Preservation Maryland

The flag that inspired America’s national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was sewn in a small brick house in Baltimore City—and that building still stands.

Happy Birthday to Frank Lloyd Wright! Did you know the architect of Falling Water, Taliesin, and the Guggenheim Museum, designed two homes in Maryland? And both houses display the diversity and range in Wright’s design style and architectural creativity.

Memorial Day, the day Americans set aside to remember those who fell in the service of the nation, is a day filled with parades, speeches and moving remembrances of the loved and lost.

On this day in 1837, Arunah Shepherdson Abell published the first issue of The Sun from Baltimore, Maryland.