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CLARENCE M. MITCHELL Jr. COURTHOUSE

In June of 1896 after putting the cornerstone into what was to be named the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., U.S. courthouse. One of the then Senators by the name of William Pinkney Whyte asked all the members that was there that day who had some say in the Justice system and other members to make good and carry forth the memory of their all the leaders by putting their pictures on the walls of the building that they could incite joy and good will to the younger generations of lawyers that was to come, who he wanted to come and look up to these men with dignity and honor. And proudly to say that one hundred years later the Clarence M. Mitchell JR. Courthouse building is still standing strong and has to date more than eighty-five (85) pictures of people who have given precious time and effort in serving the residents of Baltimore and Maryland with honor and pride. There are people’s who name is sacred and justified that stand in that hall such as such celebrated artists as Thomas C. Corner, Charles Yardley Turner, Simmie Knox, R.McGill Mackall and Edwin Howland Blashfield. There is great history and a story to tell in the faces of the people as their faces hang on these walls for every one to see. And along with the pictures are five murals showing pivotal scenes that had taken place in Maryland’s history and have come to be part of the permanent architecture of the Clarence Mitchell Jr. building. Joseph R. Byrnes, first started the idea of preserving and keeping proper documentation of these paintings and the location that they are in from 1936, Mr. Byrnes was at the time of the under taking an deputy clerk, who would go on to become an Associate Judge in the Supreme court system, also a Maryland Senator and the president of the Maryland Senate. His son the Hon. John Carroll Byrnes along with some of his colleges like the Hon. James F. Schneider, The Hon. M. Brooke Murdock amassed a great amount of information about the people in the pictures and formed a historical catalogue. Today the collection is still being preserved and more pictures added to the collection by the Baltimore Courthouse and Law Museum Foundation