Walking Tours

Enjoy Chesapeake cuisine with a pile of crabs or a succulent rockfish. Experience music, food, and interactive exhibits in the many attractions, museums, restaurants, pubs and clubs.

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY TOUR (Self-guided)
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: The Preservation Society
Contact name: Jeanie Foster
Reservations: 410-675-6750, ext.16; Reservations necessary: No
Length of tour: Individual pace
Time: Self-guided
Days: Seven
Departure location: Fell's Point Visitors Center (812 South Ann Street)
Individual price: Free
Group price: Free
Web address: www.preservationsociety.com
Self-guided tour of Fell's Point architectural heritage.

ARCHITECTURAL / HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR OF MT. VERNON PLACE
Location: Mount Vernon
Company name: Mount Vernon Cultural District
Contact name: Lisa Keir
Reservations: 410-605-0462; Reservations necessary: No
Length of tour: 1½ hours
Time: 4 p.m. (Thursdays); 10 a.m. (Saturdays)
Days: Thursdays and Saturdays, May through September
Departure location: Seated lion statue, located in Mt. Vernon Place
Individual price: $8 per person
Group price: $7 per person with a minimum of 10
Web address: www.mvcd.org
The mansions of Mt. Vernon Place were Baltimore's most prestigious addresses, home to rail barons, diplomats, bankers, philanthropists and socialites. Beginning with the Washington Monument in 1815 and ending with the Peabody Institute's Leakin Hall in 1926, the magnificent buildings of Mt. Vernon Place are an unparalleled collection of 19th century architecture.

BONDS OF HISTORY
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: The Preservation Society
Contact name: Jeanie Foster
Reservations: 410-675-6750, ext.16; Reservations necessary: Yes
Length of tour: About 1½ - 2 hours
Time: 10 a.m.
Days: Third Saturday of the month (April through November)
Departure location: Fell's Point Visitors Center (812 South Ann Street)
Individual price: $10
Group price: $5 for students and $10 for adults for groups of 12 or more
Web address: www.preservationsociety.com
Slavery shaped America, shattered America and played a large role in helping to create America. Fell's Point was a center for the domestic slave trade. This tour tells the story of slavery along the streets and wharves of this domestic district. Presented by historians Phillip Merrill and Ralph Clayton.

CIVIL WAR WALKING TOUR
Location: Inner Harbor
Company name: Baltimore Civil War Museum
Contact name: Sarah Scanlan
Reservations: 410-385-5188; Reservations necessary: No
Length of tour: 1 - 1½ hours
Time: 1 p.m.
Days: First Sunday of May, June, July, August and September
Departure location: Baltimore Civil War Museum - President Street Station, 601 President Street
Individual price: $6 per person (includes admission to the museum)
Group price: $4 per person for groups of 10 or more (includes admission to museum)
Web address: www.mdhs.org
An interpreter of the 1861 Pratt Street Riot leads a tour of downtown Baltimore from President Street Station to Camden Station. During the one and one-half hour tour, participants will follow the trail of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers as they defend themselves against crowds of Southern sympathizers.

"ELLIS ISLAND" OF BALTIMORE
Location: Fell's Point to Locust Point
Company name: The Preservation Society
Contact name: Jeanie Foster
Reservations: 410-675-6750, ext.16; Reservations necessary: Yes
Length of tour: About 1½ - 2 hours
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Days: Third Saturday of the month (starts July 2002)
Departure location: Fell's Point Visitors Center (812 South Ann Street)
Individual price: $10
Group price: $5 for students and $10 for adults for groups of 12 or more
Web address: www.preservationsociety.com
Baltimore was second only to Ellis Island as a port of immigration. Many of the waterfront neighborhoods have retained their strong ethnic identities. Explore immigration sites and hear stories of exodus and assimilation into a new culture and country. Presented jointly by the Baltimore Immigration Museum and the Preservation Society.

FELL'S POINT GHOST WALK
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: The Preservation Society
Contact name: Jeanie Foster
Reservations: 410-675-6750, ext.16; Reservations necessary: Yes
Length of tour: About 1½ - 2 hours
Time: 7 p.m.
Days: Fridays (April through November)
Departure location: Fell's Point Visitors Center (812 South Ann Street)
Individual price: $10
Group price: $5 for students and $10 for adults for groups of 12 or more
Web address: www.preservationsociety.com
Spirits abound in Fell's Point, and so do ghostly tours led by living history characters drawn from over 250 years of a past rich with panache and pathos. Orbs and vortices (spirits that have shown up in photos) are commonplace, day or night, so bring your cameras and infrared devices - we supply the EMF (electro magnetic field) monitors!

