Mary Ellen Hayward
Born
Mary Ellen Hayward

(1961-05-30)May 30, 1961
DiedAugust 11, 2020(2020-08-11) (aged 59)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationHistorian
Known forHistory and architecture of the Baltimore rowhouse

Mary Ellen Hayward (May 30, 1961 – August 11, 2020) was an American scholar of architecture, in particular the rowhome form as present in Baltimore City, Maryland.[1]

Early Life and Education

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Hayward was born in Lutherville, Maryland, the daughter of a wholesale liquor salesman.[2] attended Roland Park Country School

married Maryland Historical Magazine editor Robert J. Brugger in 1987[3]

Career

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In 1981, Hayward worked as an exhibit curator at Baltimore's Peale Museum, where she developed the exhibit "The Rowhouse - A Baltimore Style of Living."[4] She presented a paper on the same topic that October at the annual Maryland Historical Trust conference.[5]

That same year, Hayward worked on a University of Baltimore team on a two-year survey of Baltimore private organizational records, published as The Records of Baltimore's Private Organizations.[6]

By, Hayward was a staff curator of maritime collections with the Maryland Historical Society.[7]

As part of this role, she delivered public lectures on topics such as "Baltimore in the Privateer Era," "the merchants of Westminster," and "Holiday Feasts - Cookbooks from the Collection."[8][9][10] In 1984, Hayward curated an exhibit on "Maryland's Maritime Heritage" at the Radcliffe Maritime Museum.[11]

In 1986, Hayward curated "From Torchlight to Television: 200 Years of Maryland Political Campaigns," a Maryland Historical Society exhibit displaying hundreds of election items from 1789 to the then-present primary.[12] The same year, she collaborated with historian George H. Callcott to produce a book on the same theme, Maryland Political Behavior: Four Centuries of Political Culture.[13]

Hayward's role with the Maryland Historical Society expanded to grants coordination and, by 1992, a position as special assistant to the director of the society.[14][15]

In 1994, Hayward and Robert I. Cottom Jr. produced Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided, a book adapted from their previous Maryland Historical Society exhibit.[16]

As early as the 1980s, Hayward's work on rowhomes had been used as a reference for historic preservation selections in neighborhoods like Fells Point.[17]

preservationist charged with documenting 3-6000 alley houses - Lemmon St homes[18]

By the late 90s, Hayward was the director of the Maryland Historical Trust's Alley House Project, conducting historic site surveys.[19]

In 1997, Hayward and Charles Belfoure began work on a book to be titled The Rowhouse: Baltimore's Basic Building Block, with grant awards from the James Marston Fitch Chartiable Trust and the Baltimore Architectural Foundation.[20] The resulting book, published in 1999 as simply The Baltimore Rowhouse, won the authors a Preservation Honor Award from Baltimore Heritage the following year.[21]

In 2004, Hayward published The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, the culmination of 10 years of research in conjunction with Baltimore historian Frank Shivers.[22] The book won the top prize for nonfiction at the Baltimore Book Festival that same year.[23]

Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1970s won another Preservation Honor Award from Baltimore Heritage.[24]

References

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  1. ^ Rasmussen, Frederick N. (2020-08-11). "Mary Ellen Hayward, historian, preservationist, curator and author whose expertise was Baltimore rowhouses and alley houses, dies". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  2. ^ "John Albert Hayward, 86, wholesale liquor salesman". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 2001-11-28. p. 86. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  3. ^ "An Eastern Shore writers' anthology". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1987-11-29. p. 239. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  4. ^ Jackson, Jacquelyn R. (1981-04-12). "Exhibit views city rowhouses". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 314. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  5. ^ "Historic group's conference will focus on architecture". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1981-10-04. p. 117. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  6. ^ Bready, James H. (1981-07-30). "Balto. records: who saved what". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  7. ^ Hetrick, Ross (1984-10-08). "Maritime exhibit sets sail". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 32. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  8. ^ "Calendar ..." The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1989-06-08. p. 42. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  9. ^ "Westminster". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1984-03-29. p. 75. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  10. ^ "Talks". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1986-01-19. p. 90. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  11. ^ Judd, Frederick A (1984-10-05). "The Chesapeake's nautical heritage recaptured at the Historical Society". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  12. ^ "Historic group's conference will focus on architecture". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1981-10-04. p. 117. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  13. ^ Bready, James H. (1986-12-28). "Books about Maryland or by Marylanders: 1986 has produced a bumper crop". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 139. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  14. ^ "Art, but not Merchants Club, is sold". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1990-04-12. p. 29. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  15. ^ Warren, Tim (1992-04-22). "Historian is fascinated by Civil War era". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 70. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  16. ^ Bready, James H. (1994-03-27). "Some play ball while others turn pages". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 70. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  17. ^ Smith, Linell (1986-08-15). "What's So Important About Preserving Fells Point?". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  18. ^ McCraven, Marilyn (1997-06-11). "Activists seek to save 19th-century houses". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 78. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  19. ^ Gunts, Edward (1999-07-04). "'The Baltimore Rowhouse' - here to stay". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 61. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  20. ^ "Authors of rowhouse book receive two grants". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1997-09-18. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  21. ^ Gunts, Edward (2000-06-22). "Restoring lost luster to a gem". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 76. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  22. ^ Rienzi, Greg (2004-06-07). "Now That's Architecture, Hon". Johns Hopkins Gazette. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  23. ^ "Fesperman wins award". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 2004-09-02. pp. E3. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  24. ^ Gunts, Edward (2009-06-19). "Preserving the past". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. pp. A22. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
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