WHEN: Fridays at Noon starting September 24th

WHERE: Enoch Pratt Free Library Poe Room, 2nd Floor
Central Library
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Bring your lunch and join us for another season of current topics in planning and design.
Speakers to be announced soon!

The Roland Park Company Papers

Sunday, July 25th, 2:00pm

The Libraries Service Center
JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, MD

Cost

$10 – members
$25 – non-members

Housed at Cornell University since 1968, the Roland Park Company Papers have returned to Maryland and we are invited to an exclusive first look with JHU Special Collections Librarian  Cynthia Requardt.

A treasure trove of information on the Roland Park Company, developers of Roland Park, Guilford, Homeland, and Northwood await our viewing. Every aspect of neighborhood development has been documented and saved within this collection – letters, plans, drawings (more than 2,000!), four volumes of photographs, marketing materials, plat and plot maps, and ledgers. So much information is included that it will take several semesters before the entire collection is even cataloged. Currently, it is being accessioned and housed at the Libraries Service Center on the JHU Applied Physics Lab campus in Laurel.

This is a unique opportunity to see an important piece of Baltimore history before it is fully available for researchers. Spaces are limited.

Online Registration is now closed. Please email baf@baltimorearchitecture.org if you are interested – we might be able to fit one more!

Directions

• I-95 to MD Rt. 32 West
• West on Rt. 32 to the Cedar Lane/Saner Road exit
• Left on Saner Road
• Follow Saner Road for about a mile to the driveway at the north end of the campus

Campus Map - click to enlarge

First, we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Harborplace with a presentation and walking tour.

To commemorate the role Baltimore’s Inner Harbor area and Harborplace played in shaping the history of modern-day Baltimore, Urban Planner and Journalist, Martin Millspaugh, along with the Baltimore Architecture Foundation will offer a free, narrated presentation relating to the documentary, Global Harbors: A Waterfront Renaissance. Mr. Millspaugh’s presentation will be introduced by author and authority on Baltimore architecture and development, Charles B. Duff. A free, guided walking tour of the harbor area, hosted by Mr. Duff, will follow the presentation. The walking tour will showcase the history and future of this outstanding example of urban renewal.

Presentation & Walking Tour

SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010 :: 10:00 AM

Renaissance Harborplace Hotel
5th Floor, Watertable Ballroom
202 E. Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202

No registration necessary

On Monday July 5th we’ll celebrate another anniversary — The 175th Anniversary of The Thomas Viaduct.

The event is being held by the Friends of Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway

Join us from 11:00am -2:00pm at the Patapsco Valley State Park for an afternoon of events including music by Daniels Community Band, Irishman’s Chorale and Sam “Mule-Man” Miller

Telegraphers in costume, Civil War re-enactors (with cannon!), mounted park rangers, model trains, games and activities for the kids and refreshments and vendors.

175th Anniversary of The Thomas Viaduct

Monday, July 5th :: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Patapsco Valley State Park : Avalon Area
5120 South Street
Halethorpe, MD 21227

FREE ADMISSION – THE PROCEDURE

*Patapsco Valley State Park charges fees of $2 per person (state resident) and $3 per person (out of state)  to enter the park itself …unless you tell the attendant that you were “invited by FPVHG”. (Friends of Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway) If you do the entrance fee will be waived!

For more information on tickets and The Maryland Club, visit our main Groundhog Day Page.  We’ve heard the weather report, and although we hope the snow passes us by, foul weather won’t put a damper on the party since we have toasty fireplaces and a fabulously comfortable space to occupy. Parking is on site in the Maryland Club lot. Guests can access the lot on the 900 block of N. Charles Street. There is a gatehouse just past Kumari on the right side of the street. Click here for a map showing parking lot and entrance.

Some things about the party that you haven’t read about will, no doubt, build excitement in anticipation of Saturday night. There are a large number of terrific Silent Auction items that have been generously donated this year.  These will highlight a number of local businesses and institutions and should make for an interesting evening of bidding.  We will also be adding some feats of dexterity to the evening that will give folks a shot at some Groundhog & Baltimore Architecture themed prizes, not to mention the notoriety of seeing one’s name at the top of the leaderboard.

Auction Items

This year’s silent auction is overflowing with terrific lots.  Some of the auction items that will be up for bid include:

• Romantic 3 course dinner with wine for two at Woodberry Kitchen
• Gift Certificate for “Complete Balance” treatment, lasts approx. 4 ½ hours, includes organic skin care body treatment, organic facial, massage, manicure, pedicure and shampoo and blow-dry. $280 value from All About Me Salon + Day Spa
• Bottle of Champagne (France) from Spirits of Mt. Vernon
• Two subscriptions for the JHU Odyssey Program, Baltimore or Bust: What Baltimore Gained During the Great Boom and What Remains To Be Done
• Original portrait from sitting (subject of bidder’s choice) by David Herman
• Kohler kitchen faucets (2 separate bid items)
• Original artwork, Baltimore themed, from Bob Quilter
• 4 admit-two passes to the Charles Theatre
• Greening your home consultation ($300 value) with Polly Bart of Green Builders, Inc.
• Decorative item from Housewerks architectural antiques
• Vitra MedaPal Office Chair from Douron
• Gift certificate for haircut & product by Barbara Johnson of NV Salon Collective
• Two ticket vouchers (2 tickets each) for performance(s) of one’s choice at the Peabody Institute
• Lecture Series & Membership to Evergreen
• Organic Chocolates by Chocolaterra
• Decorative object from McClain Wiesand
• Baltimore Architecture Memorabilia basket
• and more!

