Peabody Institute
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The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a private music and dance conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857, it became affiliated with Johns Hopkins
Peabody Institute, East Mount Vernon Place, c. 1902
George Peabody Library (east wing) - built 1878
Johns Hopkins' Historic Dome panoramio
Baltimore City Hall 2
George Peabody
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George Peabody was an American financier and philanthropist. He is often considered the father of modern philanthropy.
Peabody Institute
…conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857, it became affiliated with Johns Hopkins in 1977. Philanthropist and merchant George Peabody (1795–1869) founded the institute in 1857 and opened it in 1866 with a bequest of about $800,000. This sum, from his personal fortune, was amassed…
Peabody in c. 1850
Peabody's birthplace, now the George Peabody House Museum, in Peabody, Massachusetts
The Peabody Trust continues to provide cheap housing in central London. This sign marks the Horseferry Road Estate in Westminster.
The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London. A wood-engraving published in The Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.