Baltimore County Legacy Web
Note: This page includes a list of digitized images in the BCPL Legacy Web database for topics beginning with the letter "S".
Scenes - Lutherville   DA_00677
to be added
Scenes - Lutherville - Melancthon Avenue   DA_01524
Landon House, 219 Melancthon Avenue seen through the snow of February 10, 2010.
Scenes - Lutherville - Melancthon Avenue   DA_01523
A view of 217 and 219 Melancthon Avenue just after the record breaking snow of February 10, 2010.
Scenes - Mt. Zion Road   DA_00376
to be added
Scenes - Mt. Zion Road - Grasslands Farm   DA_00382
to be added
Scenes - Phoenix   DA_01100
to be added
School Houses - Public - Bond School   26647038
Union School House, in the Gorsuch Mills area (see History Trails, vol 37, spring 2005, p.1., where labeled "Union School"). Labeled on back of image by photographer as "Bond School House, West Liberty Road."
Schools - Baltimore - Private   WR_4545
The McKim Free School at 1120 East Baltimore Street in the City was built in 1833 to a design by William F. Small and enabled by a 1819 bequest from Irish immigrant and Quaker cotton manufacturer John McKim. The money further was used by his sons Issac and William to set up a school for indigent children with this building coming on stream somewhat later. The building was purportedly madeled after the Greek Temple of Haephaestus on the Acropolis in Athens. After public education became general this building found new uses first as a kindergarten, and then as a community center. Now the McKim Community Association Inc, it is a non profit organization sponsored by the United Presbyterian Church, The Stony Run Friends, and other groups and individuals. It provides tutoring, athletic programs, arts and crafts and other actvitires for youbg people, and a food program for the elderly.
Schools - Baltimore City   24717048
The Public School # 4 in Baltimore City may have been the architectural inspiration for SuperMax.
Schools - Baltimore City   7115017
The which was built prior to 1915, when it was called "Mrs Swindell's house." It was situated at 4906 Roland Avenue at the southwest corner of Roland and Wyndhurst Avenues. By the 1970s it had become the School of Contemporary Education, and by 2004 it was the Odyssey School.
Schools - Baltimore City   7115003
The Odyssey School at 4906 Roland Avenue at the intersection of Wyndhurst Avenue in Roland Park. Built prior to 1915, it was called "Mrs Swindell's house" in the Bromley Atlas of Baltimore County. By the 1970s it was the School of Contemporary Education.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115011
This classroom was part of what was called Mrs.. Swindells House in the Bromley Atlas of 1915. The educational facility, located at 4906 Roland Avenue, at its intersection with Wyndhurst Avenue, was known for many years as The School of Contemporary Education. Lately it has been renamed Odyssey School.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115012
The school at the SW corner of Roland Avenue and Wyndhurst in the city, lately called Odyessy School, operated for many years as the School of Contemporary Education. Before that it also served as an educational facility named Mrs. Swindles House The Bromley Atlas of Baltimore County states it was built prior to 1915.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115005
The library of a house which was built prior to 1915, when it was called "Mrs Swindell's house." It was situated at 4906 Roland Avenue at the southwest corner of Roland and Wyndhurst Avenues. By the 1970s it had become the School of Contemporary Education, and by 2004 it was the Odyssey School.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115013
The Odyssey School at 4906 Roland Avenue at the intersection of Wyndhurst Avenue in Roland Park. Built prior to 1915, it was called "Mrs Swindell's house" in the Bromley Atlas of Baltimore County. By the 1970s it was the School of Contemporary Education.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115009
The Odyssey School at 4906 Roland Avenue at the intersection of Wyndhurst Avenue in Roland Park. Built prior to 1915, it was called "Mrs Swindell's house" in the Bromley Atlas of Baltimore County. By the 1970s it was the School of Contemporary Education.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115010
A classroom in a house which was built prior to 1915, when it was called "Mrs Swindell's house." It was situated at 4906 Roland Avenue at the southwest corner of Roland and Wyndhurst Avenues. By the 1970s it had become the School of Contemporary Education, and by 2004 it was the Odyssey School.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115007
The house at 4906 Roland Avenue on the southwest corner of Roland and Wyndhurst avenues in Roland Park. Built prior to 1915, when it was called "Mrs. Swindell's house," it became the School of Contemporary Education in the 1970s, and by 2004 it had become the Odyssey School.
Schools - Baltimore City - Interior View   7115015
The drawing-room of a house which was built prior to 1915, when it was called "Mrs Swindell's house." It was situated at 4906 Roland Avenue at the southwest corner of Roland and Wyndhurst Avenues. By the 1970s it had become the School of Contemporary Education, and by 2004 it was the Odyssey School. The room is now used as an office for secretaries.
Schools - Bare Hills   DA_00666
to be added
Schools - Boys Manual Training - Catonsville   12123E11
The Boys Manual Labor Training School in Catonsville. The School was built in 1860 at a cost of $16,000 and destroyed by fire March 21, 1916.
Schools - Catonsville   26185343
A structure built before 1910, first used as the Catonsville School, and later known as St. Mark's School. In 2003, the space was occupied by ReVisions. The building is located at 20 Winters Lane, Catonsville.
Schools - Children   8173015
A group of school children and their teacher(s,) probably painted by David F. Painter. They were found in a Beckleysville house used by him, a known photographer of school groups.
Schools - Children   8173029
Exceptional (though imperfect) collection of photos of groups of school children and their teachers, c. 1889 - 1892, from 8 x 10 glass plate negatives, presumably by David F. Painter. They were found in a Beckleysville house once used by Painter, a known photographer of school groups in that period. Some degradation of the emulsion at the sides of all pictures; the images remaining are astonishingly clear and vivid. No I.D.'s of children, teachers, or buildings (all in Baltimore County).
Schools - Children   8173002
Unidentified 8 x 10 group pictures of school children, and some teachers. Outdoor pictures, with some elements of school buildings shown, though not enough to I.D. buildings. probably north Baltimore County schools, probably c. 1889 and early 1890's. Found in a house in Beckleysville formerly inhabited by David F. Painter, who specialised in school and other group pictures in that period. Substantial emulsion loss in parts of most plates; what remains is incredibly crisp & interesting.

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