Franklin Square
Franklin Square is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Central Maryland, Maryland and has about 2,380 residents. Franklin Square is situated nearby to the neighborhood Union Square, as well as near the suburb Sowebo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include H. L. Mencken House and Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy.
H. L. Mencken House
Museum
The H. L. Mencken House was the home of Baltimore Sun journalist and author Henry Louis Mencken, who lived here from 1883 until his death in 1956. The Italianate brick row house at 1524 Hollins Street in Baltimore was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985.
Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy
School
Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0.
Vivien Theodore Thomas was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndrome along with surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B.
Grace Medical Center
Hospital
Grace Medical Center, formerly known as Bon Secours Hospital, is a hospital in Baltimore. The hospital is part of LifeBridge Health, a nonprofit healthcare corporation that was formed in 1998 and currently operates several medical institutions in and around Baltimore, Maryland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Union Square and Sowebo.
Union Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Chris Everett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Union Square is a neighborhood located in the Sowebo area of Baltimore. It dates to the 1830s and includes a historic district of houses and commerce buildings.
Sowebo
Suburb
Sowebo is a community-chosen name for a historic area in the southwest of the city of Baltimore. Sowebo encompasses the neighborhoods of Union Square and Hollins Market, Baltimore.
Midtown-Edmondson
Neighborhood
Midtown-Edmondson is a mixed-use neighborhood in western Baltimore City developed mostly between the 1880s and the 1910s. The neighborhood is mainly composed of residential rowhouses, with a mixed-used business district along Edmondson Avenue, and industrial warehouses and buildings dotted along the CSX railroads that bound its western edge.
Franklin Square
- Type: Neighborhood with 2,380 residents
- Category: locality
- Location: Baltimore, Central Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.29077° or 39° 17′ 27″ northLongitude
-76.64264° or 76° 38′ 34″ westPopulation
2,380Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
87F579R4+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1420205777OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
11979964
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