Clifton Park

Clifton Park
Site Information
Other Name	Clifton
Address	2801 Harford Road
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Above Sea-level (ft)	200
Acreage	266.7
Type of facility	Park
People
Founder	Henry Thompson; Johns Hopkins
Owner	Mayor & City Council of Baltimore
Landscape Architect	Olmsted Brothers
Other designers	Simon J Martenet
National Register of Historic Places
ID Number	07000941

This page is for Clifton Park in the aggregate. Clifton Mansion and the Gardener's Cottage in the park have their own pages.

Johns Hopkins’ Clifton (1850-), 39°19′15″N 76°34′58″W

1852 Thomas P.Chiffelle, detail from Map of the City of Baltimore and of part of Baltimore County, including the Valley of the Great Gunpowder River from the Warren factory to Tide Water courtesy of Johns Hopkins, http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/34971

Main access roads at Clifton, 1874, detail from Martenet map of Clifton, https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/34266/Clifton.jpg?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Location:

bounded by Harford Rd., Erdman Ave., Clifton Park Terrace, the Baltimore Belt RR and Sinclair Ln., Baltimore, Maryland

• Coordinates: 39°19′15″N 76°34′58″W
• Area: 266.7 acres (107.9 ha)
• Built: 1801?, remodeled and tower added, ca. 1850?
• Architectural style: Italian Villa
• NRHP reference No. 07000941[1]; Added to NRHP: September 12, 2007

Johns Hopkins acquired Clifton in 1841 from the Trustees of Thompson sale (BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT Land Records 1841-1841 TK 306, p. 0393ff MSA CE 66-356).

By February 5, 1852 the main house renovations/rebuilding were complete.

• See Baltimore Sun, February 5, 1852

Architects for Hopkins' renovations: Niernsee & Neilson; Wyatt and Nolting; Olmsted Brothers (Thomas, Frederick)

Builders and craftsmen, ca. 1850 who may have been employing slaves:

• James Murray, bricklayer
• James (Jas.) Sullivan, painter
• Andrew Merken, iron worker
• John Rothrock, roofing
• Bevan & Sons, stonework
• Hayward, Bartlett & Co. plumbing
• J.W. & H. T Gernhardt, glass stainers
• George W. Starr, plasterer

An 1895 scheme to subdivide the estate.

Google Drive documents, spreadsheets, images, and documentation [Requires permission to access. These are ecp's rough notes and documentation on his Google Drive]