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Monument City’s Research Feed is a blog supporting the Monument City geotagging project, marking Baltimore’s monuments, markers and historic buildings with accurate GPS data and embedding associated digital web content into each location. The Monument City project aims to keep Baltimore History relevant by providing a modern platform for it’s presentation.
Hello, I am a Baltimore historian who teaches classes on the city’s history and aspects of it. I have taught courses on Baltimore monuments for several years and am currently doing the class for Johns Hopkins Odyssey program. I stumbled on to you site in trying to determine whether the sculptor for the Gibbons monument at the Basilica was Betti Richard or Beth Richard. Your photos are really sharp. I also commented on several items in the archives section. One of the areas you should definitely look at is the role played by the Municipal Art Society with regard to the city monuments. Finally, here are the artists for some of the monuments that did not show that information:
John Eager Howard – Emmanuel Fremiet
FOP Police Memorial – Ferebee Strett Thulman
Confed. Soldiers & Sailors – F Wellington Ruckstuhl
Columbus – Inner Harbor – Bigarani Anuro
Armistead – Federal Hill – G Metsger
Confederate Women – J Maxwell Miller
Pope John Paul – Jospeh sheppard
Spirit of Music at JHU – Jud Hartmann
Katyn Memorial – Andrzej Pityuski
Wayne R. Schaumburg
5 Mar 09 at 5:46 am
There are some additional Civil War monuments you may want to add to this site. There are several Union monuments in the old National Cemetery (next to Louden Cemetery) in SW Baltimore. There are, I believe, three Confederate monuments in Louden, the most promninent of which is in the Confederate Cemetery therein. There is also a small GAR monument in the SE corner of Federal Hill.
Lonnie Belt
7 Mar 10 at 12:30 pm