Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square, is a historic city park and district in the Sandtown-Winchester area of West Baltimore, Maryland. It is bounded by Lanvale Street and Lafayette, Arlington, and Carrollton Avenues.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. James Episcopal Church and Walters Art Museum.
St. James Episcopal Church
Church
Photo: Jweaver28, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. James Episcopal Church Lafayette Square, or St. James African Episcopal Church, founded in 1824, is a historic Episcopal church now located at 1024 W.
Walters Art Museum
Museum
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The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters.
Edgar Allen Poe House
Museum
Photo: Midnightdreary, Public domain.
The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, located at 203 North Amity St. in Baltimore, Maryland, is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upton and Sandtown-Winchester.
Upton
Neighborhood
Photo: Payton Chung, CC BY 2.0.
Upton is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The neighborhood is in the western section of the city, roughly between Fremont Avenue and McCulloh Street, extending from Dolphin Street to Bloom Street.
Sandtown-Winchester
Neighborhood
Sandtown-Winchester is a neighborhood in West Baltimore, Maryland. Known locally as Sandtown, the community's name was derived from the trails of sand that dropped from wagons leaving town after filling up at the local sand and gravel quarry back in the days of horse-drawn wagons.
Seton Hill
Neighborhood
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Seton Hill Historic District is a historic district in Baltimore, Maryland. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It includes St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, which is a National Historic Landmark.
Lafayette Square
- Type: Park
- Description: public square in Baltimore, Maryland
- Categories: square and recreation area
- Location: Baltimore, Central Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.29852° or 39° 17′ 55″ northLongitude
-76.63654° or 76° 38′ 12″ westElevation
180 feet (55 metres)Inception
April 28th, 1857Open location code
87F579X7+C9OpenStreetMap ID
way 49320694OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Panjabi—“Lafayette Square” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lafayette Square (parke sa Estados Unidos, Maryland)”
- Cebuano: “Lafayette Square”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان لافاييت”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਫੀਯੇਟ”
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