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tains wharves, factories and canneries. An irreg- 

 ular strip extending southeast from the Falls 

 is known as Locust Point, and here are located 

 immense wharves and railroad terminals, 

 mammoth grain elevators and some of the 

 largest coal piers in the world. Fort McHenry 

 protects the harbor. North of the harbor lies 

 the wholesale section; extending beyond this 

 toward the west is the retail district, and still 

 farther on lies the most desirable residential 

 locality. Beyond the city to the north and 

 northwest is a rapidly-growing, attractive dis- 

 trict easily reached by electric lines; Rojand 

 Park, Mount Washington, Forest Park and 

 Arlington are the largest of these suburbs. 



Parks and Boulevards. Of the city's many 

 delightful parks and squares, well distributed 

 over its area, Druid Hill Park is the most 

 famous. It covers 674 acres of natural beauty, 

 and may reasonably be ranked with the finest 

 parks in the United States. Druid Lake is a 

 large, artificial basin, and is part of the city's 

 waterworks system; the park contains statues 

 of Christopher Columbus (erected in 1792), 

 Sir William Wallace and George Washington. 

 Other parks worthy of mention are Gwynn's 

 Falls (375 acres), Clifton (267 acres), Wyman, 

 Carroll, Riverside, Swan and Patterson parks; 

 Federal Hill, which overlooks the fine har- 

 bor, contains several guns used in the War of 

 1812. These with the numerous squares scat- 

 tered throughout the city comprise a park 

 reservation exceeding 1,400 acres. Green Mount 

 i- the most beautiful of the city cemeteries, and 

 Baltimore Cemetery is the largest. West- 

 minster Cemetery, one of the oldest and 

 smallest, is the burial place of Edgar Allen 

 Poe. 



Charles Street Boulevard is a wide parkway 

 leading to a handsome residential district, and 

 Mount Veraon Place, with its famous Wash- 

 ington Monument, is considered one of the 

 most beautiful residential streets in the Union. 

 The Washington Monument, 164 feet hmh, 

 erected in 1814* was the first memorial by any 

 city or state to the illustrious American; Bat- 

 tle Monument, in Monument Square, scarcely 

 less conspicuous, was erected to the memory 

 of the defenders of North Point in the War 

 of 1812. To Washington and Battle monu- 

 ments rather than to the great number of 

 monuments adorning the parks and squares, 

 city owes its popular name, The Monu- 

 mental City. The Wells, McComas, Armis- 

 tead, Taney, Wildey, Howard, Ridgely, Con- 

 federate, and Soldiers' and Sailors' monuments 



and several bronzes in Mount Vernon Place 

 are all works of artistic merit. In memory 

 of Francis Scott Key, who wrote The Star 

 Spangled Banner in Baltimore, the city has 

 erected a most striking monument surmounted 

 by a figure of Columbia guarding a flag. 



Buildings and Churches. Solidity is the first 

 impression given by the architecture of Balti- 

 more. The most notable of the public build- 

 ings are the $2,750,000 white marble court- 

 house, the city hall, which cost $2,271,000, and 

 the Federal building, the construction of which 

 cost over $1,500,000. The city jail, Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital, one of the largest and best- 

 equipped hospitals in the world, the Baltimore 

 & Ohio and the Pennsylvania railway stations, 

 the Y. M. C. A. building, the Armory and 

 Walter's Art Gallery are all structures above 

 the average of their kind. All denominations 

 are represented in the city's churches, which 

 number nearly 500; the most prominent are 

 the massive Roman Catholic Cathedral, built 

 in 1800 and containing valuable paintings and 

 works of art; the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 which was the first of this denomination 

 founded in the United States; First Presby- 

 terian Church, Jewish Synagogue, Har Sinai 

 Temple, Saint Paul's, Grace, and Christian 

 Science churches. Baltimore is the see of a 

 Protestant Episcopal bishop and of a Roman 

 Catholic cardinal (Cardinal Gibbons), whose 

 diocese is the first in the United States. 



Institutions. Johns Hopkins University, one 

 of the world's great educational institutions, 

 was opened in 1876. Peabody Institute, with 

 its vast library, art gallery and conservatory 

 of music; the Woman's College (Methodist 

 Episcopal), Saint Mary's Seminary of Saint 

 Sulspice, Loyola College, Saint Joseph's Sem- 

 inary (colored), Morgan College (colored), 

 McDonough School, Bryn Mawr School, Vis- 

 itation, Notre Dame of Maryland, and Mount 

 De Sales academies are institutions of high 

 rank. Professional schools include the Poly- 

 technic Institute; the law and medical de- 

 partments of the University of Maryland; 

 Baltimore Medical College; Baltimore Col- 

 lege of Dental Surgery, the oldest of its kind 

 in the United States (1839); Maryland Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy, and the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons. In addition to the public 

 libraries, the joint gift of Enoch Pratt, the 

 city and Andrew Carnegie, there are the libra- 

 ries of the Maryland Institute and Maryland 

 Historical Society, the Baltimore Bar Library, 

 the Maryland Diocesan Library, the New 



