Mt. Washington Village in (more) pictures

Mt. Washington was founded in the middle of the nineteenth century as a place to escape the oppressive conditions of the city. It was one of the first “street-car suburbs” of Baltimore, and housed some of Baltimore’s finer families, including the “Sage of Baltimore” H.L. Mencken¹, during their summer escapes.

Mt. Washington Village certainly proved a lovely summer escape for us.

Creek running right alongside building in Mt. Washington

Store front garden on Smith Street in Mt. Washington

Colonial-styled water meter cover

Fountain at Baltimore Clay Works

Gaping clay head: every home should have one

Update

For more Mt. Washington pictures, see

1. Mt. Washington Maryland: accidental tourist edition, and
2. Mt Washington Mill in pictures

1. Mencken was quite the man of letters, but is possibly most enduringly remembered for his coverage of the Scopes trial, the watershed 1925 legal battle over the teaching of evolution vs creationism. Mencken famously dubbed the case “the monkey trial”—and, like many other 20th century American cultural battles, the monkey trial is still being fought over and over again today. Several of Menken’s works are available online for free through Project Gutenberg. [↩]