A Library with a Trap-Door: Exploring Baltimore's Evergreen Mansion
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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Step into history as we explore the grandiose mansion of 19th-century railroad tycoon, John Garrett, a testament to America's Gilded Age. We take a journey through time, across 48 rooms and 26 acres of pristine gardens, unraveling hidden secrets and indulging in the opulence of the past. With a collection of over 30,000 books, gold-clad bathrooms, a secret trap door, and an in-house theater, the Garrett mansion has stories to tell.
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The library just took my breath away! I love that the home was passed down through generations and then donated to the John Hopkins University. I love that it has been preserved in its mostly original form and furnishings. Thank you for this.
It's nice to hear a story of a happy family enjoying their house for years and then donating it to a worthy place/cause!
We have so many wonderful buildings here in our struggling city of Baltimore - so much history and beautiful architecture. Thank you, Ken, for featuring one of the jewels of the city. Those tiles in the kitchen are beautiful - it's a shame no family member would have ever seen them. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are always impressive. Truly a book-lover's paradise. Nonetheless, that 23-karat bathroom is the crowning glory. Thanks, Ken, for displaying this amazing home.
Personally, I wouldn’t consider pooping on a toilet of less than 24 karat. How utterly gauche!
my working class upbringing loves the kitchen, the roman in me loves the bathroom...what a beautiful house and great way to leave a legacy! 👋
I love the kitchen too, that stove is great
Best period bathroom of any house shown so far, IMO.
3:50 I was very impressed with the incredible rooms in this house, but my eye caught the "book elevator" that was part of the floor that enabled heavy books to not have to be carried up and down the stairway to the basement! Thank you so much for this incredible tour. I have found that because of the lack of fire escapes tour groups rarely take you up to the level with the bedrooms or higher. One would have to be privileged enough to have a private small tour to see above the floors without fire exits for the tour groups.
I have to say, *all* the rooms were my favorite rooms. What an absolute insane and lovely place, and so nice to see rooms denoted as “libraries” actually containing books!
I'm a book lover and have boxes of unread books in my efficiency apartment, but Evergreen mansion is book-loving on steroids! And good for the people who brought and kept all those books in the house. --- I've seen the front of Evergreen before, hadn't realized how much there is to the house. Wonderful place.
Nice to see a wedding cake facade that isn't completely white. The yellow adds beautiful contrast to all that ornamentation.
I had a trap door in an office I worked in many years ago - it was a fomer Knights of Columbus club house that was abandoned half completed when the stock market crashed in the 1920's.
Wow, it's hard to pick out the favorite room. I love the library as well as all the books in other areas of the home. The kitchen was amazing, as was the golden bathroom with a fireplace.
This is my FAVORITE house of your videos! I LOVE the library and additional areas for books. I am obsessed with books and have collected them for my entire life. Unfortunately I don’t have the room to keep them readily at hand….EXCELLENT PRESENTATION AS ALWAYS!
This home is lovely & I'm glad that it's open for the public to enjoy!!! My favorite room is definitely the library!!! 👍👍🙂
I love the Reading room and the library but then I love books. I love all the spaces with books.
I love the impressive portico and the vine-motif metal door. The library and books are incredible! So glad to learn they have been preserved. The gold bathroom is definitely a show-stoppper, and hard to forget!
It was nice to see some more color photos .
JOHNS Hopkins University. It was drummed into us - the "S" on Johns.
That said, gotta visit this!
Wow! Part of that is a library with a house built around it. I'm not a book person, but the library was my favorite. I definitely need to go visit!
The woodworking in the staircase was awesome. I love the library and the cabinets in the butler’s pantry. So much beautiful woodwork!
Normally my answer to your question on which is my favourite room it usually is the library . . . but in this house? . . . great video Ken.
Loved the bathroom with the mosaic tile fireplace!❤
Ken! This is my favourite yet! Thank you! The library-house is the perfect house…who said "if a house has a garden and a library…"? WOW!
This episode was extremely informative. Having lived in Baltimore close to 75 yrs, I never knew of this handsome patriarch and his largesse arising during the gilded age, and wisely maintained for posterity.
2 minutes ish the dining room is a bright yellow. I have a picture of it I cut out a magazine decades ago. The hanging panels on the walls have a rich deep red background. It's a beautiful room. My favourite though is the library which I hadn't seen before. Thanks Ken.
