GJMEF Lecture Series: The World the Trains Made...


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2:00 pm

The Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund
Announces its 2017 Lecture & Docent Tour Series
The Legacy of the Garrett Family

James Dilts will compare the homes created by Robert Garrett with those of some of his contemporary industrialists, drawing on his new book, The World the Trains Made; A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada. James Dilts is the author of The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853 as well as A Guide to Baltimore Architecture and Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork

A Tour of the Mansion will be offered at 1 pm prior to the lecture at 2 pm. All tickets are $15. To register, please contact call 410.539.6914 or  email [email protected].



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Engineering Society of Baltimore

11 West Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone: (410) 539-6914
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