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 | May 13, 2020 | Building
Today is the 111th anniversary of the opening of our building on Cathedral Street. For the first century, the Faculty had bounced from space to space, including at one point, McNamara’s Saloon, also known as the Emerald Hotel. In the early...
by Meg | Jan 30, 2019 | Building, Component Societies, History of Maryland Med
Although MedChi has had a presence in our state capital, Annapolis, since our very first days, we have not always had a permanent space there. In 1989, we acquired a building on Main Street which has a history almost as long as ours. The State of Maryland has a...
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....
