Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park
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Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park is a park in Baltimore, Maryland, constituting a contiguous area of 1,216 acres. It was envisioned as a "stream valley park" to protect Baltimore's watersheds, including the G
Orianda Mansion ("Crimea") in Leakin Park
People meeting in the blooming Magnolia Grove
The Magnolia Grove in bloom, seen from above
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Thomas and William Winans
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Thomas DeKay Winans and his brother, William Louis Winans, were 19th-century American engineers and entrepreneurs who amassed a fortune by constructing one of the era's largest industrial projects: th
Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park
…so near the city, surrounded by all the various majestic features of a rocky mountainous country." Leakin Park contains the former country estate of Thomas Winans, a Baltimore native and son of railroad pioneer Ross Winans. His estate was originally named Orianda, but is now known as the Crimea Mansion. The Eagle…
Thomas Winans c. 1870s from a photo by Bachrach. Page 282.
Thomas de Kay Winans. Russian troika. 1847.
The bridge over the Msta river (watercolor, 1851)
Alexandroffsky estate in Baltimore