THE ORIGINAL FELL'S POINT GH0STWALK
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: Fell's Point Ghost Tours
Contact name: Amy Lynwander or Melissa Garland
Tickets: $12. Purchase tickets at www.fellspointghost.com or by phone through Connect Baltimore, 1-877-225-8466 and press “0” from 9am – 5pm, Monday- Friday. Advance ticket cut-off 4:00 pm Friday. If tickets are available after the cut-off, they will be sold on-site tour night from 6pm-7pm.
Length of tour: One hour
Time: 7 p.m.
Days: Saturdays, 7pm, March through the end of November
          Fridays, 7pm, July through the first week of November
Departure location: Max’s on Broadway, 737 South Broadway, Fell's Point
Individual price: $12
Group tours and packages available, call 410-522-7400.
Web address: www.fellspointghost.com
Pirates, ladies of the night, rioters, and men and women from around the world have called Fell's Point home. Some have never left! Join your guide under the cover of night to explore the many haunted pubs, shops, and residences. But don't stray too far from the group because you never know when you'll find yourself face-to-face with the unknown. Named "Best Tour" City Paper’s, Best of Baltimore, 2002 and 2003. Ranked #2 ghost tour nationwide by DigitalCity.com, 2003.

FELL'S POINT WALKING TOUR
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: The Preservation Society
Contact name: Jeanie Foster
Reservations: 410-675-6750, ext.16; Reservations necessary: Yes
Length of tour: Two hours
Time: 10 a.m. - noon (meet at 9:30 a.m.)
Days: Every third Saturday monthly (April through November)
Departure location: Fell's Point Visitors Center (812 South Ann Street)
Individual price: $10
Group price: $5 for students and $10 for adults for groups of 12 or more
Web address: www.preservationsociety.com
Join us for a walking tour of Fell's Point - its splendid collection of 18th and 19th century buildings, its colorful people, and the maritime industry and commerce of Baltimore's original deep-water port.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS "PATH TO FREEDOM" WALKING TOUR
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: Baltimore African American Tourism Council
Contact name: Louis Fields
Reservations: 410-783-5469; Reservations Necessary: Yes
Time: 9:30 -10:45 am
Days:Saturdays, 4/26, 5/10, 6/7, 6/14, 7/19, 8/30, 9/6,
9/20, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/22, 12/13.
Departure location: Broadway & Thames near the Water Taxi
Group price: $3 discount for students and groups of four or more
Web address: www.baltimoreblackheritagetours.com
Walk in the footsteps of young Frederick Douglass along the historic waterfront of Fell's Point. Home to enslaved Africans and free blacks, a haven for runaways, and the place where Frederick Douglas came of age; Fell's Point was Baltimore's original seaport and shipbuilding center. The tour is led by Louis C. Fields, executive director of the Baltimore African American Tourism Council.

THE IRISH SHRINE AT LEMMON STREET
Location: Railroad Historical District
Company name: Railroad Historical District Corp
Reservations: 410-669-8154
Length of tour: The first half of the tour takes about 1½ hours. After a 45 minute lunch break, the second half of the tour goes to St. Peter's Cemetery, which is about a 15 minute drive from the B&O Railroad Museum.
Time: Call or visit Web site for times
Days: Saturdays begining October 3, 2002
Departure location: B&O Museum parking lot, (901 West Pratt Street )
Individual price: Free
Group price: Free
Web address: www.irishshrine.org/
The Irish Shrine at Lemmon Street is a historic site that celebrates the history of the immense Irish presence in Southwest Baltimore City in the late 1840's. Currently under construction, this site consists of a group of 5 alley houses where the Irish immigrants who worked for the adjoining B&O Railroad lived. Two of the houses, 918 and 920 Lemmon St., will become the Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Memorial, a self-guided interpretive site that will allow visitors to look into a furnished house and see how its original working class inhabitants lived.

MARITIME HISTORY
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: The Preservation Society
Contact name: Jeanie Foster
Reservations: 410-675-6750, ext.16; Reservations necessary: Highly recommended
Length of tour: About 1½ - 2 hours
Time: 10 a.m.
Days: Second and fourth Saturday of the month (April through November)
Departure location: Fell's Point Visitors Center (812 South Ann Street)
Individual price: $10
Group price: $5 for students and $10 for adults for groups of 12 or more
Web address: www.preservationsociety.com
Learn about the homes, businesses and lives of sea captains, ship builders, seamen and immigrants in the 18th century maritime community. Presented by local historian and author Geoffrey Footner.

ROBERT LONG HOUSE & GARDEN WALKING TOUR
Location: Fell's Point
Company name: The Preservation Society
Contact name: Jeanie Foster
Reservations: 410-675-6750, ext.16; Reservations necessary: Yes
Length of tour: About 20 minutes
Time: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
Days: Seven days a week
Departure location: Fell's Point Visitors Center (812 South Ann Street)
Individual price: $10
Group price: $5 for students and $10 for adults for groups of 12 or more
Web address: www.preservationsociety.com
Tour Baltimore's oldest surviving urban residence (circa 1765) and 18th century garden.