Henry August Rowland House - Baltimore MD
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Don.Morfe
N 39° 18.030 W 076° 37.046
18S E 360534 N 4351371
Henry Augustus Rowland was a Physicist who built the physics department at Johns Hopkins University. He lived at 915 Cathedral Street in Baltimore from 1889 to his death in 1901. This building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Waymark Code: WM17CDF
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/25/2023
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THE PLACE:
The Henry August Rowland House is located on the north side of Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood, at the northeast corner of Cathedral and Brexton Streets. It is the southern of two adjacent row houses, which are typical of brick rowhouses built in the fashionable residential area in the 1880s. It is three stories in height, built out of red brick, and topped by a flat roof with a projecting carved wooden cornice. It is three bays wide, with the entrance in the rightmost bay, sheltered by an elaborate surround topped a shallow projecting bracketed hood. The building interior was reported in 1975 to be in good condition, with original features including a working dumbwaiter.
THE PERSON:
Henry August (or Augustus) Rowland purchased the house in 1889 or 1890 and lived there until his death in 1901. His wife and daughter continued to live there after his death. He was educated as a physicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in Germany, and was hired in 1876 by Daniel Coit Gilman to help build the physics department of Johns Hopkins University. His achievements include advancements in tools and understanding of magnetism, and the development of a formula for translating heat into mechanical work. His best known work is in the development of a high-precision diffraction grating for doing spectral analysis. Isaac Asimov characterized Rowland as "one of the few important 19th century American physicists."
The above is from Wikipedia
Year it was dedicated: 1889
Location of Coordinates: Building Entrance
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Type of place/structure you are waymarking: building
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