Stony Run Park
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Site Information |
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Address | 200 block W. Cold Spring Lane |
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Above Sea-level (ft) | 300 |
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Type of facility | Park |
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People |
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Founder | Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad |
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Owner | Mayor & City Council of Baltimore |
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Landscape Architect | Olmsted Brothers |
Path from Stony Run leading up to Oakdale Road
Jillian Storms and Sandy Sparks have lectured extensively on the history of Stony Run Park. See: Olmsted's work in the Stony Run Valley
Olmsted Brothers, 1903, detail of park plan for Baltimore encompassing Stony Run Park between West Cold Spring Lane and Belvedere and Northern Parkway, identifying the entrance to the park at the end of Oakdale Road in Roland Park. Stony Run Park now encompasses the bed of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. Image taken from the map appendix to the 1987 reprint of the
Report from the Development of Public Grounds for Greater Baltimore by Olmsted Brothers, 1904, published by the Friends of Maryland's Olmsted Parks & Landscapes, with annotations to the image by Edward Papenfuse, 2021.
Three plans prepared by Olmsted Brothers are in the collections of the Friends of Frederick Law Olmsted, Maryland State Archives, MdSA 5339-55: