Frederick, MD II (2/7/2022)

Monday, February 7, 2022 (continued)

Now the tour of Frederick, MD takes into African-American History:

Lester Bowie Mural (2020, by Rafael Blanco)
depicts the jazz musician and composer,
at 60 S Market St

The Old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station (100 S Market St),
where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech before
departing for DC, following an inspection of the nearby
battlefields of Antietam and South Mountain

Residence and office (30 W All Saints St) of
Ulysses Grant Bourne, Frederick's first Black doctor,
practicing from 1903-1953; he was the
first Black doctor at Frederick Memorial Hospital

Asbury United Methodist Church (1921, at
101 W All Saints St)

Asbury United Methodist Church Mural of Hope (2016) 

Site (111 Ice Street) of the Free Colored
Men's Library that was in the home of
Rev Ignatius Snowden, providing a space 
for the Young Men's Colored Reading Club
founded in 1913 by Clifford Holland

At 125 W All Saints St, the Diggs Pool facility (1948) was
named for William R Diggs, the African-American chauffeur
of Joseph Dill Baker, who donated the land for the pool

The outdoor pool is still in operation in the summer

Former First Missionary Baptist Church and Parsonage
(1773 with changes, at 141 W All Saints St) was given
to the "colored" people of the community in 1863

The Mountain City Elks Lodge (173 W All Saints St) had been
a hospital from 1919-1928, established by Dr Ulysses Bourne
with Dr Charles Brooks for Blacks who were denied care at
the Frederick City Hospital until the Baker wing was built

Entrance to Mullinix Park, named for a
Frederick businessman and alderman who
proposed a park for African American
residents, on land donated by Baker in 1928
who stipulated that a swimming pool be built

The walking tour continues:

Barbara Fritchie House replica, in the location (154 W
Patrick St) where she defied the Confederate soldiers,
as immortalized in the 1863 poem, The Ballad
of Barbara Fritchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier

Hidden Bull in an alley at 149 W Patrick St

Becky the Calf (2009, by Adam Lubkin)
is a tribute to the dairy cattle that used
to graze along Carroll Creek

A dog mural at the Frederick Dog Park (2021,
by Jeff Huntington) (KSS)

Spire Sculpture (2004, by Scott Cawood),
inspired by the description of Frederick's
clustered spires in the Whittier poem,
The Ballad of Barbara Fritchie

The Joseph Dill Baker Tower and Carillon
(1941) honors "Frederick's first citzen"
for his many contributions to the city,
including land for this park

Baker Park Bandshell (1990-1991)

Frederick Armory (1913, by John B Hamme and
Lloyd C Culler, in Medieval style) at 121 N Bentz St

World War I Monument with a statue (1924,
by Giuseppe Moretti) of Victory

Ramsey House (119 Record St) is where
President Abraham Lincoln visited the injured
Union General George Harstuff, after
inspecting the Antietam Battlefield

Former C Burr Artz Library (1936) at 120 Record St

Tyler Spite House (112 W Court St), the legend is in 1814,
the owner, Dr John Tyler, built a two-story house to spite
City Hall and prevent Record Street from being extended
through his property; Tyler never lived in the house,
which was next door to his original house; the house
was later expanded to three stories

Kent is with a cast-iron greyhound at
108 N Court St, a replica of a marble statue
of 1839; there are two legends associated
with this dog, one being it was taken by 
Confederate soldiers to be melted into bullets
but it was recovered safely, and the second is
that after the Civil War, young girls who lived
in the house named the dog "Guess" as a joke
for anyone who wanted to know the dog's name

Former county courthouse (1862, in Italianate style, with
ornate brackets supporting overhanging eaves) at
101 N Court St is now City Hall; in front is
Clarke Fountain (c 1890s, attributed to  J W Fiske)
with two playing cherubs called Cain and Abel

All Saints Episcopal Church (c 1855, by
Richard Upjohn in Gothic Revival style) at
106 W Church St, is one of the city spires

Potts House (c 1817, by Robert Mills in Federal style)
at 100 N Court St

Former Masonic Temple (1901 in "urban"
Classical Revical style) at 22 W Church St

Another Frederick spire (1807) of
Trinity Chapel at 10 W Church St;
here Francis Scott Key was baptized

Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ (1848)
at 15 W Church St 

Earthbound trompe l'oeil mural (1988), one of three
"Angels in the Architecture" murals by William Cochran

Kemp Hall (1860 for the Evangelical Reformed Church)
at 2-4 E Church St, is where the Maryland legislature
met in 1861 to vote on secession from the Union

Hendrickson Building (c 1877, by J A Dempwolf
in Richardsonian Romanesque style

United Steam Engine Fire Company #3 (est 1845,
building 1848) is said to be the oldest continuously
operating fire station in the country

Next: Fralin Museum of Art.