Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820; Catholic Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial...
The historic Baltimore Basilica at the time the postcard was published was still a cathedral only. It was built by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect of the Capitol, during the years 1806-1821. It became the first Catholic Cathedral in the...