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Environmental view looking from above West Lanvale Street on North Arlington Avenue (note park is on photographer's left) - Sellers Mansion, 801 North Arlington Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
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Rosenthal, James W.
Title
Environmental view looking from above West Lanvale Street on North Arlington Avenue (note park is on photographer's left) - Sellers Mansion, 801 North Arlington Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Description
Davis, Edward; Rosenthal, James W, photographer; Perschler, Martin J, project manager; Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Depicted place Maryland; Independent City; Baltimore
Date Documentation compiled after 1933; 2004
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS MD-1146-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The only detached private residence to occupy a prominent corner lot on Lafayette Square, and one of the first residences constructed here, the Sellers Mansion set the neighborhood standard for fashionable living. Built, it is said, in 1868 for Matthew Bacon Sellers, a Louisiana plantation owner and future president of the Northern Central Railway, the three-story brick house with a mansard roof rivaled its contemporaries in size, quality of craftsmanship, and attention to detail. Its carved stone lintels, patterned slate roof, original roof cresting, and, especially, its classicizing porticoes, one of which still retains its elegantly carved wood Corinthian columns, identified this household as one of taste and affluence. The house suited the professional status of both its builder and subsequent owner, the aforementioned Matthew Bacon Sellers and his namesake, Matthew, Jr., an aviation pioneer and presidential (under Woodrow Wilson) to the Aerodynamic Laboratory Commission, whose recommendations led to the creation of NASA.

The house was designed by Edward Davis, architect.

  • Survey number: HABS MD-1146
  • Building/structure dates: 1868-1869 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 01001369.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1602.photos.573810p
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Object location39° 17′ 25.01″ N, 76° 36′ 45″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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