The Home Of The First Washington Monument - Baltimore MD

City Walks

Sep 30

In this post I highlight the Mount Vernon neighborhood, the Cylburn Arboretum and the Civic Work’s Clifton Mansion.

The Mount Vernon neighborhood is considered the cultural center and one of Baltimore’s oldest neighborhoods. It surrounds the original Washington Monument with four parks, cobblestone streets, elegant 19th century homes, churches, restaurants, shops, as well as the Peabody Library and Walters Art Museum. Beautiful mansions, churches and civic buildings offer a wide array of architectural styles that blend to create an attractive urban area.

The Cylburn Arboretum is the beautiful Baltimore city oasis and includes a mansion that was home to the Tyson and Cotten families before it was transformed into the current arboretum in 1954.

The Clifton Mansion started out as an elegant plantation house, then a summer estate before going on to be the current Civic Work’s center and park.

Here is what caught my eye, I hope you enjoy!

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This is a view of the Washington Monument and Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church. The monument is the center of the Mount Vernon neighborhood and was designed in 1815 by American architect Robert Mills, who would go on to design D.C’s Washington monument.

Statue of lawyer and politician, Severn Teackle Wallis

Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church

Looking down Mount Vernon Place

Another view of the 200 year-old Washington Monument

Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church

The gardens of Mount Vernon Place

The Lafayette and George Washington Monuments

Street mural

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Another view of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church

Mount Vernon Place

One of the sculptures in the Mount Vernon Place gardens

One of the parks of Mount Vernon Place in the historic neighborhood

Vintage streetlight and flowering garden

A few of the buildings in the Mount Vernon neighborhood

The entrance to the Hippodrome Theater, built in 1914.

Brick walls and gates

This is the 273 foot steeple of the First Presbyterian Church, the tallest in Baltimore. The church was completed in 1875 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Some of Mount Vernon’s beautiful architecture

The John Backus House was built between 1855-1856.

A turreted building in the Mount Venon neighborhood

The Clifton Mansion was originally built in 1802 in the Georgian-style by Baltimore merchant Henry Thompson. The building was later purchased by Johns Hopkins, who transformed it into a Victorian era Italian vila, and served as his summer estate.

The Clifton Mansion was purchased by the city of Baltimore in 1895 and is now the Civic Works Center

The Clifton Mansion features an eighty-foot tower.

The extensive porch row of arches which wraps around three sides of the Clifton Mansion

A long shot of the Clifton Mansion

This is the octagonal stone Clifton Park Valve House, also known as the Lake Clifton Gate House was built in 1887.

Details of the Clifton Park Valve House

Some other Baltimore architecture

Edgar Allan Poe lived in this duplex with his aunt on North Amity Street from 1832 through 1835.

The Cylburn Mansion was created between 1863 and 1888. The building period was extended due to family death and the Civil War.

The architect for the Cylburn Mansion was George A. Frederick, who also created Baltimore’s City Hall building.

The Cylburn Mansion was built as the private estate of businessman Jesse Tyson.

The Cylburn Mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

A statue in the garden

The Cylburn Mansion Carriage House currently undergoing restoration.

Carriage House detail

The Cylburn Mansion is the centerpiece of the Cylburn Arboretum

Today the Cylburn Arboretum is a 200-acre oasis open year-round

What you should know:

The Mount Vernon neighborhood is walkable.
You can purchase tickets to climb the Washington Monument through the website listed below.
You can inquire about interior tour of Clifton Mansion through the website listed below. Unfortunately, they are only once a month, and I missed it when visiting the area,
Cylburn Arboretum is open every day with no admission fee. The house tours can be scheduled through the website below. Unfortunately, during my visit there was a photo shoot going on, so no house tours.
Public restrooms are available at Cylburn Arboretum.
You can spend a few hours to an entire day at the Arboretum.

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