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= Guilford, Baltimore = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates: 39.342°N 76.612°W Guilford is a prominent and historic neighborhood located in the northern part of Baltimore, Maryland. It is bounded on the south by University Parkway, on the west by North Charles Street, Warrenton and Linkwood Roads, on the north by Cold Spring Lane and on the east by York Road. The neighborhood is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Tuscany-Canterbury, Loyola-Notre Dame, Kernewood, Wilson Park, Pen Lucy, Waverly Oakenshawe, Charles Village, and the universities of Johns Hopkins and Loyola University Maryland. The neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

History
The first known resident of the area was General McDonald who fought for the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. The name Guilford was supposedly named after the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina, in which McDonald was wounded.[2] His son William McDonald inherited his estate in 1850 and built the Guilford Mansion. In 1872 the property was purchased by Baltimore Sun founder, Arunah S. Abell, and would remain in his family for 35 years. In 1907 the property was purchased by the Guilford Park Company who wanted to develop the area into a sophisticated suburban neighborhood on the edge of expanding Baltimore.[3] In 1911 they consolidated with the Roland Park Company and together purchased 210 acres in North Baltimore. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. was hired to do the landscape and street design.[2] He is responsible for giving the neighborhood its distinct curving streets and terrain. The plan included three parks, “Little Park,” “Stratford Green, and “Sunken Park. In 1939 a fourth park was created called “Guilford Gateways.”[2] The company spared no expense on utilities, streets, drains and other infrastructure to create a modern and an attractive living destination for the Baltimore elite. The houses were designed by some of the most prominent Baltimore architects of the era, included Edward L. Palmer, Bayard Turnball, John Russell Pope, W. D. Lamdin and Laurence Hall Fowler.[2] The houses were primarily built in brick or stone and were designed in the popular revival styles of the early 20th century. In 1913 the new neighborhood opened to much local praise. After the completed sales of all the houses in Guilford, the Company allocated the Guildford Association to maintain the integrity of the neighborhood. The Association upholds the covenants of the Deed and Agreement left by the Roland Park Company.[2]

Welcome to the WikiProject page for the Johns Hopkins University! The creators of this site are librarians and archivists of the Sheridan Libraries. The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Brody Learning Commons, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall, the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen and the George Peabody Library at Mt. Vernon Place. The Sheridan Libraries are home to many significant special collections housed in the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center, the John Work Garrett Library, and the George Peabody Library. Key collections and collection strengths of Special Collections include:
 * Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives
 * Roland Park Company Papers
 * American Literature, including collections of works and/or manuscript collections of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry James, Sidney Lanier, Mary McCarthy, John Barth, John Dos Passos, Tom Wolfe, Rockwell Kent, and Madison Smartt Bell.
 * A rare book collection of more than 390,000 volumes, including medieval and Renaissance manuscript books, incunabula, and strong collections on British economic thought, German, French, and English literature and drama, natural history, travel and exploration, art, and architecture.

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