Baltimore City College, one of the crown jewel?s of the city educational system, received official landmark status Monday.
At a City Hall ceremony Monday, Mayor Sheila Dixon signed a bill giving landmark status to the building that has housed the 168-year-old high school since 1928.
“The castle on the hill, as City College is known, is truly an historic landmark,” Dixon said. “It is worthy of preservation and acknowledgment.”
Famous City College alumni joined Dixon, including Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm, Maryland state Sen. Nathaniel McFadden and Baltimore City Board of School Commisoners President Brian Morris.
“A school is more than ivy-covered walls and buildings,” Hamm said. “It?s about the people as well.”
City College, founded in 1839, is the third-oldest high school in the country. The school moved to its current location on the city?s east side in 1928.
The landmark status bill was recently passed by the City Council and means that the building?s exterior cannot be altered without approval of the city Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation.
City College Alumni
» Kurt M. Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore
» Gregory Kane, Sun columnist
» Michael Olesker, Examiner columnist
» David Abercrombie, founder of Abercrombie & Fitch
» Ben Cardin, U.S. senator
» Elijah Cummings, U.S. congressman
» William Donald Schaefer, former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland
