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39-496: On the northwest corner of the present square facing the intersection of Holliday and East Lexington Streets were a set of townhouses that were the sites for the opening of Loyola High School and Loyola College in 1852 by the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus (Jesuits). After a brief time, the two institutions relocated in 1855 to the west side of North Calvert Street between East Madison and Monument Streets in

78-556: A front facade in stone of Greek Revival style which was the most notable playhouse in Baltimore for decades. It is said that the first public singing of the future National Anthem reputedly by Ferdinand Durang , (c.1785-1831), occurred on the stage here in late September 1814, near the end of the War of 1812 , when the poem of "The Defence of Fort McHenry" written by American Georgetown lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key , when he

117-614: A large central Italianate building with a front portico connected to St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church which had been recently completed on the north. They remained here (along with a large similarly styled addition to the south along East Monument Street in the 1890s) until the mid-20th Century with the College relocating in 1922 to its present "Evergreen" campus in North Baltimore City near Homeland community at North Charles Street and East Cold Spring Lane, next door to

156-541: A lot of the structures in the new Druid Hill Park (established 1860) and other city structures. By the time that the theater and its surrounding block (Holliday to Fayette to North Gay to East Lexington Streets) was torn down in 1917, based on the 1910 plans of Frederick Law Olmsted , to make room for the newly laid-out War Memorial Plaza and Building, as a major rearrangement of a proposed new "civic center" of flanking municipal office buildings and structures providing additional space to be used in future decades, covering up

195-605: A middle school. Irish-American Archbishop Francis Kenrick asked the Jesuits to oversee the formation of a school for laymen that would incorporate the Jesuit standards of excellence and build new men conscious of a religious purpose. His request was prompted by the 1852 closure of nearby St. Mary's College. Construction of Loyola High School began on Holliday Street in Baltimore, Maryland , in early 1852, and on September 15, 1852,

234-657: A record of 51–44–8. The Loyola lacrosse program is among its most successful. It has won a total of 14 championships, including 8 in the 1980s and victories in 2001, 2007, 2008, and 2013. In 2007, they defeated Boys' Latin 10–6 in the MIAA championship game. In 2008, they defeated previously undefeated Gilman 12–11 in the championship game at Towson University 's Johnny Unitas Stadium before over 8,000 spectators. Loyola has produced numerous players who have continued on to play collegiate lacrosse, including National Lacrosse Hall of Famer John Stewart. Loyola's baseball team won

273-650: A steeple for the 1806 seminary chapel which had been designed by Maximilian Godefroy . The church in Natchez is similar to Long's contemporary Church of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore. The diocesan see was later translated to Jackson ; the building was designated St. Mary Basilica in 1998. The Church of St. Alphonsus was commissioned by the Redemptorists who had come to Baltimore to tend the German-speaking Catholics. The work entailed not only

312-541: Is also ranked the number one Catholic High School in the Baltimore Area according to the 2022 Niche rankings. Once again in 2023 Loyola was voted Best Private High School in The Baltimore Sun's Best 2023 Readers' Choice Contest. Loyola was named the 2023 Best Independent School for Boys by Baltimore's Child Magazine. In 2024 for the third consecutive year Loyola was ranked the “Best Private School” by

351-498: The Archdiocese of Baltimore . It was established in 1852 by the Jesuits as an all-boys school for students from Baltimore , Baltimore County , Harford County , Carroll County , Howard County , Anne Arundel County , and Southern Pennsylvania . It enrolls over 900 students in grades six through twelve. The school was originally called Loyola High School when it was established in 1852. The name change occurred when it added

390-467: The Baltimore Blast . The program has produced several professional players including Akira Fitzgerald , Grant Robinson , and Avionne Flanagan . The Loyola basketball program reached regional prominence in the 1970s when it was led by head coach Jerry Savage, who won over 600 games from 1969 to 2003. He produced several Division I players. Savage also coached the 1997 MIAA Championship team,

429-706: The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute on the east side of Courtland Street [presently St. Paul Place and Street ] - now near " Preston Gardens" opposite the site of Mercy Hospital (now Mercy Medical for Center) . From its dedication in 1875 to 1917, the new second Baltimore City Hall faced the also the second building of the famed "Old Drury", the nickname of the Holliday Street Theatre rebuilt in brick and stone in 1813, (replacing first playhouse built of wood in 1795), designed by famous local architect Robert Cary Long , with

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468-594: The oldest continual national Catholic high school football rivalries , against cross-town rival Calvert Hall College . The game, known as the Turkey Bowl , is held at Towson University 's Johnny Unitas Stadium in Baltimore and broadcast on television and radio by WMAR-TV . As of the 2023 edition, The Loyola Dons have the overall lead over the Calvert Hall Cardinals in the Turkey Bowl, with

