Spring House or Dairy - c. 1812

Historical marker location:

10 Art Museum Drive, Johns Hopkins Homewood, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Art Museum Drive north of Wyman Park Drive.)

Marker installed: 2003

The Baltimore Museum of Art.

architecture houses residential buildings

Maryland was home to the first African American woman to hold a patent: In 1885, Sarah E. Goode, an African American woman from Baltimore, became the first African American woman to hold a U.S. patent. Her invention was a folding cabinet bed, which was designed to save space in small apartments.