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City of Baltimore [4] Christopher Columbus: Little Italy, Columbus Piazza: 1984: Mauro Bigarani Marble: 14 ft (4.3 m) City of Baltimore [5] Destroyed on July 4, 2020 by protesters toppling over the statue and dumping the remains into the Baltimore Harbor. [6] Columbus Obelisk: Harford Road & Walther Avenue, Herring Run Park
A four-ton Nipper can be seen on the roof of the former RCA distribution building now owned by Arnoff Moving & Storage. [18] The site is located at 991 Broadway in Albany, New York. [12] A statue of Nipper was purchased by Jim Wells from RCA in Baltimore for $1, where it originally graced the former RCA Building on Russell Street.
NRHP listings in Baltimore County, which surrounds but does not include the city, are in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Baltimore County, Maryland. The central portion of the city and significant portions of the waterfront and city park system are included in the federally designated Baltimore National Heritage Area. [1]
Male/Female is a work of public art commissioned by the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City, a private non-profit organization founded in 1899 "to provide sculptural and pictoral [] decoration and ornaments for the public buildings, streets and open spaces in the City of Baltimore, and to help generally beautify the City."
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 350 U.S. 877 (1955), was a per curiam order by the Supreme Court of the United States affirming an order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that enjoined racial segregation in public beaches and bathhouses.
The Community for Creative Non-Violence, a homeless charity, paid sculptor James Earl Reid for a statue that depicted the plight of homeless people for a Christmas pageant in Washington DC, called "Third World America". [2] CCNV members visited Reid's Baltimore studio as he made the statue, gave suggestions and directions about its appearance.
The Columbus Monument is dedicated towards the Italians of Baltimore as indicated on its inscription. [2]In June 2020, the group known as the Baltimore BLOC threatened to destroy the monument by offering Mayor Young a dilemma of either removing all Columbus memorials or face vandalism as a consequence. [3]
Baltimore City Life Museums - consortium of historic homes, building and sites (folded 1997) Baltimore Public Works Museum in the old Eastern Avenue Sewage Pumping Station of 1910 on the east bank of the Jones Falls by Pier 6 and Harbor East area, in the Inner Harbor - closed temporarily in 2010 by the City D.P.W.