Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Worth seeing in and around Langston Hughes
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01The Maryland Zoo
The Maryland Zoo—also known as The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and formerly as The Baltimore City Zoo or the Baltimore Zoo—is a 135-acre park located in historic Druid Hill Park in the northwestern area of the City of Baltimore, Maryland, with the postal address of 1876 Mansion House Drive. Druid Hill was opened in 1876 as the first major park purchase by the City under Mayor Thomas Swann, and was later designed by famed nationally-known landscaper Frederick Law Olmsted.
3.5 km · zoo in the United States · Wikipedia - 02Druid Hill Park
Druid Hill Park is a 745-acre urban park in northwest Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Its boundaries are marked by Druid Park Drive, Swann Drive and Reisterstown Road, and the Jones Falls Expressway / Interstate 83.
3.8 km · public urban park in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 03Cylburn Arboretum
Cylburn Arboretum is a city park with an arboretum and gardens, located at 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. It is open daily – excluding Mondays – without charge.
2.6 km · formerly the Cylburn Wildflower Preserve and Garden Center from 1954 until 1982 · Wikipedia - 04Mount Washington Arboretum
The Mt. Washington Arboretum is a 1-acre park with various trees, shrubs, and other plants in the Mt.
3.4 km · park in Baltimore, United States of America · Wikipedia - 05Poole and Hunt Company Buildings
Poole and Hunt Company Buildings refers to a complex of buildings that once housed an ironworks— consisting of a foundry, machine shop, blacksmith shop, erecting shop, and other structures, which were located in the Woodberry section of northwest Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The buildings, made chiefly of brick and fieldstone, occupied portions of a 20-acre site.
3.3 km · building in Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 06Congregation Tiferes Yisroel
Congregation Tiferes Yisroel – Beis Dovid, also known as Rabbi Goldberger's Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 6201 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. The congregation rabbi is Rabbi Menachem Goldberger.
2 km · Orthodox synagogue in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 07Elmer V. McCollum House
The Elmer McCollum House is a historic house at 2301 Monticello Road in Baltimore, Maryland. Built about 1920, it is significant for its association with Johns Hopkins University researcher Elmer McCollum, who lived in the house from 1929 to 1939.
3.4 km · historic house in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Langston Hughes
- Airports
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 19 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 63 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 80 km
- Stations
- Milford Mill, 3.9 km · Mondawmin, 3.7 km · Reisterstown Plaza, 2.3 km · Rogers Avenue, 1 km · West Cold Spring, 1.1 km
- Washington → Langston Hughes59 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · $5–7
- Dulles → Langston Hughes78 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · $8–11
- Philadelphia → Langston Hughes146 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · $13–18
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- Get aroundOne of the most popular (and unique!) modes of transportation in Baltimore is the water taxi system +1 410 563-3901.
- Go nextNaval Academy can be done as a day trip from Baltimore via public trans Ellicott City — a wealthy Baltimore suburb with a charming old-fashioned main street Philadelphia — the birthplace of American independence and the nation's sixth largest city Washington, D.C.
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Langston Hughes is 8 km from Baltimore, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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