Ira Remsen House
The Ira Remsen House is a historic house at 214 West Monument Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Built in the 1880s, this undistinguished row house was the home of Ira Remsen, a noted chemist and educator who served as president of Johns Hopkins University from 1901 to 1913, and influenced a generation of chemists and chemistry researches with his textbooks and pedagogical methods.Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
- Type: Apartment building
- Description: historic house in Maryland, United States
- Address: 214 West Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Walters Art Museum and Mt. Vernon station.
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. Walters Art Museum is situated 990 feet southeast of Ira Remsen House.
Mt. Vernon station
Railway station
Photo: Taber Andrew Bain, CC BY 2.0.
Mt. Vernon station is a Baltimore Light RailLink station in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The Mount Vernon stop is located near the Walters Art Museum, and a former Greyhound Bus terminal. Mt. Vernon station is situated 350 feet southwest of Ira Remsen House.
George Peabody Library
Library
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The George Peabody Library is a library connected to the Johns Hopkins University, focused on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and is located on the Peabody campus at West Mount Vernon Place in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere historic cultural neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland. George Peabody Library is situated 1,200 feet east of Ira Remsen House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Vernon and Seton Hill.
Mount Vernon
Neighborhood
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Mount Vernon is a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, located immediately north of the city's downtown. It is named for George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, as the site of the city's Washington Monument.
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.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY 3.0.
The U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland is home to a small Chinatown. Historically, Baltimore had at least two districts that were called "Chinatown" where the first one existed on the 200 block of Marion Street during the 1880s.
Ira Remsen House
- Categories: house, building, and residential building
- Location: Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.29765° or 39° 17′ 52″ northLongitude
-76.61932° or 76° 37′ 10″ westLevels
3Open location code
87F579XJ+37OpenStreetMap ID
way 336379657OpenStreetMap feature
building=apartmentsWikidata ID
Q6066200
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In Other Languages
“Ira Remsen House” goes by many names.
- French: “Ira Remsen House”
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