Baltimore is a relatively young city when compared to others on the East Coast. However, the merchant princes and other elites who dominated this boomtown at the turn of the nineteenth century and in later years had the same aspirations as their business partners in the older cities. The rural retreat or country villa was a social and health necessity. Join architect and architectural historian W. Peter Pearre on a chronolgical exploration of Baltimore's early country estates based on surviving physical and documentary evidence.

This is the second talk in Homewood Museum's architecture lecture series, Rural Retreats: The Country House and its Landscape, presented as part of Baltimore Architecture Month. 1 LU (AIA) will be available.

5pm reception at Homewood Museum, Johns Hopkins University (34th and Charles Sts., Baltimore, MD 21218)
6pm lecture nearby in Gilman Hall, Room 50

Free parking in the Johns Hopkins Club lot, accessible from JHU's West Gate at 3500 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.

Image: Homewood (detail), by Francis Guy. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Lydia Howard de Roth and Nancy H. DeFord Venable, in memory of their Mother, Lydia Howard DeFord; and Purchase Fund. BMA 1966.26.11.