by Meg | Jul 16, 2020 | Architecture, Blog, Building
I was recently talking to someone about opening our skylight a few years ago. We were talking about the staircase, and how unusual it is, and how the stairs work with the skylight. The stairs are grey marble, which was probably locally quarried, perhaps in one...
by Meg | May 18, 2020 | Architecture, Building, Ephemera
Last week, I posted on the 111th Anniversary of our building and also put it on Facebook. A friend, who is really a historical genius, sent me a link to an old Brickbuilder journal from 1912. Brickbuilder was a journal that covered the building trades, including...
by Meg | Jan 9, 2020 | Architecture, Cultural Exchange, Portraits
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, MD, was an energetic young physician in Baltimore at the turn of the 19th/20th century. He had everything: good looks, talent as a physician, enough money and a gorgeous house. But, sadly, he didn’t have a long life, dying in his 40s from...
by Meg | Jun 13, 2019 | Architecture, Cultural Exchange, History of Maryland Med, Physicians
I had the opportunity to tour Liriodendron, the summer home of Dr. Howard Kelly, one of the Big Four at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Kelly and his wife, whom he had met while studying in Germany, were parents of nine children. Like many of the other early Hopkins physicians,...
by Meg | Jan 4, 2019 | Architecture, Building, History of Maryland Med
Over the long holiday weekend, I was sorting through some boxes of books with a friend, when I came across a book called “Lost Baltimore Landmarks: A Portfolio of Vanished Buildings” by Carlton Jones (1982). As I leafed through it, my heart just...
by Meg | Nov 29, 2018 | Architecture, Building
At the top of the main staircase at MedChi, there is a leaded glass skylight. Not that you’d ever have noticed it, because it’s been covered up. The skylight was on the original specs and plans for the building, which was dedicated in May of 1909....
