| Baltimore Monuments
: Baltimore's best known and tallest monument has to be the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon. Located at the intersection of North Charles Street and Monument Street, the monument can be seen for miles around. But Baltimore has plenty other "lesser known" monuments around town, which we would like to present to you as well. |
| Washington Monument Mt Vernon , Baltimore City Charles Street & Monument Street ..........
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| Battle Monument Calvert and Fayette Streets Downtown Baltimore City ..................................................................................................
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| Fallsway
Monument Guilford Avenue and Biddle Street Before the JFX expressway came along in the 1960's, it was The Fallsway covering up the stream known as the Jones Falls, on the bottom end where the expressway today curves around ( just south of Chase Street ). Baltimore had a massive road & sewer project back in the 1920's known as the Fallsway, which included a curvy roadway, with part of the roadway still existing along side of the Expressway. When it was built, a monument was erected on the northern part of the road. While Fallsway is little more than a smaller downtown street today, the monument still stands today. The image on the ( right below ) is located southeast of the monument, next to Central Bookings, at Monument Street. .......
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Key Monument Francis Scott Key Monument Eutaw Place and Lanvale Streets Eutaw Place in the 1920's was a boulevard which had gardens in the center and large rowhouses on each side. At the intersection of Eutaw and Lanvale Streets, the Francis Scott Key Monument stands. |
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Reese
Monument - Lake Clifton High School Not far from" On The Trail " Monument, the Reese Monument sits in front of Lake Clifton High School. The monument had been located in front of Eastern High School (the 33rd Street school) for years before it was moved to it's new location. There's word the monument will be moving it's way back to the old Eastern High School on 33rd Street in the near future. |
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Martin Luther
Monument Hillen and 33rd Street - SE Corner Northeast Baltimore City , Maryland Located in a small park just south of Lake Montebello, a monument of Martin Luther stands. |
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| Armistead
Monument ( Circa 1828-1882 ) Federal Hill Park South Baltimore City Located in Federal Hill, The Artistead Monument can be seen at the right in this turn of the century postcard. The tower seen behind the Monument has long since been torn down. |
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Union Soldiers
and Sailors Monument 29th and North Charles Street ( Charles and Wyman Park ) Erected in 1909, this monument can be found on the Northwest corner of Charles Streets and 29th Street . .....................................................
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Lee - Jackson
Monument ( Circa
1948 ) Civil War Monument Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive Baltimore City, Maryland Located on the Southeast corner of Wyman Park Drive and Art Museum Drive. ...................................
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Women's Monument Civil War Monument North Charles Street and University Parkway North Baltimore City, Maryland |
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McComas Monument War of 1812 Monument Monument Street and Aisquith Street .....................................
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| Columbus Monument Harford Road and Walther Blvd Northeast Baltimore City The Columbus Monument can be seen in the postcard below on the campus of the Samuel Ready School, on the Northeast corner of Harford Road and North Avenue. That campus was razed years ago for a Sears Store, and the monument was moved to the Hamilton Section of Baltimore. .................................................................
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Pulaski Monument
( Circa 1951 ) Revolutionary War Patterson Park Southeast Baltimore City , Maryland |
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| War Monuments |
World War I : There are several World War Monuments still located in Baltimore that I have found. The image on the right is a monument located in Carroll Park in Southwest Baltimore. The markers below are located in Druid Hill Park, just north of the entrance to the Baltimore Zoo. |
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| World War II : In the late 1940's, Baltimore City had over 50 monuments to World War II service men. The first was dedicated on April, 25 1943 at the intersection of Payson Street and Ramsey Street in Southwest Baltimore. The granite Monument has a flagpole on one side of the plot, and was in honor of men in that area who had served or been lost in the War . That monument still stands and can be seen below. |
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| Nearby at the intersection
of Wilkens and Gilmor, a 10' tall monument was erected and dedicated
on June 17, 1945. This monument was made out of Indiana Limestone ( We
have been unable to locate that one to date, but we are still looking
) . At the intersection of Frederick
Road and Brunswick Street, there had been a plot of land which was to
serve as a monument, but that was torn down in the late 1940's. It was
replaced by a monument , a 8' tall granite shaft, honoring Southwest Baltimore
Citizens who served or died in WWII. That monument was dedicated on April
28, 1948, in Gywnn Falls Park, at the Dukeland Street entrance of the park.
The West Baltimore Post 476 VFW at 2550 McHenry Street converted the old Leydecker Mansion into a " living memorial " to the War's Dead. At York Road and Bellona Avenue in Northern Baltimore City, 5 bronze plaques were put up and dedicated in July 1947, with the names of soldiers from the Govans Area. |
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| Above , the Govans Monument
to W.W. II , located at the intersection of York Road and Bellona Avenue
( on the triangle, northwest corner ) . Erected in 1947, to those
in the Govans neighborhood who died fighting War World II. |
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old Marine Hospital ,( above left ) a monument was
dedicated on September 30, 1945, for those servicemen from the Remington-Wyman
Section of Baltimore City. It was constructed out of Butler's Stone,
which was brought in from Baltimore County. |
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