The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Jones, Carleton. "Mencken's Union Square: Then and Now." Menckeniana 61 (Spring 1977): 1-3.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore City
Jones, Carleton. Lost Baltimore: A Portfolio of Vanished Buildings. 1982; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Notes: A book--brisk, breezy, and egregiously abbreviated--of indifferent photos with long captions.
Jordy, William H. American Buildings and Their Architects; Progressive and Academic Ideals at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Volume 3. New York, Doubleday: 1972; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Notes: Briefly discusses the Peabody Library, Baltimore. See Pierson, William H., Jr.
Keith, Robert C. Baltimore Harbor: A Picture History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Notes: Includes historic photographs of harborside structures.
Kelly, Jacques. Bygone Baltimore. Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1982.
Notes: The real Baltimore in historic photographs selected and annotated by one of the city's most diligent appreciators. The photographs of buildings are excellent and include many interiors.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Baltimore City
Lake, Tom, and John Bayne. "History Behind You, Costs Ahead." Baltimore 70 (August 1977): 44-51.
Notes: Urban homesteading.
Miller, J. Jefferson. "The Designs of the Washington Monument in Baltimore." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 23 (March 1964): 19-28.
Miller, James Edward. "The Dowager of 33rd Street: Memorial Stadium and the Politics of Big-Time Sports in Maryland, 1954-1991." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Summer 1992): 187-200.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Miller, Mark B. Baltimore Transitions; Views of an American City in Flux. Baltimore: Pridemark, 1998.
Notes: Through historic and contemporary views of the same location, the author illustrates the dramatic effects of the automobile, the high-rise building, and other aspects of modern urban life on the Baltimore of a century ago.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Moffson, Steven. Richardsonian Romanesque Bank Buildings in Baltimore. M. A. thesis, University of Delaware, 1992.
Moudry, Robert M. Gardens, Houses, and People: The Planning of Roland Park, Baltimore. M. A. thesis, Cornell University, 1990.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore City
Mueller, Frederick William. "The Rebirth of the Belvedere." Baltimore Engineer (December 1977): 4-8.
Nelson, Lee H. An Architectural History of Fort McHenry. Philadelphia: National Park Service, 1961.
Nichols, Ashton. "The Fish is Fresh, The Heritage is Alive!" Historic Preservation 31 (July/August 1979): 14-20.
Notes: About the Cross Street Market founded in 1846 in Baltimore.
Norman, Gary, and Louise Akerson. Preliminary Archaeological Survey of 201 Facility Plan Project Area, Back River Waste Water Treatment Plant, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore: Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology, 1985.
Olson, Sherry. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Notes: Geographer Olson's book, by far the most thorough illustrated history of Baltimore, is strong on geographic and commercial development, and gives less attention to the arts, including architecture. However it does feature many historic photographs of buildings and contemporary news accounts of their construction.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Paraschos, Janet Nyberg. "Baltimore." American Preservation 3 (July-August 1980): 23-38.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore City
Peters, Kristen Stevens. An Investigation of the Archaeological Resources Associated witb the Powder Mill 4 and Herring Run 1 Retrofit Stations, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore: Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology, 1986.
Pierson, William H., Jr. American Buildings and Their Architects; The Colonial and Neo-Classical Styles, Volume 1. New York: Doubleday, 1972; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Notes: Beautifully conceived and executed by two outstanding architectural historians, this series of four books is one of the finest analytical histories of American architecture. The first volume includes major sections on architects Benjamin H. Latrobe and Robert Mills and their buildings such as Baltimore's Basilica of the Assumption. See Jordy, William H., co-author.
Power, Garrett. "'High Society': The Building Height Limitation on Baltimore's Mt. Vernon Place." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Fall 1984): 197-219.
"Preserving the Past is a Gift for the Future: Rebuilding and Restoring the Ross House, Baltimore." House and Garden 146 (November 1974): 82-87.
Prowler, D. "Baltimore Hits Home with New Baseball Park." Progressive Architecture 73 (June 1992): 26.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Raley, Robert L. The Baltimore Country House, 1785-1915. M. S. thesis, University of Delaware, 1959.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Richmond, Peter. Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Roth, Rodris. "Interior Decoration of City Houses in Baltimore: The Federal Period." Winterthur Portfolio 5 (1969): 59-83.