Downtown Walking tour

Old St. Paul's Church
This church was built in 1876 and is Romanesque. It has a large portico with arch ways with an emphasis on the lintel with Doric columns that have brownstone bases.  It has  its original Tiffany stain glass window above the main doorway. The whole facade of the church is red brick with two towers ( on each side, different sizes). The small tower is probably a stairwell of some sort. The stacking walls of the building mean that the main aisle of the church is in the center.

Walters Art Gallery

This a Renaissance revival style building. It has a 2 string course with rectangular niches  with bracketed lintels, and ten  fluted Corinthian style pilasters adorning its facade. It has a vaulted front door opening. The roof has copper shingles with skylights in it.

Baltimore Museum of Art

This building is a neo-classsical Greek revival style structure. It has a large staircase leading to a portico surrounded by ionic style columns. The portico is covered by a pediment roof with a relief sculpture adorning it. The portico has coffer ceilings, a demi lune fan light window above bronze doors with relief column pilasters. The building is symmetrical and has two adjacent niches on either side of its portico .

BMA Spring House

This building, used originally as dry storage for goods, is neo classical romantic style structure that has a pediment roof, wooden ionic columns and a stucco surface. on the boarders of the pediment roof there is a wave molding detail that imitates its name " spring house". The pediment roof also has dental molding and pillistered corners under it. The small building makes a big statement with its 1 story tall facade. Along the side of the building are small casement windows with shutters inside.

Johns Hopkins Campus Building

This building is located on the Johns Hopkins campus and is a neo-classical building. It is a very symmetrical and orderly building that has an original marble staircase with wooden folk fluted ( composite) columns. The doorway is a fan light trimmed with a large lentil with two rounded to perspective pilaster on each side of the porch. The building is adorned with 6 double hung light windows and two demi lune paladin windows on the side. The building is one string course and has a standing seem roof.