Wow! I would love to check out their book collection next time I’m in Baltimore. The library was probably my favorite room. At abt. 4:46 you described the furniture as stenciled but I think it is actually either Dutch or Italian marquetry inlaid. Thanks Ken for letting us know about this treasure house!!
I had a chance to visit here in 2022 and it is a spectacular house. Hard to pick a favorite, although I always favor the libraries, and this one is amongst the grandest I have ever seen. But I was also enchanted by the theater, so unexpected and delightful. Thanks as always for a great exploration!
Thanks for another great video. I'm so glad the house has been preserved so well.
As a Librarian I approve of this house (holy crap!)
Love the library. So many books throughout the house
Incredible House! I really like the theater room. Very Special! ❤
Interesting tour. Thank you.
The kitchen was the best! The stove was 🔥!
6:50
thank you!
luv the gold? toilet!😁
Another fascinating episode. So well done. Thank you!
Finally a house with enough book cases!
The library! The books!😍
The library was amazing, and the acoustics I'd have to imagine would be quite muffled with the book-lined walls!
It would be spnfun to have a huge home library, i think people might not ever see me again! Unless the came to the library
Excellent video. I was here and 2 other Baltimore mansions only once so I unfortunately did not remember much about it (except the gold bathroom). Thank you for the memory refresh.
The kitchen was a dream!🥰
Now this house has a balanced Architecture and Exterior Decor Appeal.
Clean lines, appealing colors, it inspires class, clarity, and ease.
This continues in the interior, with less and light, it offers a semblance of Balance and Harmony in a period of overwhelming thick layers of overdone.
It is largely inviting, and has far less "unnerving" to my senses.
The library and reading room were my favorites. It is a stunning house!
The outside entrance to the house says it all.
What a beautiful home! And I’m so glad that the family lived there and enjoyed it for such a long time! I would like to sneak in and take a bubble bath in the bathtub with a fire in the fireplace😂
All former mansions of the rich wind up becoming museums if not demolished, which is far better than a damn greedy developer getting their hands on them.
Superb home! My favorite space was the additional book storage area, which very much is reminiscent of the Gould Memorial Library in the Bronx.
Shoutout too my hometown of Maryland
I use yo be a professional docent for this house ! The collections are amazing ! And the grounds are stunning ! Very unusual interior design ! I have the entire book on it from My training !
Loving the library!
Beautiful!!!
The library!
This rivals any of the Vanderbuilt mansions
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Thanks for all the great stories and the way you're able to put it together. Have you ever thought about doing a series on trains or buses planes boats???
Far East Room FAV..
This is Beautiful !!! Thank you!!!
gorgeous
This is one of my favorite houses
Lovely home . By the way, it’s Johns Hopkins, not John. Thanks for the many architectural gems.
I love the library.
Blimey!
❤❤❤ Good Job Ken!
All of it.
Sounds like my long Johns with the trap door. 😂
This reminds me of eldon house in london Ontario Canada. Any ghosts? Eldon house has a ghost. 😊🇨🇦
I got to see this place! I wonder if I could drive by and see this place or is it in a gated community. If so, I just have to enjoy online!
Books!!!
Library
Bathroom!!!!
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You should start each segment with the location of the house. Sometimes,it’s hard to figure out where the house is.
This looks like an old county courthouse to me.
I think they liked to read 😊
Fun fact: the only person to ever perform on that stage was Mrs Alice Garrett, the lady of the house. Pity for her listeners: apparently she had about as much talent as Florence Foster Jenkins. Her Italian voice teacher even politely suggested she pursue other endeavors.
John Hopkins 😂
Of course you meant Johns Hopkins University.
I wonder who had the world’s first golden crapper….
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JOHNS Hopkins, please.
I will never be happy in my own home again
Lol
Me either! 😢
Johns Hopkins
That’s Clickbait a trap door falls down, that’s just the door it goes up.
I detest houses built by huge egos, however since this guy loved books I'll excuse his excess.
How many rooms does a family need in their house? I think the whole house is over done. Books and books and more books? Why? Was the library open to the public, I think not. People put so much money into these mansions and very little to educate and feed the poor.
It’s their money, they can do whatever they want with it…
Way too much house for anybody!
The library room is beautiful. But this is definitely a house, not a home. VERY cold and sterile. The narrow rooms with high ceilings look very claustrophobic, to me.
my fav room is the bathroom with its golden toilet
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