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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Baltimore (Independent City), MD
- Title: Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Baltimore (Independent City), MD
- Other Title:
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
Mount Vernon Place - Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Lind & Murdoch Architects
Lind, Edmund G.
Niernsee, John R.
Neilson, James Crawford
Hunt, Richard M.
Peabody, George
Morison, Nathaniel Holmes
Stone, Edward Durrell
Parker, Thomas & Rice Architects
Leakin, J. Wilson
Johns Hopkins University
Price, Virginia Barrett , transmitter
Christianson, Justine , transmitter
Price, Virginia Barrett , historian
Perschler, Martin J. , project manager
Rosenthal, James W. , photographer - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Photo(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 1
Data Page(s): 54
Photo Caption Page(s): 2 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS MD-1157
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: Remarkable for what it represents more so than for its classically inspired architectural statement on Mount Vernon Place, the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore was conceived in the 1850s, funded by George Peabody, and opened to the public in 1866. The Institute was founded as a cultural center for Baltimore city that would offer to its constituency a free, public reference library, a conservatory of music, an art gallery, and lecture series. Peabody hoped that it would be "useful towards the improvement of the moral and intellectual culture of the inhabitants of Baltimore, [and] towards the enlargement and diffusion of a taste for the Fine Arts." At the time, Peabody's Institute was unparalleled in scope; the Trustees gushed over the "splendid [...] monument of enlightened Philosophy and exalted Patriotism" that Peabody gave to the city. Some went even further, endowing their own charities for public benefit namely the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Johns Hopkins University and Medical School, while Peabody's philanthropic influence over others is more circumstantial such as William T. Walters and his son Henry, avid collectors of art who opened their home and private art gallery to the public on a limited basis with proceeds benefitting the local poor association. Henry Walters bequeathed his home and art gallery to the city in 1931. Peabody also swayed these Baltimorians in the siting of their institutions, for each was near by, in or close to Mount Vernon Place. Architecturally, Peabody was less specific about what he wanted, noting only that the Institute should be housed in a building "of character to elevate the taste of the City [with] a most capacious lecture room and a splendid music saloon." In 1857, Peabody's confidants John P. Kennedy and William E. Mayhew, both later serving on the Board of Trustees, summarized his wishes for the building as having "a large central hall provid[ing] a library with necessary reading rooms attached to it. The design should contain commodious lecture rooms capable of accommodating 2000 persons and above it a large hall for music." Peabody, it appears, named the spaces needed by the Institute to fulfill his ambitions for it; but it was architect Edmund G. Lind who, together with the Building Committee of the Board and Superintendents Jos[eph] F. Kemp and George G. Zimmerman, translated Peabody's notions of room use into a tangible expression. Cognizant of their responsibility to Peabody and the citizens of Baltimore, the fiscally conscious Board planned for the structure to be built in two phases, calling for designs capable of harmonious expansion. The Peabody Library, the main programmatic focus of the Institute originally, was built in the second wave of construction in the 1870s. Occupying the east or new wing, the library is a spectacular space framed in six stories of alcove book-stacks, including five gallery levels, all made of cast and wrought iron, decorated in paint and gold, and filled with rare folios. It is this "cathedral of books" that has captured the imagination, and admiration, of architectural historians and bibliophiles alike.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1436
- Survey number: HABS MD-1157
- Building/structure dates: 1858-1861 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1866 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1875-1878 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1926 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71001037
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 39.297194, -76.615201
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS MD-1157
- Medium:
Photo(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 1
Data Page(s): 54
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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- Call Number: HABS MD-1157
- Medium:
Photo(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 1
Data Page(s): 54
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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