Severn Teackle Wallis
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Severn Teackle Wallis was an American lawyer and politician.
Statue of Wallis in Baltimore
Baltimore City College
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Baltimore City College, known colloquially as City, City College, and B.C.C., is a college preparatory school with a liberal arts focus and selective admissions criteria located in Baltimore, Maryland. Opened in October 1839, B.C.C. is the third-oldest active public high school in the United States. City College is a public exam school and an International Baccalaureate World School at which students in the ninth and tenth grades participate in the IB Middle Years Programme while students in the eleventh and twelfth grades participate in the IB Diploma Programme.
An 1869 print of Central High School of Baltimore (later Baltimore City College); the old "Assembly-Rooms" building of the old Baltimore Dancing Assembly was built in 1797 and its third floor was added in 1835 on northeast corner of Holliday and East Fayette Streets. It was occupied from 1843 to 1873.
Rendering of the Baltimore City College first building (of two) on site at North Howard Street alongside West Centre Street. Completed in 1875, it was designed by Baltimore City Hall municipal architect, George A. Frederick, collapsed 1892 during construction of the Howard Street Tunnel by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
"The Castle on the Hill", Baltimore City College, winter 2009-10