Games of Skill

This  year we are featuring two games of skill with some exciting prizes on offer for the guests demonstrating the best talent for tossing stuffed groundhogs through a hole.  We will also be offering prizes for the guests who demonstrate their skill with a putter in our Groundhog putting game.

We look forward to a great evening of fun in support of a great cause.

Saturday, January 30, 2010
8:00 PM – late

LOCATION

The Maryland Club
1 East Eager Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

INFO

Please join the Baltimore Architecture Foundation for our annual Groundhog Day Fundraiser. After roughing it for a few years in some of Baltimore’s best industrial spaces we’ll be partying in style this year at The Maryland Club. The fireplaces will be roaring, the food plentiful, the bathrooms heated, the parking on-site and the music happening with The Swingin’ Swamis.

The Club was designed by the prominent Baltimore firm of Baldwin and Pennington in the Romanesque Revival style in 1891. The Maryland Club features Beaver Dam marble on the exterior while the interiors are a rich interplay of oak, marble, ornate plaster, and faux finishes characteristic of high Victorian tastes of the time. The building today, after it’s 1995 fire, has been restored to its original grandeur and is an architectural time capsule of 19th century Baltimore.

Join us for Baltimore’s best Groundhog Day Party.

Tickets may be purchased at the door on the evening of the Party or via Paypal.

THEME

Light and Shadow

black/white cocktail attire is encouraged

COST

$50 Members

$60 Non-Members

$125 Patron (includes 1 year membership to the BAF and a copy of our latest book on architect Edmund G. Lind)

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE

Ticket Options

Non-Member $60.00 Member $50.00 Patron $125.00

Tickets purchased by this Wednesday will be reflected on a list we will have at the door. We suggest printing the receipt and bringing it along.

If you purchase tickets online after Wednesday the 27th of January, you must print the receipt that Paypal provides at the end of each transaction and bring it along with you when you come to the party on the 20th. This will serve as your paper ticket.

SPONSORS

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation would like to thank the following organizations who have generously sponsored the event this year:

SMG Architects
Shaw Contract Group
Keast & Hood Co.
Delbert Adams Construction Group
Century Engineering
hord|coplan|macht
Kittleson & Associates, Inc.
Southway Builders, Inc.

DONATE

If you can’t make it to the party this year we would still appreciate your support of the Foundation. Please consider a contribution to BAF.

CONTACT & RSVP

groundhog@baltimorearchitecture.org or leave a voicemail at 410-539-7772

City Blocks 2009

Saturday, November 21, Noon – 4:00 PM

At Harborplace & The Gallery, Light Street Pavilion, Level 2

• Noon-3:45 PM :: Team block sculpture building
• 3:45 PM :: Judging and award presentation
• 4:30 PM :: Santa arrives by boat to Harborplace Amphitheater

TYCO blocks provided by Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts

For more information about City Blocks 2009 :
Call Tracey Clark at 410-539-7772
or email to baf@baltimorearchitecture.org

Bromo Seltzer Tower Open Studio Tour

Saturday, February 28 – 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The Bromo Seltzer Tower
21 S. Eutaw Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Map | Directions

Built for the Ages: The B&O and the Beginning of Railroad Architecture in America

Saturday, February 28 at 12:30 p.m.

The B&O Railroad Museum
901 W Pratt St
Baltimore, MD 21223
Map | Directions

From the B&O Railroad Museum Website:

Jim Dilts, noted author and historian traces railroad architecture from the classical Carrollton Viaduct, opened 180 years ago, through John R. Niernsee’s early iron-roofed engine houses, to Baldwin and Pennington’s industrial scale passenger car shop and Frank Furness’s picturesque Aberdeen station of the 1880s, Mr. Dilts examines the Baltimore and Ohio as an architectural pioneer. An illustrated talk based on research for his new book, “The Architecture of Railroads in the U. S. and Canada.”

See you tonight!

We are pleased to be able to offer online purchasing for Groundhog Day Party tickets. In celebration of our continuing attempts to modernize, we are offering a special discount for advance purchase of non-member tickets.

We are knocking $5 off the ticket price, so non-member advance sale tickets are $40. Visit the Groundhog Day page to buy your tickets online.