Carol M. Highsmith - Hampden Branch Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Opened to the public on July 2, 1900 as the seventh branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Robert Poole, a resident of Hampden, provided the funds for construction and the initial book collection. The architect was Joseph Evans Sperry. The four cast iron columns on the front porch were produced at the Poole and Hunt foundry, which in 1858 had also provided the columns supporting the U.S. Capitol dome.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:182).
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.