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1,2,3,4,5  - Looking around downtown from the harbor.

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6,7,8  - The Baltimore Sun, and its neighboring buildings across the street.
 

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9,10,11,12,13,14  - The first ESPN Zone, of a chain that will span 8 locations with an opening in Denver next fall, opened in this renovated industrial plant on the harbor. The Zone shares a roof with Barnes&Noble and Hard Rock Cafe.

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15, 16  - A classy modern stadium, Camden Yards, home of the Orioles, and a comparatively tacky modern stadium, football's Ravens' PSI Net Stadium.

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17,18,19,20 - A natural fit in the harbor is the National Aquarium, with its dolphins (18), vivid smaller fish (19), and simulated rainforest (20).
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21, 22  - At BMI Airport.

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23,24,25 - Housing in downtown Baltimore consists almost entirely of rowhouses, each 10-20 wide, two long rooms deep, and three floors high. With the rise of harbor-related industries, workers need close, cheap housing, and rowhouses sprung up to line the streets.

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26, 27  - Andrea's relatives, with whom we stayed in such a rowhouse, own this wall-length mirror, which, the framed note (26) tells us, was in Baltimorian Francis Scott Key's room when he died.

photos by Nathan Bierma

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