Mount Vernon Walking Tour. 2pm-3:30pm
Starting from the lobby of the Tremont Grand, this 90-minute tour offered by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation will provide visitors with a 100-year trip through Baltimore history, a fascinating exploration of the neighborhood’s architecture and an intriguing look at he wealthy and fashionable residents who, over the years, have called Mount Vernon home. Contributions to the Foundation are appreciated.
Sign up at Registration.
2pm-4pm
Several of the Special Collections libraries in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood will have staff available to welcome preconference attendees. These include the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the George Peabody Library, the Maryland Historical Society, and the Institute of the History of Medicine on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. Directions will be available at the registration table. Museums and Historic Sites
Self-Guided Audio Tour of Mt. Vernon Place.
This audio tour is at the Visitor Services Desk of the Walters Art Museum. Take a player outside and let the audio tour guide your exploration of Mount Vernon Place, the best-preserved 19th-century urban square in the country. Hear the fascinating story of the wealthy and fashionable residents who built the first public monument in the nation and the elegant buildings that surround it. Presented by the Mount Vernon Cultural District. There is no charge for the tour.
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The Enoch Pratt Free Library is one of the oldest public libraries in the nation. Its current building features a splendid interior under a skylight in the Great Court. The tour will include the ephemera collections in Special Collections include over 1,000 World War I and World War II posters; prints and photographs, sheet music, bookplates and Edgar Allan Poe memorabilia. Featured also are the African American Department’s political campaign literature; the Maryland Department’s sizable historic collection of Marylandia; and the impressive collection of H. L. Mencken’s writings, photographs, portraits, correspondence and Saturday Night Club memorabilia. www.epfl.net
The Library is a 10 minute walk from the Tremont Grand. After a brief tour of the library and main reading room, the Special Collections Librarian and Archivist at the H. Furlong Baldwin Library of the Maryland Historical Society will showcase the highlights of the printed ephemera collection. http://www.mdhs.org/explore/library.html
The Historical Society is a 15 minute walk from the Tremont Grand. Join Will Noel, Curator of manuscripts at The Walters Art Museum for a personal tour of the legendary manuscript and rare book holdings of Henry Walters. Treasures include Napoleon's memoirs, a first folio Shakespeare, and breathtaking illuminated Islamic and medieval manuscripts. Tourists will also see the Archimedes Palimpsest, the unique source for Archimedes’ Method and Stomachion, which is currently the subject of conservation, imaging and study at The Walters. http://www.thewalters.org/works_of_art/manuscripts_illuminated_antiquity.aspx
The Museum is a 10 minute walk from the Tremont Grand.
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Rena Hoisington, Associate Curator and Department Head, and her colleague Ann Shafer, Assistant Curator, will present a selection of 19th- and 20th-century illustrated books as well as contemporary artists’ books from the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art in the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Study Center for Prints, Drawings & Photographs. http://artbma.org/collection/print/index.html
The Museum is located next to the Homewood campus.
Founded in 1878, the Johns Hopkins University Press is America’s oldest university press and one of the world’s largest, publishing 60 journals and 200 new books each year and managing Project MUSE, the acclaimed collection of online journals. A visit to JHUP’s offices in Baltimore’s Charles Village neighborhood begins with a brief history of the Press’s 1897 building, a beautifully renovated former church that became its permanent home in 1993, and offers an overview of the history of scholarly publishing at Johns Hopkins. It continues with the “Life of the Book,” as visitors walk through the four departments of the Books Division and follow the progress of a typical manuscript from acquisition, peer review, and faculty board approval, through editing, design, and production, to publication and marketing. The tour ends in the Press Library, with ample time to browse a display of notable Press publications, including works from the nineteenth century, reprints and new editions paired with their original editions, and a selection of recently published books and journals. http://www.press.jhu.edu/
The Press is a 15 minute walk from the Homewood campus.
Home to two generations of the heirs of the B&O Railroad fortune (from 1878-1942), Evergreen is a superb example of Gilded Age architecture set on 26 landscaped acres. Tour Evergreen's 48 opulent rooms filled with the Garretts' extraordinary and eclectic collections. Highlights include an indoor theater designed by Léon Bakst, the Russian designer known for his work with Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes; a world-class collection of Japanese netsuke and inro; decorative art by Tiffany; and a fine collection of Modernist art including works by Picasso, Degas, and Modigliani. The house tour will be supplemented by a curator-led introduction to the John Work Garrett Library, one of the three Sheridan Libraries of The Johns Hopkins University. The 30,000 volume rare book collection is home to the Fowler Architectural Collection; other strengths include ornithology, Tudor and Stuart English literature, incunabula, voyages and travel, colonial and Civil War Americana, Maryland and Baltimore history, and the B&O Railroad. http://www.jhu.edu/evrgreen/
Transportation is provided. There is a $5/pp charge for this tour which will be collected when you sign up at Registration.
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