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of no particular architectural distinction. It is a three-story brick row house with a gabled roof. Its facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the leftmost bay, set in a rounded-arch opening. Windows are in unadorned rectangular openings with stone sills, and a wood-frame shed-roof
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dormer extends across the roof. The house was renovated in 1945, when the cornice was replaced, the front sandblasted, and the interior divided into three apartments.
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from 1901 to 1913, and influenced a generation of chemists and chemistry researches with his textbooks and pedagogical methods. This house was listed on the
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neighborhood, on the north side of West Monument Street at its junction with Tyson Street. The house is a typical
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in 1876 to help build its chemistry department. His most notable research discovery was
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The house is notable as the residence between 1901 and 1925 of
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The Ira Remsen House stands on the west side of Baltimore's
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Category:National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Ira Remsen House is located in Baltimore
Ira Remsen House is located in Maryland
Ira Remsen House is located in the United States
Monument Street
Baltimore, Maryland
39°17′51″N 76°37′10″W / 39.29750°N 76.61944°W / 39.29750; -76.61944
75002102
Baltimore, Maryland
row house
Ira Remsen
Johns Hopkins University
National Register of Historic Places
National Historic Landmark
Mount Vernon
row house
Ira Remsen
Johns Hopkins University
saccharine
Daniel Coit Gilman
List of National Historic Landmarks in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Baltimore


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