507-561: The " Baltimore City College " in 1866. Founded in 1839, a few blocks away to the northwest on Courtland Street (now St. Paul Street /Place/Preston Gardens, C.H.S. (now the B.C.C.) was later considered to be the third oldest public high school in America. Both influential landmark structures were destroyed in a large disastrous fire in 1873, and the Central High School later moved to new quarters especially built for it by for

546-501: The "after-the-show" crowd at the next door Theatre Tavern, (to the south, towards East Fayette Street between and adjacent to the "Assembly Rooms" on the corner) of Captain McCauley. To its south at the northeast intersection of Holliday with East Fayette Street was the landmark "Old Assembly-Rooms", built also in 1799 by Robert Cary Long, Sr. of Georgian / Federal styled architecture for the old Baltimore Dancing Assembly, founded in

585-460: The 1780s with elaborate decorative chambers and drawing rooms for social dancing, receptions and levees for the upper middle class ladies and gentlemen of the era. On its upper floor were housed the influential Library Company of Baltimore - a non-circulating subscription library founded in the late 1790s and later supplemented with the adjacent Mercantile Library. So the landmark structure was the center of social, cultural and intellectual activities in

624-504: The Baltimore Sun. Robert Cary Long, Jr. Robert Cary Long Jr. (1810–1849) was the son of a late 18th Century - early 19th Century famous architect Robert Cary Long Sr. of Baltimore, Maryland and was himself a well-known 19th Century architect. Like his father, Cary was based in Baltimore . Robert Cary Long Jr. was educated at St. Mary's College in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon graduating, he trained with Ithiel Town at

663-670: The Gothic Revival church, but a convent and rectory, both brick Georgian townhouses, and St. Alphonsus Halle. Construction took place between 1842 and 1845, and was Long's first major project. The church is designed in Southern German neo-Gothic style. The attached rectory served as the provincial headquarters for the Redemptorist Fathers and Brothers. Also known as a well-known local architect, Robert Cary Long Sr. , younger Long's father, also assisted in

702-454: The MIAA "A" Conference title in 2017, its first in 71 years. It has produced Major League baseball players including current Baltimore Oriole, Bruce Zimmermann and Tim Nordbrook . Loyola's swimming and diving team has also achieved success, having recorded a record run of 20 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association state titles in 21 years and six National Catholic Swimming Championships crowns, whilst consistently being ranked within

741-619: The Middle School. The Loyola cross-country program has had much success, being the first and only team in the MIAA to complete the " three-peat ", then continuing to win six consecutive individual and team titles at the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championship meet. Under the coaching of Jose Albornoz and Chris Cucuzzella, the Dons have won 17 MIAA/MSA championships to bring

780-705: The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association national Top-25 Poll for best high school swimming teams. The soccer program have won the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championship on five occasions (2005, 2012, 2014, 2023, 2024) and has produced Division I talent. Former coach Lee Tschantret , a longtime player in the Major Indoor Soccer League , won several championships with

819-632: The city, State and the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior . The plaza contains the statue "Negro Soldier", also originally called the "Negro War Heroes Monument". It was created by local sculptor James E. Lewis in 1971. The statue originally sited at the north end, facing up North Calvert Street at the Battle Monument Square between East Lexington and East Fayette Streets, two blocks west)

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858-405: The construction of Knott Hall which houses the student commons and dining hall, athletic center, and alumni areas, Burk Hall academic wing, renovations to the 60-year-old science laboratories, construction of St. Ignatius Hall, and construction of an additional section to Wheeler Hall. Loyola Blakefield has a tradition of honoring alumni from 50 years earlier at its graduation ceremony. "Bring back

897-580: The construction of the famous iconic old " Assembly Rooms " building which was designed by local landowner Col. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers of " Druid Hill " mansion in 1797. Sited on the northeast corner of Holliday and East Fayette Streets, of Georgian / Federal styled architecture, used for the Baltimore Dancing Assembly with their frequent receptions, dances, social events and soirees along with various intellectuctual and cultural events. Robert Cary Long Sr. also designed "Mount Ida" within

936-595: The early 1920s, dedicated 1925 and is one of many World War I Memorials for "The Great War" throughout the world built in the various participating Allied nations since the conflict of 1914–1918. War Memorial Plaza is a major component of Baltimore's municipal center (aka "civic center") now officially referred to as the Business and Government Historic District and is included in the Baltimore National Heritage Area , under sponsorship of

975-531: The first time by 1875 of Tudor Revival / Jacobethan Revival style of building at the southwest corner of North Howard and West Centre Streets, but the venerable Holliday Street Theatre was rebuilt on its original site and later owned by the famous John T. Ford , (1829–1894), local politician/municipal board member and East Coast playhouse operator, who was also proprietor of the infamous Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. where 16th President Abraham Lincoln

1014-466: The growing Baltimore Town. By the mid-1840s, with the later addition of a third floor replacing its original pitched roof with a pointed stone pediment facing its Fayette Street south side and now with a flat roof with a stone balustrade earlier in 1835, (for illustration of remodeled building, see "Misplaced Pages" entry for "Baltimore City College"), the "Rooms" were occupied by the young men of the then decade-old "Central High School of Baltimore", later renamed

