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!

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.

Mr. Duff, author of the Midtown Community Plan has been central in facilitating the revival of Baltimore’s four central neighborhoods.

Mr. Millspaugh was a member of the City’s original Inner Harbor planning committee responsible, along with Developer James Rouse, for bringing the concept of Harborplace to fruition.

Since opening in July 1980, Harborplace has played a major role in the renaissance of Baltimore City. Thirty years later, Harborplace is still a vibrant and vital part of the downtown business and tourist district.

GLOBAL HARBORS: A WATERFRONT RENAISSANCE
WALKING TOUR AND NARRATED PRESENTATION

Saturday, July 3, 2010 :: 10:00 AM

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

No registration necessary

Click here for a downloadable press release [requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Harborplace & The Gallery is owned and/or managed by General Growth Properties, Inc. GGP currently has ownership interest in, or management responsibility for more than 200 regional shopping malls in 43 states, as well as ownership in planned community developments and commercial office buildings. The company’s portfolio totals approximately 200 million square feet of retail space and includes over 24,000 retail stores nationwide. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP. For more information, please visit the company web site at http://www.ggp.com.

Join us Monday, June 21st for the 1st Annual Schamu Classic, and on Saturday, June 26th for City Sand 2010: Remember the 80′s.

1st Annual Schamu Classic

Monday, June 21, 2010 :: 11:30 AM – Evening

Elkridge Club
6100 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21212
Map & Directions

Lead Sponsors

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City Sand 2010

City Sand 2010: Remembering the 80′s — FREE!

Saturday, June 26 :: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Harborplace
between the Pratt and Light Street pavilions

Dust off your mashie, buff your niblick, and iron your plus-fours! Then wax the old Maxwell, Jaguar or Fiat and join us on the sylvan tees, fairways, and greens of the Elkridge Club  for the first day of Summer. A classic golf outing, car rally and good time in support of The Baltimore Architecture Foundation.

The 1^st Annual Schamu Classic will tee-off the Summer Season with a four-man scramble and classic car  and cocktail reception, with dinner afterward at The Elkridge Club to benefit the Baltimore Architecture Foundation. You don’t need a classic car to attend, but if you do or know someone who does, this is a chance to shine on the 18th fairway.

1st Annual Schamu Classic

Monday, June 21, 2010

Elkridge Club
6100 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21212
Map & Directions

Schedule of Events:

• 11:30 Range Opens and Buffet Lunch is Served
• 1:00 Tee-off
• 5:00 Cocktails and awards among the classics on the 18^th Fairway (weather permitting)
• 6:00 Buffet dinner among the cars

Contribution:

• $250 per golfer, all-inclusive
• $1,000 per four-person team
• $50 for cocktails & dinner only

Contribution includes lunch, 18 holes of golf, cart, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres dinner, and a chance to win awards and prizes.  Golf attire is required: Collared shirts, no steel spikes. Online registration for golf is closed.  If you are interested in playing, please contact BAF.  Online registration is still open for tickets to the cocktail and dinner reception on the 18th green among the classic cars.

Cocktails & Dinner $50.00

SPONSORS

Hole Sponsors

The Baltimore Trophy House
Century Engineering
David Buckley Construction
Delbert Adams Construction Group
Flux Studio
Friskey Communications
Housewerks
ILEX Construction & Woodworking
The Jones Family
Lewis Contractors
Marren Architects
Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
Mr. Thomas Mink
Phillips Way, Inc.
SMG Architects

4 of the 18 hole sponsorships remain available. The Baltimore Architecture Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. A portion of the contribution is tax-deductible.

MORE INFORMATION

Contact Tracey Clark (410) 539-7772 | baf@baltimorearchitecture.org

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

Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School
1600 Guilford Ave
Baltimore, MD 21202

The School of Architecture at Penn State is working on a project to design buildings for several sites in Greenmount West and to improve the design of public spaces. They are now ready to present their work to the community, hear what the community has to say, and work with the community to come up with other ideas.

Please come to the Montessori School this Sunday afternoon, at the corner of Guilford Avenue and Lanvale Street.

Penn State students will present and take questions from 1:00 PM to 3.00 PM.

The community will then work with the Penn State students in a charrette from 3:00 to 5:00. This is a chance for the community to test its own ideas.

This is a fascinating chance to get some completely new ideas about the future of Greenmount West. Good ideas? Bad ideas? You’d better come and find out!

Thursday, January 21 @ NOON

AIA Baltimore Gallery
11 1/2 West Chase Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Join Eric Leshinsky and Jeremy Kargon for presentations and discussion about how memory may be “found” within Baltimore’s existing urban sites.  How, in addition, may memorial themes be imposed deliberately upon these places?  Both presentations will explore our deliberate and tacit construction of landscapes and of memory.

FREE!

Hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University

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Baltimore’s Imaginary Buildings : Reception & Opening

Thursday, February 4th, 5:00-7:00 PM

AIA Baltimore Gallery
11 1/2 West Chase Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Exhibit continues from February 4th – 25th 2010

Gallery Hours

Mondays – Thursdays
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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

Saturday & Sunday, November 14 & 15, 2009
1:30 PM – 4:00 PM

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

Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, a film produced by The Gardner Documentary Group, will cover the life and times of this 19th century pioneering inventor and philanthropist who still speaks to us. Peter Cooper built The Canton Iron Works in Baltimore and cobbled together the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb. From railroad rails he developed the wrought iron I-beam for multi-storied construction, which allowed cities to grow vertically.   He was instrumental in financing and laying the first transatlantic cable with Cyrus Field.

With less than a year of formal schooling, he founded The Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art in 1859, realizing his dream of free education for thousands of Americans.  The Great Hall, a public auditorium on the lower level, continues to provide a platform for major social movements and politicians advocating reform.  It was here that Abraham Lincoln made his celebrated “Right Makes Might” speech that arguably won him his party’s nomination for president.
Before being nominated by his party for President, Barack Obama also spoke eloquently about our troubled economy, and later won the top place on the Democratic ticket.

Through his life of invention and philanthropy, we learn about Baltimore’s role in the industrial revolution and Cooper’s vision of social justice. During this recession, his warnings and business advice resonate and bring him back in a fresh and startling way.

James Dilts, historian and noted author of The Great Road: The Building of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will join producer/director Janet Gardner for the Q&A discussion following the screening.

Click image for full-size poster art (PDF)

Thursday, October 22 :: Noon – 1 p.m.

AIABaltimore Gallery
11 ½ West Chase St

Join designer Joey Stevens in his review of recent examples of Urban Design, Housing, and Public Architecture in Europe. Stevens will discuss the cities of Stuttgart, Freiburg, Strasbourg, and Amsterdam, as well as his internship experience with the Stuttgart offices of BEHNISCH ARCHITEKTEN.

For more information, contact Jeremy Kargon at Jeremy.Kargon@morgan.edu or 443.739.2886. Bring your lunch if you wish.

Hosted by:

Jeremy Kargon
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture and Planning
Morgan State University