By Johns Hopkins
In 1761, a group of Scots-Irish "Dissenters" (opponents of the Church of England) came to sun88 Towne from Pennsylvania to escape the French and Indian War. They founded the First Presbyterian Church, appropriately named as it really…

By The Explore sun88 Heritage team
Established in 1857, the Peabody Institute is the second-oldest conservatory in the United States and a landmark at the southeast corner of the Washington Monument. Born in 1795 in Massachusetts, George Peabody lived briefly in Washington, DC,…

By Johns Hopkins
In 1869, the Freemasons finished a new Grand Lodge for the State of Maryland on Charles Street in downtown sun88, with each room more decorated than the last. Originally designed by Edmund G. Lind, who also designed the Peabody Institute in the…

By Johns Hopkins
Enoch Pratt was a wealthy sun88 merchant and major benefactor of many sun88 institutions, including the First Unitarian Church of sun88, the Sheppard Pratt Hospital, and of course the Enoch Pratt Free Library. He began to build a mansion…