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Upton Mansion, a historic building in the Upton neighborhood in Baltimore, housed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts from 1947-1954. Once a beautiful facility that was home to a vibrant music community, it has been abandoned since 2006.

This is a photo of Upton Mansion from 1936, eleven years before it housed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts. The Institute was a thriving music school open to all races at a time when Peabody remained closed to African-American students.

Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson and himself a Hopkins alumnus, unveils a plaque in the Alumni Memorial Dormitory commemorating male Hopkins affiliates who died during the war. (There were also casualties among the…

This is one of the first instances of a student holiday celebration, and presumably served Jewish students from outside Baltimore. Rabbi Rosenblatt was a regular lecturer at Hopkins, and published many articles in Jewish journals.