Take a tour of the Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum and the oldest purpose-built museum in America. In this multi-stop tour, you'll hear from experts, historians, and curators who worked on and in the building during recent renovations.
Tour Stop 8
Jackson Gilman-Forlini (00:00): But also too, we know that there was also a residential presence off of Watchhouse Alley, which is the alley that runs behind the Peale. We know that there was relatively large African American community in the 19th century that lived back there. Not least of all, the Peale itself was the first public high school in Maryland open to black students. So any kind of evidence that we could find that dated to that period, I think would really help us fill in some of the stories that we're trying to tell about the building's history.
