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Mary Ellen Hayward (May 30, 1961 – August 11, 2020) was an American scholar of architecture, in particular the rowhome form as present in Baltimore City, Maryland.

Early Life and Education
Hayward was born in Lutherville, Maryland, the daughter of a wholesale liquor salesman. attended Roland Park Country School

married Maryland Historical Magazine editor Robert J. Brugger in 1987

Career
In 1981, Hayward worked as an exhibit curator at Baltimore's Peale Museum, where she developed the exhibit "The Rowhouse - A Baltimore Style of Living." She presented a paper on the same topic that October at the annual Maryland Historical Trust conference.

That same year, Hayward worked on a University of Baltimore team on a two-year survey of Baltimore private organizational records, published as The Records of Baltimore's Private Organizations.

By, Hayward was a staff curator of maritime collections with the Maryland Historical Society.

As part of this role, she delivered public lectures on topics such as "Baltimore in the Privateer Era," "the merchants of Westminster," and "Holiday Feasts - Cookbooks from the Collection." In 1984, Hayward curated an exhibit on "Maryland's Maritime Heritage" at the Radcliffe Maritime Museum.

In 1986, Hayward curated "From Torchlight to Television: 200 Years of Maryland Political Campaigns," a Maryland Historical Society exhibit displaying hundreds of election items from 1789 to the then-present primary. The same year, she collaborated with historian George H. Callcott to produce a book on the same theme, Maryland Political Behavior: Four Centuries of Political Culture.

Hayward's role with the Maryland Historical Society expanded to grants coordination and, by 1992, a position as special assistant to the director of the society.

In 1994, Hayward and Robert I. Cottom Jr. produced Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided, a book adapted from their previous Maryland Historical Society exhibit.

As early as the 1980s, Hayward's work on rowhomes had been used as a reference for historic preservation selections in neighborhoods like Fells Point.

preservationist charged with documenting 3-6000 alley houses - Lemmon St homes

By the late 90s, Hayward was the director of the Maryland Historical Trust's Alley House Project, conducting historic site surveys.

In 1997, Hayward and Charles Belfoure began work on a book to be titled The Rowhouse: Baltimore's Basic Building Block, with grant awards from the James Marston Fitch Chartiable Trust and the Baltimore Architectural Foundation. The resulting book, published in 1999 as simply The Baltimore Rowhouse, won the authors a Preservation Honor Award from Baltimore Heritage the following year.

In 2004, Hayward published The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, the culmination of 10 years of research in conjunction with Baltimore historian Frank Shivers. The book won the top prize for nonfiction at the Baltimore Book Festival that same year.

Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1970s won another Preservation Honor Award from Baltimore Heritage.