Thursday, February 22, 2024
A cool gray day, but thankfully no rain for a few of the
Hagerstown Walks. It turns out that the plaques explain events that happened in Hagerstown during the Civil War, rather than about their locations.
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City Park with a view of the Washington County
Museum of Fine Arts across the lake |
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| 163 S Prospect Street (1872) |
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| St John's Episcopal Church (1872) |
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| St John's Episcopal Church portal (KSS) |
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South Prospect Street Dry Bridge (1836)
over Antietam Street |
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| Hagerstown Women's Club Building (1838) |
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Rochester Parking Lot Mural depicts the Mount Prospect
House/Rochester House that once stood here and
served to care for wounded Union soldiers including
Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, who went on
to become a Justice of the Supreme Court |
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| St Mary's Catholic Church (1826) |
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Presbyterian Church of Hagerstown (1873-1875,
by Edmund G Lund) |
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148-152 W Washington Street (1810,
in Federal style) |
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| Price-Miller House (1824-1825, in Neoclassical style?) |
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| Washington County Courthouse (1873) |
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Former Nicodemus Bank (c 1910, in Classical style) is
on the site of the Federal Depository during the Civil War |
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| University Plaza (2005, on the site of McCrory Building) |
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| Former Baldwin House Hotel (1880) |
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| Public Square NW corner |
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Former Colonial Theatre (1914,
by Harry Yessler in Baroque style) |
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Maryland Theatre (1915, by Harry E Yessler and
Thomas W Lamb) |
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First Hagerstown Hose Company
(1881, in Italianate style)) |
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Former Hager Hotel (1913-1914,
in Eclectic style) |
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Masonic Temple (1898, with
Romanesque influence) |
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St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (est
1770, church 1795-1806 in late Georgian style) |
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| 8 and 10 E Washington Street have wild color schemes |
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Fancy Flag (by Gail Padgett and
Vernica Nehemias) is part of the
Balloons and Butterflies Collection by
the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts
students, which are scattered around town |
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Biking Through History (2011, by students
at the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts |
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Hagerstown City Hall (1939-1940,
in Renaissance Revival style) |
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Former Junior No 3 Fire Company
(c 1880, in Victorian commercial style) |
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John Wesley United Methodist Church
(1885, in Gothic style) |
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Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church (1774,
bell tower 1867, in Romanesque style) |
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Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church Cemetery, where
Jonathan Hager, the founder of Hagerstown is buried |
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| Trinity Lutheran Church (1909, in English Gothic style) |
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| Site of the original Ebenezer AME Church (1841) |
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Old North Street School (1888) served
African American families |
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Former Moller Pipe Organ Factory (est 1875,
building 1895 with additions) |
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The former pipe organ factory is being renovated for
residential and commercial spaces |
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Professional Arts Building (1937-1938, by
Amos J Klinkhart in Art Deco style) |
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| We had lunch at the Schmankerl Stube |
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| Quasi Bavarian interior |
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| Jägerschnitzel with Karroten and Spätzle |
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| Leberwurst-Sandwich with Kartoffelsalat |
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| 1 W Washington Street looks like the Streamline Moderne style |
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Old Washington County Library (1900-1901,
by Bruce Price in Neo-Georgian style) |
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| Former Post Office (1908) |
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| Former Antietam Fire Company (1895) |
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Construction of Hagerstown Baseball Stadium began in 2022
and is expected to open in Fall 2024 for the new minor
baseball team, the Flying Boxcars, in the Atlantic League |
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| We must be in Maryland! A crab atop Chic's Seafood |
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