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Washington Hill, Baltimore
Washington Hill
is a neighborhood in
Baltimore
,
Maryland
,
United States
. It is north of
Fells Point
, south of
Johns Hopkins Hospital
, east of Old Town and
Jonestown
and west of
Butchers Hill
. It is bounded by
Fayette Street
,
Washington Street
,
Lombard Street
, and
Central Avenue
. The neighborhood surrounds
Broadway
(formerly known as Market Street in Colonial times) running north from
Fells Point
to terminate at East
North Avenue
and is named for the now-defunct Washington Medical College later known as the Church Home and Hospital on Broadway where famed writer/poet
Edgar Allan Poe
was taken to die in 1849 after being found comatose in a downtown Baltimore street. In the median strip of Broadway is a statue of seven-term mayor of Baltimore,
Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe
.
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