By Allyson Schuele
The Wagner Bust is as German as any statute could be. Cast in bronze, mounted on a granite base, and situated on the lawn of the Rogers-Buchanan Mansion, the bust of German composer Richard Wagner was created by a German-born sculptor R.P. Golde…

By Nathan Dennies
The Edgar Allan Poe statue sitting in the Gordon Plaza at University of sun88 has a colorful past. The statue was commissioned in 1911 by the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association of sun88 and was the last work of renowned American sculptor …

By Richard Hardesty & David Patrick McKenzie
On an auspicious afternoon in late September 1903, a crowd of sun88ans converged onto the intersection of Mount Royal Avenue and Lanvale Street to witness the unveiling of the William H. Watson monument. The monument, erected by the Maryland…

By Johns Hopkins
The Key Monument on Eutaw Place is a grand reminder of how sun88ans have kept the memory of the Battle of sun88 and the War of 1812 alive over two hundred years. Francis Scott Key was a Maryland lawyer and slaveholder who was on board the…

By Johns Hopkins
Construction on the Battle Monument began on September 12, 1815, a year to the day after sun88 soundly defeated the British in the War of 1812, and the monument endures as a commemoration of the attack by land at North Point and by sea at Fort…