Monument City Blog

This semi-chronological (and ongoing) list aims to clarify and organize information on some of America’s prominent early architects and the Baltimore buildings that continue to memorialize them.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820)

1. Basilica of the Assumption

Maximilian Godefroy (1765-1840)

1. Battle Monument
2. First Unitarian Church
3. Saint Mary’s Chapel (600 N. Paca Street)

Robert Cary Long, Sr. (1770-1833)

1. Baltimore’s Peale Museum
2. Davidge Hall (with Latrobe’s influence and possibly Godefroy’s design)
3. Old Saint Paul’s Church (walls retained after building burned down in 1854)

Robert Mills (1781-1855)

1. Washington Monument

Richard Upjohn (1802-1878)

1. Old Saint Paul’s Church (walls retained from Robert Cary Long, Sr.’s design)

Robert Cary Long, Jr. (1810-1849)

1. Franklin Street Presbyterian Church
2. Lloyd Street Synagogue (1861 additions by William H. Reasin)
3. Green Mount Cemetery Gatehouse
4. Green Mount Cemetery Mausoleum
5. Saint Peter the Apostle Church (11 S. Poppleton Street)
6. Jerome Bonaparte Townhouse

Nathan G. Starkweather

1. First and Franklin Presbyterian Church (with Edmund G. Lind)

Edmund George Lind (1829-1909)

1. Masonic Lodge at 235 N. Charles Street (1869)
2. First and Franklin Presbyterian Church (with Nathan G. Starkweather)
3. Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church (Bolton Street and Lafayette Avenue)
4. Sharp Street United Methodist Church (Dolphin and Etting Streets)
5. Peabody Institute

John Rudolph Niernsee (1814–1885)

1. Green Mount Cemetery hilltop chapel (with James Crawford Neilson)
2. Grace and St. Peter’s Church (with James Crawford Neilson)
3. Emmanuel Episcopal Church (with James Crawford Neilson)
4. Camden Station (with James Crawford Neilson)
5. Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church (with James Crawford Neilson)
6. Johns Hopkins Hospital (with James Crawford Neilson)
7. Clifton Park (with James Crawford Neilson)

James Crawford Neilson (1816-1900)

1. Green Mount Cemetery hilltop chapel (with J. Rudolph Niernsee)
2. Grace and St. Peter’s Church (with J. Rudolph Niernsee)
3. Emmanuel Episcopal Church (with J. Rudolph Niernsee)
4. Camden Station (with J. Rudolph Niernsee)
5. Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church (with J. Rudolph Niernsee)
6. Johns Hopkins Hospital (with J. Rudolph Niernsee)
7. Clifton Park (with J. Rudolph Niernsee)

John E. Ellicott (b. 1834)

1. Saint Martin Roman Catholic Church (Fayette and Fulton Streets)

E. Francis Baldwin (1837-1916)

1. Saint Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church
2. B & O Roundhouse (B & O Railroad Museum)
3. Buildings at 10,12,14 and 16 East Chase Street (with Bruce Price)
4. Saint Ann’s Catholic Church (E. 22nd St. & Greenmount Ave.)
5. Mount Royal Station & Train Shed (with Josias Pennington)
6. Maryland Club (with Josias Pennington)
7. B & O Warehouse at Camden Yards (with Josias Pennington)

Josias Pennington (1854-1929)

1. Mount Royal Station & Train Shed (with E. Francis Baldwin)
2. Maryland Club (with E. Francis Baldwin)
3. B & O Warehouse at Camden Yards (with E. Francis Baldwin)

George A. Frederick (1842-1924)

1. City Hall
2. Moorish Tower (Druid Hill Park)
3. Palm House Conservatory (Druid Hill Park)
4. Main Entrance to Druid Hill Park (possibly with John H. B. Latrobe)
5. Mount Royal Entrance to Druid Hill Park (possibly with John H. B. Latrobe)
6. Edgar Allan Poe Monument
7. Hollins Market
8. Cylburn House

Charles E. Cassell (1842-1916)

1. Stafford Hotel
2. Severn Building
3. First Church of Christ, Scientists
4. Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation
5. Brexton Hotel
6. Chamber of Commerce Building
7. Stewart’s Department Building
8. Corpus Christi Church (crypts and doors)

Henry F. Brauns (1845-1917)

1. Northern District Police Station
2. Mount Royal Pumping Station
3. The Lorraine Park Cemetery Gatehouse
4. Brown’s Arcade

Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912)

1. Continental Trust Building

William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928)

1. Munsey Building (designed by McKim, Mead and White)

Charles Follen Mckim (1847-1909)

1. Munsey Building (designed by McKim, Mead and White)

Stanford White (1853-1906)

1. Lovely Lane Methodist Church
2. Garrett House (interior renovation, 1893)
3. Munsey Building (designed by McKim, Mead and White)

James Bosley Noel Wyatt (1847-1933)

1. Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse (with William G. Nolting)
2. Garrett Office Building (with William G. Nolting)
3. Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church (with Joseph Evans Sperry)
4. Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company Building (with Joseph Evans Sperry)

William G. Nolting (d. 1926)

1. Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse (with J. B. Noel Wyatt)
2. Garrett Office Building (with J. B. Noel Wyatt)

Thomas Dixon (d. 1886)

1. Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church (with Charles L. Carson)

Charles L. Carson (1847-1891)

1. Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church (with Thomas Dixon)
   
2. Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue
3. Goucher Hall of the Women’s College of Baltimore
4. Enoch Pratt Free Library in Charles Village (Village Learning Place)
5. Enoch Pratt Free Library in Federal Hill (Jordan Faye Contemporary)
   
6. Central Savings Bank (N. Charles and E. Lexington Streets)
7. Equitable Building (with Joseph Evans Sperry)
8. Masonic Lodge at 235 N. Charles Street (1893 additions with Joseph Evans Sperry)
9. Evergreen Museum and Library (1885 additions)

Joseph Evans Sperry (1854-1930)

1. Equitable Building (with Charles L. Carson)
2. Eutaw Place Temple
3. Bromo-Seltzer Tower
4. Brewer’s Exchange
5. Saint Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
6. Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church (with J. B. Noel Wyatt)
7. Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company Building (with J. B. Noel Wyatt)
8. Masonic Lodge at 235 N. Charles Street (1893 and 1908 additions)

Joseph C. Hornblower (1848–1908)

1. U.S. Custom House (with John Rush Marshall)

John Rush Marshall (1851–1927)

1. U.S. Custom House (with Joseph C. Hornblower)

Otto G. Simonson (1862-1922)

1. Maryland Casualty Building (Hampden)
2. Fish Market Building (with Theodore Wells Pietsch)

Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1872 – 1938)

1. Pennsylvania Station

Clyde N. Friz (1867-1942)

1. Central Library of the Pratt Library system (1933)
2. Standard Oil Building
3. Scottish Rite Masonic Temple (with John Russell Pope)

John Russell Pope (1874-1937)

1. Baltimore Museum of Art
2. Charlcote House
3. Scottish Rite Masonic Temple (with Clyde N. Friz)
4. University Baptist Church

Laurence Hall Fowler (1876-1971)

1. War Memorial Building
2. Castalia (Calvert School Headmaster’s Estate)
3. Evergreen Museum and Library (20th century additions)

Philip H. Frohman (1887-1972)

1. Cathedral of the Incarnation