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Paperback Mount Vernon Place Book
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ISBN: 0738542385

ISBN13: 9780738542386

Mount Vernon Place

(Part of the Images of America: Maryland Series)

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Long cherished as the cultural heart of Baltimore, Mount Vernon Place arose in the wake of a contested idea: the construction of America's first freestanding monument to George Washington. Responding to opposition from local residents, Revolutionary War hero and Federalist statesman John Eager Howard offered part of his wooded estate as an alternative site for this bold and graceful Doric column. After its dedication in 1829, Howard's heirs developed...

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