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| 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 and we recently
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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.
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| 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
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| The 1500 block of
Guilford Avenue has several old stone faces to
look at, along
the outside of the Crown Cork and Seal Company
building.
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
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| ( 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
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date stone of the building, is this wild
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| Located in West
Baltimore is this stone monk ( below
left ) , 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, a
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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 ? |
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| 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
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| 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. |
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fancy, but interesting none the less, are the
door ornaments you can find all over the City,
just above the doorway. |
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 Just above
the entranceway of a closed school, currently
being renovated , at East North Avenue
and Wolfe Street, East Baltimore City.
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doorway in East Baltimore.
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 Stonework found on Hollins
Ferry Road, in South Baltimore.
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 Woman's head
over
a doorway in West Baltimore City.
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 .Odd
looking face over a doorway of a rowhouse, I believe
this one was also in West Baltimore.
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appears to be a boy walking along, carrying a
large bag.
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design, West Baltimore City.
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of appearance ( below ) , 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. |
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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, and has since reopened as
the Everyman Theatre. 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. |
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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. |
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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...... |
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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.
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Baltimore firefighter - South Hanover
Street Firehouse
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heads are better than one, on this
old private school building on Chase Street .
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Angel's face on the side of a
church
in East Baltimore.
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City's Hospital - now a part of JHH
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 A row
of lions looking out at Baltimore for the past 100
years
from the old Tickner Building on West North
Avenue.
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 Stone front of
the Forest Hill Apartment building on Liberty
Hgts
Avenue.
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Stone work
of a Paca Street Firehouse in downtown
Baltimore.
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", Baltimore's old City College building, now
apartments.
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My web site, www.Kilduffs.com
has been committed for the past 12 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. Hope you enjoy the above
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and check out Kilduffs and the Baltimore Sights
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more !
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