.........................................................................................Baltimore City seal, in stone
.....................................................Baltimore City Stone Faces
..............................................................................stone Baltimore City seal
All over Baltimore, on the older architecture of the City, you can find examples of stone work that is impressive. Here is a collection of what Kilduff's has found, so far.......... ( 9-20-2009 )
..............................City College Baltimore Stone Face
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..............................Baltimore City College
....................Baltimore City College
Updated 9-20-2009
Baltimore City College :  Above are the stone faces of Buckler and Fenhagen . They are located on the entranceway of Baltimore City College in Northeast Baltimore City. .Both are located on the front of Baltimore City College, located at 33rd and the Alameda.
Not quite sure who the two bottom images are ? Anyone ?
Below : The owl, the symbol of knowledge, being embraced by the gargoyle, on the front of Baltimore City College. The trim of the building has what appear to be squirrels eating nuts.
.................................Baltimore City College Stone work
..............................Baltimore City College Stone Work
   Not to be outdone, designers on the west side of the City put plenty of stone details into the design of the Western High School, on McCulloh Street, built in 1896.  ( Just for the record, this building was built years before the City College Building on 33rd Street )
.....stone work Westner High School Baltimore
..........Stone work , Western High School Baltimore
.................................................................Stone work Westner High School Baltimore
The 1700 block of Guilford Avenue has several old stone faces to look at. Just two blocks south of North Avenue, the old factory building has the above face staring at you from the trim. What could best be described as a Mayan Indian look, this stone face is also on the front of the old factory in East Baltimore.

.............stone face guilford avenue baltimore

.............1700 Guilford Avenue Baltimore

.............Baltimore stone face

..............Baltimore stone face 1700 uilford Avenue
( Below left ) This stone face is just above the loading dock on the building. It's not the years that has made this face so scary looking, but it was likely intended to keep unwelcome vistors out of the building.  At the roof line ( Below right ), just above the date stone of the building, is this wild face.
.................scary stone face Baltimore
..............1700 Guilford Avenue , Baltimore Maryland
Located in West Baltimore is this stone monk, at the right side of the entrance of the old Frederick Douglass High School on Calhoun Street. The monk appears to be writing while holding a candle. On the left side of the doorway at the old Douglas High School, this barefoot stone subject appears deep in reading. Several other Baltimore City schools from the era also have stone tablets, including Baltimore City College on 33rd Street, and the old Western High School on Gywnns Falls Parkway. Below those pictures, two stone characters I missed for many years further up on the buildings facade. On the North corner, a figure is looking into a book, while the figure on the southside of the building is looking at a globe.
.......Douglas High School , Calhoun Street
................Douglas High School , Calhoun Street ,Baltimore
......................Frederick Douglas High School
................................Frederick Douglas High School
In East Baltimore, there is an entire block of houses that have stone work down on the entranceways. Each stone is different, and quite detailed. The very first house in the block  has this stone face. I can't tell if he's laughing or in pain. The final house on the block has this much relieved looking face. I tend to wonder if the stones tell a story.


.......Stone doorway, Baltimore Maryland
.............Baltimore stone doorway
.............Stone doorway Baltimore

.............Baltimore Stone doorway



........Baltimore stone doorway
..............Baltimore stone doorway
Just one block to the west of the " Stone Faces row " in East Baltimore, there is another odd sight at the entranceway to a apartment building at the corner of Broadway. This colorful entranceway , complete with stained glass as a door ornament that appears to have a western theme to it, a steer's head with a "V"  below it. Anyone happen to know the story about this one ?
.............Broadway Cowboy Entranceway


..............East Oliver Broadway stone Work Baltimore
One of the patterns from the middle of the block. End houses have always costs more, as you get a bigger lot and side windows, but could the stones have also been a selling point for these houses ? Another of the mid-block stones. Several of the homes are vacant, and it appears one stone has already been taken, or atleast is currently missing. Sadly, these homes aren't always well kept up. You can clearly see the stone on this boarded up house in the block . 

........................Keyhole entranceway , Baltimore
...............Keyhole entranceway Baltimore Maryland
 A keyhole doorway, minus the fancy corner stone, located in West Baltimore City. This is the only one on West Baltimore I have been able to locate, so far. I believe the doorway in the red ( above ) was recently taken down.The East Baltimore neighborhood that has an entire block with the keyhole entranceways.  Each doorway also has a " fancy stone", each with a different pattern on it.
Not quite as fancy, but interesting none the less, are the door ornaments you can find all over the City, just above the doorway.



.........Baltimore stoneway
Just above the entranceway of a closed scool at East North Avenue and Wolfe Street, East Baltimore City.
 ..................Stoneway Baltimore
...................Exotic design above a doorway in West Baltimore


..............Baltimore stoneway
............A woman's head graces a doorway in East Baltimore.
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.....Baltimore stoneway
..........................West Baltimore doorway 

...................................................................Baltimore stoneway
.................................................................Stonework found on Hollins Ferry Road, in South Baltimore.


