Frederick Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

• Hood College

  Hood College, a private college in Frederick, Maryland, spreads out in front of you. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine this place in 1893, founded as the Woman’s College of Frederick by the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States.

• 
  Schifferstadt

  Picture three cast iron stoves warming this stone house — Schifferstadt, the oldest house in Frederick, Maryland. Built and completed in 1758, this stone house is celebrated as one of the nation’s finest examples of German-Georgian colonial architecture.

• National Museum of Civil War Medicine

  Step into the National Museum of Civil War Medicine here in Frederick, Maryland. The museum's focus centers on the medical, surgical and nursing practices of the American Civil War, 1861–1865.

• Visitation Academy of Frederick

  On September 11, 1846 eleven Visitation Sisters arrived to found the Visitation Academy of Frederick, the private, all-girls Roman Catholic school that once anchored this corner of the Frederick Historic District. It belonged to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore and grew from early, determined efforts to educate young women here.

• 
  Hessian Barracks

  Stone walls two stories high mark the Hessian Barracks, begun in the summer of 1777 and not completed until 1781. The State of Maryland contracted to build a barracks in the summer of 1777, though it was not completed until 1781.

All 21 stops

• Schifferstadt (Frederick)

  Picture three cast iron stoves warming this stone house — Schifferstadt, the oldest house in Frederick, Maryland.

• Weinberg Center for the Arts (Frederick)

  Picture the Weinberg Center for the Arts, a 1,143-seat theater building here in Frederick, Maryland.

• National Museum of Civil War Medicine (Frederick)

  Step into the National Museum of Civil War Medicine here in Frederick, Maryland.

• Frederick Historic District (Frederick Historic District)

  Around you spreads the Frederick Historic District, a national historic district in Frederick, Maryland that encompasses the core of the city.

• Carroll Creek (Frederick)

  Carroll Creek flows right beside you.

• Culler Lake (Baker Park)

  Look at this broad, calm basin — Culler Lake, a man-made lake in Baker Park in Frederick, Maryland.

• Hessian Barracks (Frederick)

  Stone walls two stories high mark the Hessian Barracks, begun in the summer of 1777 and not completed until 1781.

• Laboring Sons Memorial Grounds (Frederick)

  Between 5th and 6th Street on Chapel Alley, a 1.17-acre parcel holds the Laboring Sons Memorial Grounds you have reached.

• All Saints Church (Historic District of Frederick)

  All Saints Church, All Saints Episcopal Church, keeps its place at 106 West Church Street in the Historic District of Frederick.

• Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick)

  Frederick's Evangelical Lutheran Church rises in front of you.

• St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Frederick)

  St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church still marks the skyline as the Greek Revival parish that dominates downtown Frederick, right in front of you.

• Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City (Frederick)

  Federal Flemish bond brickwork rises 2+1/2 stories in front of you, under a sloping gable roof, the imposing mansion that was once the Loats Female…

• Visitation Academy of Frederick (Frederick Historic District)

  On September 11, 1846 eleven Visitation Sisters arrived to found the Visitation Academy of Frederick, the private, all-girls Roman Catholic school that once anchored this…

• Frederick Armory (Frederick)

  Crenelated blocks bookend the Frederick Armory ahead of you.

• Hanson-Thomas Houses (Frederick)

  John Hanson and Philip Thomas once lived side by side here: the Hanson-Thomas Houses.

• John C. Motter House (North End)

  Judge John C. Motter's Queen Anne home, built circa 1880 in Frederick, Maryland, rises 3½ stories in front of you.

• James K.P. Wolfe House (Frederick)

  Built by the Wolfe family in 1889, the James K.P. Wolfe House is a two-story, frame, single hall plan Victorian period farmhouse.

• Rose Hill Manor (Frederick)

  Rose Hill Manor, now Rose Hill Manor Park & Children's Museum, greets you with its two-story pedimented portico.

• Hood College (Frederick)

  Hood College, a private college in Frederick, Maryland, spreads out in front of you.

• Kol Ami of Frederick (Frederick)

  Eight families founded Congregation Kol Ami, a Reform Jewish congregation in Frederick, Maryland, on February 21, 2003, and its story begins right here.

• Beth Sholom Congregation (Frederick)

  Beth Sholom Congregation, a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, makes its home at 1011 North Market Street in Frederick.

How it works