Starting in downtown, these are Basilica of the Assumption and First Unitarian Church.


There are two historic buildings on the southwest corner of Madison Street, among the many historic buildings in the Mount Vernon neighborhood. The brick building on the left is the 1894 Stafford Hotel, the tallest building in Mt. Vernon when it opened and a respite for the wealthy until it closed in 1973. The paint may or may not predate the closing.


The stone building on the right is the 1888 Graham-Hughes House, kept in the family for nearly a century.


Coming up to Mt. Vernon Square Park, Charles Street splits to go around both sides - both one-way, and called "Washington Place" (for obvious reasons). I choose the right side and am rewarded with seemingly antebellum architecture.


The small monument to Lafayette sits in the shadow of the towering Washington Monument in the heart of the square. Behind them are the Washington Apartments.


Hard to call this a gift to Washington if he was dead by the time it was erected.


At the northeast corner of the square, Mt. Vernon Place United Church, looking splendid from afar and close.


Clearing the park for good, with Stafford Apartments on the left and looking back at the monument one last time.


One of many Penn Stations on the Northeast Corridor, followed by a building on North Ave. that's not a church and may very well have been some type of arcade. It also resembles a bathhouse but I don't believe there were any hot springs in Baltimore.


Turning onto Art Museum Drive to show you a little slice of heaven. There's a lot more to Wyman Park, which is broken by Johns Hopkins University but continues to the west and southwest and has more trees, trails, and fields. However, this little nook is the perfect urban park.


Entering the northern corner of the park from Charles Street.


This little hut was a sort of visitors center, but doesn't look like it's been used for anything lately.


When I visited in April, the purple trees were in full bloom (I didn't get close enough to attempt to identify the species). This Impressionistic hillside is on the east side of the park along Charles Street.


Looking north from the center of the park, then toward Art Museum Drive to the west as two of the many dogs around the park (not prohibited by the white sign on the lamppost, as if they care) greet each other on the stone wall.


The southern corner of the park, tucked in behind the southern entrance so that the man playing his guitar on the bench has the perfect solitude without being isolated.


Finally, the southern entrance of the park from West 29th Street at Wyman Park Drive, with more purple trees in sight.

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