Design for an entrance to the Baltimore Mount Orange Cemetery [graphic] / T.U. Walter, arch.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887.

Contributor:

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--Maryland--Baltimore.

Gates.

North Ave. & Loney's Lane (Baltimore, Md.).

Mt. Orange Cemetery (Baltimore, Md.) Entrance gate.

Local Subjects:

North Ave. & Loney's Lane (Baltimore, Md.).

Mt. Orange Cemetery (Baltimore, Md.) Entrance gate.

Physical Description:

1 drawing : ink & wash on paper ; 34 x 53.5 cm.

Contained In:

Walter, Thomas Ustick. Architectural drawings collection.

Place of Publication:

[1838-1839]

Notes:

Walter's account book for this period, located in the Athenaeum's Walter Archives, gives entries beginning Dec. 1, 1838 and runs through May 6, 1839. Walter appears to have created designs for the entrance lodge including one in the Egyptian style, plans for the cemetery, and designs for a chapel, and well as "a design for a gateway on a new site" (May 6, 1939). The gate as show in the drawing cataloged here is in a gothic style with towers on either side of the arches gateway. Walter files name his clients as Jacob Frick and Joel B. Sutherland.

The Baltimore sun, 7/22/1841, pg.1, col.3 has the following advertisement "Baltimore Mount Orange Cemetery, situate at the north-east corner of the city of Baltimore, contains between fifty and sixty acres of land, bounded on the south by North Avenue, and on the west by Loney's Lane, continued northward beyond the city line ... The cemetery is now ready for the reception of the dead; it has been enclosed, at the expense of the proprietors, with a substantial palisade fence ...". After this date, however, verification of the cemetery is hard to find, and it may have failed or been absorbed by neighborhood changes early in the nineteenth century.

Form part of: Walter, Thomas Ustick. Architectural drawings collection.

Cited in:

Laverty, v.1, p. 236, WTU*023/001