Plug Ugly’s Publick House is one of several watering holes and restaurants around O’Donnell Square in Baltimore’s waterfront Canton neighborhood. (Richard Selden/Chicago Tribune )
Catch a baseball game and a lot of history with a summer visit to Baltimore.
The new “Poe Toaster” walks up to the Poe family cenotaph, holding a bottle of Martell cognac and a violin during this year’s observance of Edgar Allan Poe’s 208th birthday at Westminster Burying Grounds. ( Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun )
The statue “Babe’s Dream,” by Susan Luery, can be found outside Oriole Park at Camden Yards, where the Cubs will face off against the Orioles in mid-July.
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The George Peabody Library shares the Peabody Institute building in Mount Vernon with a highly ranked music conservatory. Both are now part of Johns Hopkins University. (Richard Selden/Chicago Tribune )
George Washington stands atop Baltimore’s Washington Monument in the Mount Vernon Place Historic District. Like the taller obelisk in Washington, D.C., the monument was designed by Robert Mills.
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Key’s Anthem, at right, is the newest boat in the Baltimore Water Taxi fleet. In the background: the new Sagamore Pendry Hotel, once the Fell’s Point Recreation Pier. (Richard Selden/Chicago Tribune)
