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First Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 102 West University Parkway, across from the campus of Johns Hopkins University, in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States is an historic structure that on December 27, 1982, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Ladew Topiary Gardens: Monkton: McCrillis Gardens: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission: Bethesda: Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens of Baltimore: City of Baltimore Recreation and Parks Department: Baltimore: Salisbury University Arboretum: Salisbury University: Salisbury: Helen Avalynne Tawes Garden ...
The University of Maryland Arboretum and Botanical Garden is located on the grounds of the University of Maryland - College Park. The Arboretum and Botanical Garden is free to visit and is used as an outdoor classroom for a variety of courses at the University. There is an established Central Campus Tree Walking Tour around McKeldin Mall.
Oakenshawe Historic District is a national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It comprises 334 buildings which reflect the neighborhood's development during the period 1890 to about 1926. The neighborhood evolved in two stages on the 19th century Wilson estate.
Because of this association, the park began to be morbidly called by locals "the city's largest unregistered graveyard" and "Baltimore's largest open-air cemetery". [33] In 2011, the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks led efforts to change the park's reputation with the closure of dead-end access roads. [citation needed]
The lake was constructed in the late 1850s after the city's 1854 purchase of the assets of the privately owned Baltimore Water Company, (founded 1805), following a long political controversy about the company's failure to extend water lines and service into the then outlying areas of town after the most recent annexation of 1818 which moved the city's northern boundary to then-called Boundary ...
During the 1800s, the property on which the Sherwood Gardens rest was part of the Guilford estate of A S. Abell, founder of The Baltimore Sun. [1] The location of the gardens was a pond, which was filled in when the area was developed for housing in 1912 and named Stratford Green by the Olmsted Brothers who designed it and the Guilford community.
It was designed by George A. Frederick (1842–1924), who was the architect of the Baltimore City Hall (1867–1875), and semi-official municipal architect of Baltimore in the late 19th century. The new conservatory opened to the public on August 26, 1888, 28 years after the city's largest park itself. [ 1 ]