George A. Frederick

rdf:langString George A. Frederick

rdf:langString George A. Frederick

rdf:langString George A. Frederick

rdf:langString Baltimore City Hall ; Baltimore City College, , Maryland House of Correction ; Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens of Baltimore,

rdf:langString Repairs to the Maryland State House; Architect to the Baltimore City Board of Parks Commissioners, 1863-1895; Maryland Exposition Building, built 1893 for World's Columbian Exposition

rdf:langString Fellowship with the American Institute of Architects, 1877

rdf:langString George Aloysius Frederick (December 16, 1842 – August 17, 1924) was a German-American architect with a practice in Baltimore, Maryland, where his most prominent commission was the Baltimore City Hall (1867–1875), awarded him when he was only age 21. Later in the late 19th century, he served as the semi-official municipal architect. On December 16, 1842, George Frederick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest child of John Martin, a clerk, and Anna, nee Hild. German immigrants from Bavaria who settled in the city. His parents called him Volishis Georg, but later he Americanized his name to George Aloysius. George had six siblings. He was educated at the Christian Brothers’ School (now Calvert Hall) until age 16. He was accepted as an apprentice with a Baltimore architectural partnership with Lind & Murdoch, architects of the Peabody Institute (1857-1860) at North Charles Street (Washington Place) and East Mount Vernon Place (East Monument Street). He designed structures for Baltimore's extensive Druid Hill Park, then beyond the 1818 northwest city limits, purchased for the city in 1860, and designed by Howard Daniels, Baltimore City Park Commissioners' landscape designer and John H.B. Latrobe, who designed the gateways to the park and the alterations made to the early-19th century Col. Nicholas Rogers mansion "Druid Hill" that already stood on the site. Druid Hill Park ranks with Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park in Manhattan in New York City, begun in 1859, and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia as the oldest landscaped public parks in the United States. Among Frederick's playful structures for Druid Hill Park in Moorish and Chinese styles is the Chinese Station for the horse street car system erected in 1864 and the Moorish Station, which were stops on a narrow-gauge railroad that once wound through the park.