Baltimore Heritage Walk
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The Baltimore Heritage Walk is a heritage trail that links 20 historic sites and museums in Baltimore, Maryland.
It is 3.2 miles long. A map and list of sites that it links appears here.
It includes:
It is 3.2 miles long. A map and list of sites that it links appears here.
It includes:
- U.S.S. Constellation Museum, Pier 1, East Pratt StreetPratt StreetPratt Street is a major street in Baltimore. It forms a one-way pair of streets with Lombard Street that run west-east through downtown Baltimore. For most of their route, Pratt Street is one-way in an eastbound direction, and Lombard Street is one way westbound. Both streets begin in west...
- World Trade Center / Top of the WorldBaltimore World Trade CenterLocated on the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, the Baltimore World Trade Center is the world's tallest regular pentagonal building . It was designed by the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with the principal architects being Henry N...
, 401 East Pratt Street - Baltimore Maritime MuseumBaltimore Maritime MuseumHistoric Ships in Baltimore, created as a result of the merger of the USS Constellation Museum and the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States....
, Pier 3, East Pratt Street - Baltimore Public Works MuseumBaltimore Public Works MuseumThe now-closed Baltimore Public Works Museum was located at 751 Eastern Avenue, Pier 7 of the Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland. This museum provided a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how a large city provides utility services to its citizens. The building housing this display is an operating pumping...
, 751 Eastern AvenueMaryland Route 150Maryland Route 150 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as either Eastern Avenue or Eastern Boulevard, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 40 in Baltimore east to Graces Quarters Road in Chase in eastern Baltimore County. MD 150 connects Baltimore... - President Street StationPresident Street Stationthumb|Back of the Baltimore Civil War Museum, 2008The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland is a former train station. Built in 1850, it is the oldest surviving big city railroad terminal in the United States...
, 601 President Street - Star-Spangled Banner Flag House, 844 East Pratt Street
- Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & CultureReginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & CultureThe Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture is an African-American museum located at 830 E. Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Opened in 2005, the museum is dedicated to showing the struggles for self-determination made by African American Marylanders. The...
, 830 East Pratt Street - Carroll MansionCarroll MansionThe Carroll Mansion is a historic building and museum located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.-History:...
, 800 East Lombard StreetLombard Street (Baltimore)Lombard Street is a major street in Baltimore. It forms a one-way pair of streets with Pratt Street that run west-east through downtown Baltimore. For most of their route, Pratt Street is one-way in an eastbound direction, and Lombard Street is one way westbound. Both streets begin in west... - Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd Street
- McKim Free School, 1120 East Baltimore Street
- Old Town Friends' MeetinghouseOld Town Friends' MeetinghouseOld Town Friends' Meetinghouse, also known as Aisquith Street Meeting or Baltimore Meeting, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story brick building which has undergone several alterations over the years...
, 1201 East Fayette Street - Nine North Front Street
- Phoenix Shot TowerPhoenix Shot TowerThe Phoenix Shot Tower, also known as the Old Baltimore Shot Tower, is a red brick shot tower, tall, located near the downtown and Little Italy areas of Baltimore, Maryland. When it was completed in 1828 it was the tallest structure in the United States...
, Fayette and Front Streets - St. Vincent de Paul ChurchSt. Vincent de Paul Church (Baltimore, Maryland)St. Vincent de Paul Church is a is a historic Roman Catholic church located at 120 N. Front Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.-History:The church was dedicated in 1841 and is "the oldest Catholic parish church in continuous use in Baltimore."...
, 120 North Front Street - War Memorial PlazaWar Memorial PlazaWar Memorial Plaza is a landmark in Downtown Baltimore across from City Hall.-History:Construction began in 1917.Barack Obama made a stop at War Memorial Plaza on the way to his inauguration. He chose the site because he wanted to trace Abraham Lincoln's path....
, Fayette and GayGay Street (Baltimore)Gay Street is a street in Baltimore, Maryland that gets its name from Nicholas Ruxton Gay, who surveyed the area in 1747. It begins at the intersection of East Pratt Street near the Baltimore World Trade Center and proceeds north and east through Baltimore until it crosses Orleans Street and...
Streets - Zion Church of the City of Baltimore, 400 East Lexington Street
- Peale MuseumPeale MuseumThe Peale Museum, also known as the Municipal Museum of Baltimore, was a museum of paintings and natural history, located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It occupied the first building in the Western Hemisphere to be designed and built as a museum. The Peale Museum was created by Charles Willson Peale...
, 225 North Holliday Street - City HallBaltimore City HallBaltimore City Hall is the official seat of government of the City of Baltimore. City Hall houses the offices of the mayor and those of the Baltimore City Council. The building also hosts the city comptroller, some city departments and chambers of the Baltimore City Council...
, 100 Holliday Street - Battle MonumentBattle MonumentThe Battle Monument, located on Calvert Street between Fayette and Lexington Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, commemorates the Battle of Baltimore and honors those who died during the month of September 1814 during the War of 1812...
, Calvert and Fayette Streets - Alex. Brown Building, 135 East Baltimore Street