The library just took my breath away! I love that the home was passed down through generations and then donated to the John Hopkins University. I love that it has been preserved in its mostly original form and furnishings. Thank you for this.
We have so many wonderful buildings here in our struggling city of Baltimore - so much history and beautiful architecture. Thank you, Ken, for featuring one of the jewels of the city. Those tiles in the kitchen are beautiful - it's a shame no family member would have ever seen them. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are always impressive. Truly a book-lover's paradise. Nonetheless, that 23-karat bathroom is the crowning glory. Thanks, Ken, for displaying this amazing home.
I have to say, *all* the rooms were my favorite rooms. What an absolute insane and lovely place, and so nice to see rooms denoted as “libraries” actually containing books!
3:50 I was very impressed with the incredible rooms in this house, but my eye caught the "book elevator" that was part of the floor that enabled heavy books to not have to be carried up and down the stairway to the basement! Thank you so much for this incredible tour. I have found that because of the lack of fire escapes tour groups rarely take you up to the level with the bedrooms or higher. One would have to be privileged enough to have a private small tour to see above the floors without fire exits for the tour groups.
I'm a book lover and have boxes of unread books in my efficiency apartment, but Evergreen mansion is book-loving on steroids! And good for the people who brought and kept all those books in the house. --- I've seen the front of Evergreen before, hadn't realized how much there is to the house. Wonderful place.
This is my FAVORITE house of your videos! I LOVE the library and additional areas for books. I am obsessed with books and have collected them for my entire life. Unfortunately I don’t have the room to keep them readily at hand….EXCELLENT PRESENTATION AS ALWAYS!
I love the impressive portico and the vine-motif metal door. The library and books are incredible! So glad to learn they have been preserved. The gold bathroom is definitely a show-stoppper, and hard to forget!
I had a chance to visit here in 2022 and it is a spectacular house. Hard to pick a favorite, although I always favor the libraries, and this one is amongst the grandest I have ever seen. But I was also enchanted by the theater, so unexpected and delightful. Thanks as always for a great exploration!
Wow! I would love to check out their book collection next time I’m in Baltimore. The library was probably my favorite room. At abt. 4:46 you described the furniture as stenciled but I think it is actually either Dutch or Italian marquetry inlaid. Thanks Ken for letting us know about this treasure house!!
I had a trap door in an office I worked in many years ago - it was a fomer Knights of Columbus club house that was abandoned half completed when the stock market crashed in the 1920's.
2 minutes ish the dining room is a bright yellow. I have a picture of it I cut out a magazine decades ago. The hanging panels on the walls have a rich deep red background. It's a beautiful room. My favourite though is the library which I hadn't seen before. Thanks Ken.
Wow, it's hard to pick out the favorite room. I love the library as well as all the books in other areas of the home. The kitchen was amazing, as was the golden bathroom with a fireplace.
This episode was extremely informative. Having lived in Baltimore close to 75 yrs, I never knew of this handsome patriarch and his largesse arising during the gilded age, and wisely maintained for posterity.
Excellent video. I was here and 2 other Baltimore mansions only once so I unfortunately did not remember much about it (except the gold bathroom). Thank you for the memory refresh.
What a beautiful home! And I’m so glad that the family lived there and enjoyed it for such a long time! I would like to sneak in and take a bubble bath in the bathtub with a fire in the fireplace😂
Now this house has a balanced Architecture and Exterior Decor Appeal. Clean lines, appealing colors, it inspires class, clarity, and ease. This continues in the interior, with less and light, it offers a semblance of Balance and Harmony in a period of overwhelming thick layers of overdone. It is largely inviting, and has far less "unnerving" to my senses.
All former mansions of the rich wind up becoming museums if not demolished, which is far better than a damn greedy developer getting their hands on them.
👍 From Calgary Thanks for all the great stories and the way you're able to put it together. Have you ever thought about doing a series on trains or buses planes boats???
I use yo be a professional docent for this house ! The collections are amazing ! And the grounds are stunning ! Very unusual interior design ! I have the entire book on it from My training !
Fun fact: the only person to ever perform on that stage was Mrs Alice Garrett, the lady of the house. Pity for her listeners: apparently she had about as much talent as Florence Foster Jenkins. Her Italian voice teacher even politely suggested she pursue other endeavors.
How many rooms does a family need in their house? I think the whole house is over done. Books and books and more books? Why? Was the library open to the public, I think not. People put so much money into these mansions and very little to educate and feed the poor.
The library room is beautiful. But this is definitely a house, not a home. VERY cold and sterile. The narrow rooms with high ceilings look very claustrophobic, to me.
