William H. Welch House
Description and history
The William H. Welch House is located on the northeast side of Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood, on the east side of St. Paul Street just south of its junction with East Eager Street. It is the right side of a pair of mirror-image three-story brick rowhouses, which share a cornice with the corner building immediately on their left. The main entrance is in the leftmost of three bays, framed by an elaborate surround that has paneled pilasters, a half-round transom, and a bracketed cornice. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with slightly corniced lintels. The building has no particular architectural significance.
William H. Welch lived in this house from about 1891 to 1908, and at the now-altered 807 St. Paul Street from then until his death. Welch, educated Yale and Columbia in medicine and chemistry, after which he spend four years in Europe (mainly at universities in what is now Germany) absorbing the medical and research practices there. After being offered a position at the new Johns Hopkins University in 1883, he again traveled to Europe, after which he established a research laboratory modeled on those he saw at German universities. He was influential in training a whole generation of medical researches in these practices, effectively propelling medical research in the United States to a level comparable to the state of the art seen in Europe.
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Baltimore
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Welch, William Henry, House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved June 17, 2008.
- ^ Johns Hopkins Medicine:The Four Founding Professors
- ^ James Sheire (August 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: William H. Welch House" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ "Baltimore National Heritage Area Map" (PDF). City of Baltimore. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
External links
- William H. Welch House, Baltimore City, including photo in 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust