The Carriage Gates of Westminster Burying Ground

Westminster's carriage gates, completed in 1815, were among the nation's first examples of Egyptian Revival architecture. Commissioned by the First Presbyterian Church, the gates were designed by Maximilian Godefroy (1765-ca.1840), a French architect who spent 15 productive years in Baltimore.

First Garden Club

1891

Founders’ Memorial Garden which commemorates the founders of America’s first garden club. The Ladies Garden Club organized in 1891, Athens, Georgia. This garden was developed on University of Georgia campus by University’s Landscape Architecture Department and the Garden Club of ...

A Monument to the Memory of Edgar Allan Poe

"My idea in designing this monument was to produce something simple, chaste, and dignified, to strike more by graceful outlines and proportions than by crowding with unmeaning ornament."

George A. Frederick, ca. 1874

The November 1875 unveiling of the Poe Monument culminated ...

George J. Heisely Residence and the National Anthem

In the building at the northwest corner of N. Second and Walnut Streets lived George J. Heisely (1789-1880) who was a Harrisburg mathematical instrument and clockmaker. Heisely had joined the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia's First Brigade during the ...

University of Maryland Memorial Chapel

Erected as a memorial

and

dedicated October 12, 1952

to those

University of Maryland

men and women

who gave their lives

in the service of

their country

Marker is at the intersection of Regents Drive and Chapel Drive, on the left when traveling north on Regents Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Westminster Hall & Burying Ground:

Where Baltimore's History Rests in Peace

Welcome to Westminster Burying Ground, one of Baltimore's oldest graveyards and the burial place of Edgar Allan Poe. This introduction is the first of many interpretive signs describing Westminster's origins and significance, and some ...

The Historic District of Titusville

Named for the family of settler Joseph Titus, who established two sawmills and a fishery here in the 1700's, Titusville was a major industrial and transportation center in the mid-19th century. Spurred by the construction of the Delaware and Raritan ...

Georgetown - Pride of the Sierra / Growlersburg / E Clampus Vitu

Georgetown

Pride of the Sierras

Georgetown was founded in 1849 by George Phipps, a member of a party of sailors prospecting for gold, who first pitched his tent near the head of what is now known as Empire Canyon. George's town quickly ...

Locomotive Club of Richmond

In 1852, Joseph and Elizabeth Tyree owned this 400 acre tract of land known as "Woodstock." After changing hands several times, the Locomotive Club of Richmond purchased 208 acres of the property and built this clubhouse in 1925. Through the ...

Westminster Church and Cemetery

Originally called the Western .... Here lie the graves of Revolutionary patriots, veterans of the War of 1812, and many of Baltimore's most distinguished ... including Mayor James Calhoun, Colonel James McHenry, and General Samuel Smith. ... international importance is ...