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The George Peabody Library is a library connected to the Johns Hopkins University, [1] focused on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and is located on the Peabody campus at West Mount Vernon Place in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere historic cultural neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
The beginnings of the George Peabody Library date back to the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857 by George Peabody, who dedicated the institution to the citizens of Baltimore. Now a part of ...
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Pictures. Portal:Baltimore/Selected picture/1. ... George Peabody Library. Portal:Baltimore/Selected picture/14. Baltimore City on Christmas Eve, 2015
The library was a gift to the community of Post Mills by George Peabody, one of the first great American philanthropists. Peabody spent some time in Post Mills as a teenager, where his maternal grandfather lived. Peabody's grant of $5,000 paid for purchase of the land, construction of the building and acquisition of 1,100 volumes. [2]
Peabody Institute Library, designed in 1875 by architect Edmund George Lind. Edmund George Lind (June 18, 1829 – 1909) was an English-born American architect, active in Baltimore , Atlanta , and the American south.
Bartlett Hayward produced the intricate railings of the George Peabody Library. By the 1870s, Bartlett & Robbins was the largest iron foundry in the United States, employing between 500 and 1000 people at any given time. [3] The company at this time produced the elaborate cast-iron interior and railings of the George Peabody Library in Mount ...
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