War Memorial Plaza

War Memorial Plaza is a public square, small park and space in Downtown Baltimore between City Hall and the War Memorial Building, between Holliday Street on the west, East Fayette Street on the south, North Gay Street on the east, and East Lexington Street on the north.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Baltimore City Hall and Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore.

Baltimore City Hall

Town hall

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Baltimore City Hall is the official seat of government of the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland. The City Hall houses the offices of the Mayor and those of the City Council of Baltimore.

Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore

Museum

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The Peale is a community museum in Baltimore, Maryland, which reopened in 2017 after 20 years of vacancy and was fully renovated by 2022. It occupies the first building in the Americas to be designed and built specifically as a museum.

Zion Lutheran Church

Church

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Zion Lutheran Church, also known as the Zion Church of the City of Baltimore, is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, United States, founded 1755.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Baltimore and Jonestown.

Downtown Baltimore

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Downtown Baltimore is Baltimore's central business district and seat of the city government. While home to some iconic Baltimore architecture, and the city's economic heart, visitors, and even locals, tend to keep their distance from this often seedy and decidedly unloved city center, unless they are going to the Baltimore Arena, the Hippodrome Theatre, or visiting Poe's grave at Westminster Hall.

Jonestown

Neighborhood

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Jonestown is a neighborhood in the southeastern district of Baltimore. Established in 1732, three years after Baltimore was incorporated in 1729, it is one of the oldest places in the city.

Inner Harbor

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The Inner Harbor is the heart of Baltimore, and the standard-bearer of its industrial and maritime heritage. In the 1950s, the area became an industrial wasteland and the buildings were eventually replaced with parkland for public uses and events.

War Memorial Plaza

Type: Park
Description: park in Maryland, United States of America, United States of America
Categories: memorial plaza and recreation area
Location: Baltimore, Central Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.29092° or 39° 17′ 27″ north

Longitude

-76.6096° or 76° 36′ 35″ west

Elevation

16 feet (5 metres)

Open location code

87F579RR+95

OpenStreetMap ID

way 208600152

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4372707

Wikidata ID

Q7968479

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Lithuanian—“War Memorial Plaza” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “War Memorial Plaza”
Lithuanian: “Karo Memorialinė Aikštė”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Pleasant View Gardens and Penn-Fallsway.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Charles L. Benton, Jr. Building and MECU Building.

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