1053-473: The land known today as Blakefield in Towson, Maryland . In 1941, the downtown campus officially closed. Between 1981 and 1988, a Middle School was gradually introduced, and in recognition of the two levels of education, Loyola High School officially became known as Loyola Blakefield. Kenneth Montague became the first African-American student at Loyola in 1956. Physical improvements in recent years have included

1092-664: The landmark " Evergreen Mansion ", (of the Garrett Family railroad and financier family giants) and the High School moved in 1934/1941 to "Blakefield" in west Towson , north of the city in Baltimore County . Inala 1975, the old Loyola complex was converted into a performing arts center for the decade-old Center Stage , which had relocated after a fire the previous year at their space on East North Avenue , between Charles and Calvert Streets . A few doors to

1131-428: The last championship of any sort for the Dons basketball program. Loyola has been in the most Baltimore Catholic League finals with 13 total and 6 championships. More recently, the program had several disappointing seasons and experienced a four-year period with four different head coaches. Since then Josh Davalli, an All-Metro player at Cardinal Gibbons in the mid-1990s, served as varsity head coach while also teaching in

1170-625: The men from 50 years before to see a new generation graduate," writes James Maliszewski, whose grandfather died a year before they could have attended together as 1937 and 1987 graduates. Loyola Blakefield competes in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) for all interscholastic sports. In addition to the MIAA, the basketball team is also a member of the Baltimore Catholic League . The football program won seven conference championships. The Loyola Blakefield football team plays every Thanksgiving Day in one of

1209-772: The office of Martin E. Thompson in New York. A significant portion of Town's work was in the Federal and Greek revival and Gothic revival styles . After the death of his father in 1833, Long returned to Baltimore and continued the practice. One of his early commissions was a finishing school, the Patapsco Female Institute , designed in 1834. He and William Reasin designed the Lloyd Street Synagogue in Greek Revival style . Long

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1248-519: The program's total championships to 18 (1983,1989,1991,1997–98, 2000, 2003, 2005–06, 2009–14, 2017–18, and 2021) since its inception. The Loyola Dons have won the Rugby MIAA Championship a total of nine times: 2008–2010, 2013, 2015–2016, 2018, and 2021–2022. The rugby program has been ranked among the top 50 high schools in the nation. Loyola was voted Best Private School in the Baltimore Sun's 2022 Readers’ Choice Contest. It

1287-517: The school enrolled its first students. Irish-American Rev. John Early , S.J. and eight other Jesuits are credited with the founding of the Loyola. Loyola operated as a component of Loyola University Maryland until its separation in 1921. In the early 1930s the growing and cramped high school began to look toward moving north of the city. In 1933, with the support of the Blake family, Loyola purchased

1326-409: The south in the middle of the block was "Prof. Knapp's School", attended by many German immigrant students including the noted Henry Louis Mencken , (1880-1956), the famed " Baltimore Sun " newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, author and linguist in the late 1880s, just before he graduated and went on to the former "Baltimore Manual Training School" (founded 1883) in the late 1890s (now renamed 1893)

1365-595: The then unsightly canalized stream of Jones Falls to the east with its periodic flooding problems, and to open up a vista of the elaborate east front of the Baltimore City Hall , an influence of the then-nationwide " City Beautiful" movement among architects and city planners then coming to rise. The War Memorial Building was designed by local famous architect Laurence Hall Fowler and originally dedicated to Marylanders who died in World War I and built in

1404-536: Was assassinated in April 1865 after the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Two years after being rebuilt, the theatre was overwhelmed by the massive sized pile of marble and granite French Second Empire styled architecture with construction across the street to the west in the new domed Baltimore City Hall of 1867–1875 by George A. Frederick , (1842–1924), a municipal architect who also designed

1443-536: Was on board an American truce ship anchored downriver on the lower Patapsco River from the British Royal Navy fleet as it bombarded Fort McHenry on Whetstone Point guarding Baltimore Harbor during September 12–14, 1814 several weeks earlier and set to music with the tune "To An Anacreon in Heaven" , a so-called English social society drinking song. It was also reputedly said to be re-sung lustily by

1482-527: Was relocated to War Memorial Plaza in 2007 after 30 years of facing the wrong way on a one-way street. 39°17′27″N 76°36′35″W  /  39.2909°N 76.60964°W  / 39.2909; -76.60964 Loyola Blakefield Loyola Blakefield is a private Catholic , college preparatory school run by the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus in Towson, Maryland and within

1521-530: Was the preferred architect of Episcopal Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham , for whom he designed Mount Calvary Church . The Gothic Revival gateway at Green Mount Cemetery dates to 1839. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows in Natchez, Mississippi was designed around 1842. The on-site supervising architect was James Hardie . The bishop of Natchez was John J. Chanche , former president of St. Mary's College. Two years before, Long had designed for Chanche

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