Baltimore, Maryland, is one of America's oldest and most beautiful big cities. Twelve generations of Baltimoreans have built and destroyed some of America's bes

From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, the book chronicles two hundred years of architectural history through an exploration of the city

Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of s

Baltimore was an innovator in the development of cast-iron architecture, but the city's heritage of buildings in this genre, once numbering more than a hundred,