The Gothic revival structure now known as Westminster Hall, part of the University of Maryland at Baltimore’s campus, was built in 1852 as the Westminster Presbyterian Church. Two established congregations—the First Presbyterian Church…
Christ Church. In the year 1785, the German Calvinists erected a church on the east side of Jones' Falls which ten years afterwards was sold to the Episcopalians, and by them called Christ Church. It was then without the steeple that now "so…
Second Presbyterian Church. This is situated on Market street, east of Jones' Falls, and is a large and appropriate building. It was built in 1804, by Mr. George Milleman, the architect of the Court House. The pastorship is at present…
First Presbyterian Church. This church originally stood on the bank of the a precipice, overhanging Jones' Falls, which strange as the assertion may now seem, did at one time meander, navigable for sea vessels, in this neighborhood. A church was…
Trinity Church. This is situated in the street of the same name, in Old Town. lt is a plain building. Pastor, Rev. John V. Bartow.
Excerpted from John H.B. Latrobe,Picture of the Baltimore(Baltimore, MD: Lucas Fielding, Jr., 1832), 135.
St. Patrick's Church. This church is erected on the west side of Market street, Fell's Point, at the corner of Bank street. It was erected in 1807, from a design of Thomas Conway and exhibits some pretensions to an imposing appearance, inasmuch as it…
By Picture of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD: Lucas Fielding, Jr., 1832), 139.">Excerpted from John H.B. Latrobe, Jr., Picture of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD: Lucas Fielding, Jr., 1832), 139.
German Reformed Church. This church is situated in Second street, between Gay and Belvidere streets, and is built after the usual barn-like fashion of places of public worship of its day, with the exception of its steeple, that is really both tall,…
The original church of the German Lutherans, was situated in Fish street, now Saratoga street, the identical establishment, now known as the African Bethel Meeting House,--a venerable looking building, with less of architectural elegance to boast of…
First Baptist Church, at the corner of Sharp and Lombard streets. It is a circular building, 80 feet in diameter with an Ionic portico. It is built of brick, and stuccoed. The architect, is Robert Mills, esq. The situation is conspicuous, and it…
St. Paul’s is known as the mother church of all Episcopal congregations in Baltimore. As one of the 30 original Anglican parishes that the General Assembly created under the Establishment Act of 1692, St. Paul’s (also known as Patapsco)…
What is now known as the Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, in West Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood, has its roots in South Baltimore at 112-116 Sharp Street. The mother church of African American Methodism in Maryland, this…
Grace Church — A small, neat, unobtrusive temple, erected on Williams street, Federal Hill, for the double purpose of teaching a Sunday School, and performing divine worship. There is at present no stated pastor.
Excerpted from Charles…
The Methodist Wesleyan Chapel, situated in Sharp street.
Excerpted from John H.B. Latrobe, Jr.,Picture of Baltimore(Baltimore, MD: Lucas Fielding, Jr., 1832), 141.
On September 6, 1814 Captain Samuel Babcock, U.S. Corps of Engineers reported on the state of fortifications at Baltimore to Major General Samuel Smith. Babcock had been ordered to Baltimore by the secretary of war “to direct the works of…
