University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute is a

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located along the border of the

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neighborhood of northwest

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and Woodlawn in

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. It lies on and is incorporated into the historic hospital building and grounds of the former James Lawrence Kernan Hospital. The hospital is now part of the

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, on the campus of the

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History

The James Lawrence Kernan Hospital was built between 1860 and 1867 as Radnor Park, a two-story, five-bay, Victorian mansion. In the first decades of the 20th century, alterations were carried out to the original house which made the house over into a combination of the

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and

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styles. The additional surrounding 1920s-era hospital structures were built in a style that blends well with the old historic mansion and its grounds. James Lawrence Kernan (1838–1912), was a theater manager and philanthropist of the late Victorian and early

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eras in Baltimore. He had the landmark Kernan Hotel (later renamed the Congress Hotel) on West Franklin Street. The "

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" in the basement of the hotel (later also known as the "marble bar") was the site of the first "

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" music in the town when it opened in 1903. It was listed on the

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maintained by the

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of the

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in 1979.

Notable patients

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television news reporter/correspondent

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, following her injuries from an improvised explosive device in the

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in 2006, spent time at Kernan recovering. *Several former

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football players, including quarterback

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, were recipients of

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at Kernan Hospital.

References

External links

* * at Maryland Historical Trust {{DEFAULTSORT:University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute Houses completed in 1867 Hospitals in Baltimore Baltimore County, Maryland landmarks Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore Colonial Revival architecture in Maryland Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore County, Maryland Hospitals established in 1867 Rehabilitation hospitals Baltimore City Landmarks