The Crimea was summer estate for this one railroad builder in Baltimore.
The summer estate owned by Thomas Winans, along with its four-story mansion, Gothic chapel and winding wooded trails, is located within Leakin Park in Baltimore. The property was acquired by the city during the 1930s and 1940s at the urging of one of the nation’s foremost landscape architects. Today, it is one of the hidden gems of Baltimore.
In the summer, it was off to The Crimea and the breezes of Orianda House. Iron eagle statues at the park entrance date back to the era of Winans.Winans also built a fortification on the property, complete with canons. It is unclear exactly what purpose the fort served. Some accounts call it a “mock fort” designed to throw off Union troops during the Civil War.
Championed by Mayor Howard Wilkinson Jackson, the crowd supporting The Crmea won out, and the city purchased the estate for around $130,000, according to the Baltimore Sun archives. Park advocates like Smith bristle at the mention of its gory reputation, which came up in the podcast “Serial.” The series revisits the death of Hae Min Lee, whose body was found in Leakin Park in 1999.
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