.............Baltimore stoneway
.............Woman's head over a doorway in West Baltimore City.

.............Baltimore stoneway
....Odd looking face over a doorway of a rowhouse, I believe this one was also in West Baltimore.

....Walking Boy Stone doorway Baltimore
.....What appears to be a boy walking along, carrying a large bag.
.................Baltimore Stoneway 2008
.........................Leaf design, West Baltimore City.
In order of appearance, a lion head peeks out of the facade of a home on North Eutaw Street. The bas relief next to that image can be found on a closed up industrial building in East Baltimore near Chester Street. The stone bust below that picture is on the same building, at the entranceway. I am happy to report someone removed the bike tire that was around the stone since this picture was taken. Finally, a stone Coca Cola bottle on the old distributing plant on Kirk Avenue, in Northeast Baltimore.
............Lion stone Work , Baltimore Maryland

...............East Baltimore Industrial Stonework

.............Coca Cola Stonework, Baltimore Maryland
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Kilduff's first started out as a web site devoted to Baltimore movie theatres, and below you can find some of the stone work of the old Town Theatre in downtown Baltimore. The building recently underwent renovation, but at this point, has not reopened. Below that, two odd stone heads on the old Pabst Beer packing plane on South Charles Street. Stone work on a row house on East North Avenue, near Calvert Street can be seen below that and the doorstone of the old Southwestern Police District house on Pratt Street at Calhoun, with the buildings construction date of  1883 listed.
.....................................................................Stone work on the Town Theatre Baltimore

......   ....Pabst Building, South Baltimore Stone faces
.....................Baltimore Pabst Building Stone faces

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( Below ) The Reese Monument, while it was kept at Lake Clifton High School in Northeast Baltimore ( 2008 ) . It was recently returned to the old Eastern High School, which is now owned by Johns Hopkins. ( Below that ) , Stone work above the entranceway of the old Mercantile Bank building on West Baltimore Street, which was later the headquarters of the Carrollton Bank. The building is currently used as a church. ( Below right ) The wise old owl can be found high above street level on the old Dunbar High School building on Caroline Street near Orleans Street.
..................................................Reese Monument Baltimore Maryland


....Mercantile Building, West Baltimore Stone Eagle
................Dunbar Hgh School Stone Owl

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Above, The eagle that had been on the Chesapeake Cadillac building for years was saved and added to the facade of the supermarket that went up on the site. Not quite as lucky, some of the stone work , on a smaller side building , of the West Baltimore General Hospital on Rayner Street , which has since been torn down.

.....The Images show above and below are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what you can find around Baltimore. If you know of any that I have missed, please let me know at the email link below.

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Above left, a face from the Crown Cork and Seal Company Building , on Guilford Avenue. The other three pictures are of the wing lions on the front of a school on Pimlico Avenue at Woodland.
As promised, here's more that I have found over the past few months

...Baltimore Fire Fighter
....... Stone Baltimore firefighter  - South Hanover Street Firehouse
 ............Three stone heads Baltimore
...3 heads are better than one, on this old private school building on Chase Street .
......Stone Face Church EAst Baltimore
............Angel's face on the side of a church in East Baltimore.
 ............Baltimore City Hospitals Entranceway
...........Old Entranceway of Baltimore City's Hospital - now a part of JHH
.................Lions of North Avenue
A row of lions looking out at Baltimore for the past 100 years from the old Tickner Building on West North Avenue.

......Forest Hills Apartments
.....Stone front of the Forest Hill Apartment building on Liberty Hgts Avenue.
.........Paca Street Fire House Baltimore
...........Stone work of a Paca Street Firehouse in downtown Baltimore.

City College Baltimore
............."C C ", Baltimore's old City College building, now apartments.
Ponca Street Electrical Building
Baltimore Ponca Street
Ponca Street Electrical Building
Monumental Lodge



Monumental LOdge Building Baltimore
Monumental Lodge Baltimore
Building Corner Stones
......Corner stone Baltimore Arlington Place

...............Linden Place Baltimore StoneCorner


......Chesapeake Terrace Baltimore Corner Stone
....Waverly Way Terrace Baltimore
   My web site, www.Kilduffs.com has been committed for the past six years to keeping an online memory of Baltimore Movie theatres and what has  happened to those buildings. In traveling around Baltimore City, I can't help but see some much more that is located around Baltimore City. Adam Paul has an excellent Baltimore forum and web page for all types of Baltimore tidbits. Hope you enjoy the above page and check out Kilduffs and the Baltimore Sights for much more !

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