Pleasant View Gardens took its place. My first impression of Pleasant View Gardens was, well, pleasant. The two-story, predominantly brick, sixteen-foot-wide rowhouses line the sidewalks, as is common in Baltimore. There are even stoops. But they are concrete, not marble or limestone, as ...
An earthen forerunner ofFort McHenrywas built in Baltimore during the Revolutionary War, but the British never attacked the city. Construction on Fort McHenry, named after the third Secretary of War James McHenry, began in 1798. When the British did attack the fort during the War of 1812, the...