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Enoch Pratt (September 10, 1808 – September 17, 1896) was an American businessman in Baltimore, Maryland. Pratt was also a committed active Unitarian , and a philanthropist.
He was director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland from 1926 to 1945. In Baltimore, he transformed many of the library's services including increasing the library's holdings of publications related to business, science and fine arts, and placing reference books on open shelves so the public could help themselves to information.
Built in 1847, the Enoch Pratt House was presented to MdHS in 1916 by Ms. Mary Washington Keyser as a tribute to her husband, H. Irvine Keyser, who was a member of MdHS from 1835 until his death in 1916. Enoch Pratt (1806–1896) was a well-known philanthropist who created the Enoch Pratt Free Library and gave substantial contributions to the ...
Clyde Nelson Friz (1867–1942) was an architect in Baltimore, Maryland, who was active in his field from 1900 until his death in 1942.He is noted for designing the main Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch, [1] [2] the Scottish Rite Temple with John Russell Pope, [3] the Standard Oil Building, [4] and numerous residential commissions in Tuscany-Canterbury and elsewhere.
Green Mount Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.Established on March 15, 1838, and dedicated on July 13, 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures interred in its grounds as well as many prominent Baltimore-area families.
The future of the Asylum was greatly enhanced five years later when in 1896, the estate of Baltimore merchant, businessman, banker, steamship line owner, and philanthropist, Enoch Pratt, (1808-1896) bequeathed a substantial amount of his remaining fortune, approx. $2 million (~$63.5 million in 2021), (after founding, constructing, and endowing ...
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland.Its Central Library is located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupies the northeastern three quarters of a city block bounded by West Franklin Street (U.S. Route 40 westbound) to the north, Cathedral Street to the east, West Mulberry Street (U.S. Route 40 eastbound) to the south, and Park Avenue ...
Enoch Pratt (1808–1896), businessman and philanthropist; founded Enoch Pratt Free Library, one of oldest free public libraries in U.S. Thomas Rowe Price Jr. (1898–1983), businessman, founder of Baltimore-based investment counsel firm T. Rowe Price; Helen Dodson Prince (1905–2002), astronomer who pioneered work in solar flares