,…