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St. Mary's Seminary Chapel

Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971, St. Mary's Chapel was constructed for the Suplician priests of St. Mary's Seminary, and is the oldest Roman Catholic Seminary in the United States. Built between 1806 and 1808 by the notable American ...

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Pascault Row

This handsome row of eight three-and-one-half story dwellings is Baltimore's last remaining example of early 19th-century townhouses. In 1819, wealthy merchant Louis Pascault built the rowhouses, now called Pascault Row. They represent an important phase in the evolution of the ...

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Old Pine Street Station

The Old Pine Street Station, or Western District Police Station was built between 1877 and 1878. Designed by Francis E. Davis, it is an elaborately decorated, High Victorian Gothic building. The Baltimore Police Department constructed the building to improve working ...

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Rieman Block

In April of 1880, Joseph Rieman began accumulating land at the southwestern edge of Lexington Market for an eight-unit, block-long,commercial and residential development. Established in 1782, Lexington Market is the City's oldest and most famous public market and, during the ...

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Edgar Allan Poe House

"The little house in the lowly street with the lovely name," is how American author, Poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe described the two-bay, two-and-a-half story brick building where he resided from 1833 to 1835. Poe was born in Boston ...

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Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station

The National Historic Landmark Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station is a collection of three interrelated buildings standing on the oldest railroad terminal site in the country. The fledgling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established its headquarters at ...

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Franklin Square Historic District

In 1839, James and Samuel Canby of Wilmington, Delaware, donated a two-and-one-half acre park to the city for $10,000. The city agreed to widen the surrounding streets and landscape this park, later named Franklin Square. It was common in the ...

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Union Square - Hollins Market Historic District

Begun during the influx of English, Irish and German immigration of the 1830s, the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District is a dense area of rowhouses that includes Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles. To the west, Union Square Park ...

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St. Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum

For history buffs, there is a circa 1710 blunderbuss. For popular culture fans, there's Jack Sparrow's sword.

At the Pirate Museum in downtown St. Augustine, you can stand on the deck of a replicated pirate ship, light a reproduction of ...

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Kingsley Plantation

From a singular past that includes the story of one woman’s path from slave to slave owner, Jacksonville’s Kingsley Plantation now welcomes visitors to a place of solitude, retreat and reflection.

The two-mile-long, sandy dirt lane that leads visitors to ...

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