Tag: historic preservation

Preservation Month: How to Reuse a Room

A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts from Joanna click HERE. As decreed in 1973 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, May is Preservation

Good News for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum!

A blog post by Research Historian Dr. Deb Weiner. Recently there was good news in the fight to save the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the endangered building that is Baltimore’s second

The 1845 Mikveh

A graphic rendering of the exterior of the Lloyd Street Synagogue, a large building with columns. The building is pink and grey, with navy shadows and there’s a light blue sky.

About ten years ago the JMM called in archaeologists to investigate beneath the Lloyd Street Synagogue. Much to everyone’s surprise they uncovered the original mikveh complex used by the fledgling