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Homewood Museum’s Historic Privy: Renovation and Reconsideration

Posted on July 7, 2023 by amulvihill

Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, carpenters, masons, and painters worked to restore the interior of Homewood Museum’s historic privy. Built between 1801 and 1804, when construction on the […]


On the Road With a JH Alum: Bruce Wade and the Legacy of Johns Hopkins Geology

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Margaret Burri

[Today’s post is written by a classmate of mine, Dr. Patricia Maurice. A 1982 graduate of Hopkins, Patricia is a professor emerita in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering […]


Meet our Freshman Fellows: Amy Li on Coeducation

Posted on February 8, 2023 by kcarey

Enjoy this post by Amy Li, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year!  Welcome to my first blog post! My name is Amy Li, and […]


Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Katherine Budinger on Hopkins Yearbooks through History

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Jim Stimpert

Enjoy this post by Katherine Budinger, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year! Hello! I am Katherine Budinger, and I have dedicated my time over […]


99 Years Ago Today: At the Intersection of Hopkins History and Family History

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Brooke Shilling
Alumni Memorial Building

On March 28, 1923, my great-grandfather, John Edgar Shilling, died on the Homewood campus at age thirty-three.  He was not employed by the university, nor was he a student.  According […]


Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Katherine Budinger on Yearbooks

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Jim Stimpert

Enjoy this post by Katherine Budinger, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year! “When we think of the time, money, and effort engulfed by one […]


Spooky Season at JHU Museums

Posted on October 26, 2021 by mfitzgerald
Disney's Haunted Mansion

It’s the time of year when the weather cools, the leaves change, and people gather round to hear their favorite scary or odd stories. This year, the staff at JHU […]


JHU Museums’ Architectural Tour of Baltimore

Posted on October 20, 2021 by mfitzgerald
Mansion House

The neighborhoods around Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library have changed greatly since the houses were constructed in 1801 and 1858, respectively. Both estates were used as country “villas” […]


Black History Month at Homewood: Honoring Enslaved People at Homewood Museum

Posted on February 25, 2021 by mfitzgerald

The story of Homewood and slavery did not end when Harriet Carroll left Homewood in 1816, taking the Ross family with her to Philadelphia. Homewood remained in the hands of the Carroll family until 1838, during which time many of the individuals enslaved by Charles Carroll of Homewood were relocated to another Carroll estate, Doughoregan […]


Black History Month at Homewood: The Dining Room and the Politics of Plenty

Posted on February 24, 2021 by mfitzgerald
Homewood Museum Dining Room

In honor of Black History Month, JHU Museums’ curators have prepared a series of blog posts about the enslaved community at Homewood in the early 1800s. Today’s post examining the roles of enslaved workers in dining and entertaining at historic Homewood is the second post in a series of three. To read the first blog […]


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