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Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 1 (exterior), Pitcher Street and Fremont Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, 1938

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Enoch Pratt Free Library

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Photograph taken in 1938 of the exterior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 1 on the northeast corner of Pitcher Street and Fremont Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. This building and the buildings for Branch numbers 2, 3, and 4 and Central were completed by September 1884 and became part of Enoch Pratt's gift to Baltimore. All of the buildings were built with pressed brick with buff stone trim in the Romanesque architecture style. On the corner of this tree-lined street are several youngsters talking. Behind them and enclosing the side of the building is an iron fence. A truck, with what appears to be the EP (Enoch Pratt) initials on its driver’s side door, is parked in front of the entrance. Branch 1 closed in 1957 after a new branch opened nearby. In 1974, the old building was bought, refurbished, and reopened as an African American church. For a view of the interior of this building, see mdaa065
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Keywords

  1. African American Life
  2. African Americans
  3. Baltimore
  4. Enoch Pratt Free Library
  5. Library Buildings
  6. Maryland
  7. Pictorial Works
  8. Romanesque Revival (Architecture)

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