No. 55 | Gone but Not Forgotten
Heating the Campus Buildings
McDonogh’s original boiler room was built in two phases (1937 and 1964) to heat the older buildings on campus. The adjacent smokestack, at 115 feet, was higher than the roofline…
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No. 44 | Gone but Not Forgotten
McDonogh Station: A Connection to Home
In November 1873, a group of 20 young boys left their mothers at Fulton Station in Baltimore City on a Western Maryland line train bound for McDonogh School. The station,…
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No. 48 | Gone but Not Forgotten
Boys Did the Bidding at Mealtime
Until 1987, for the sake of efficiency, there was no lunch line in the dining hall, and meals were served “family style” with students as table waiters, known as biddies….
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No. 38 | Gone but Not Forgotten
Foxleigh Estate Becomes McDonogh School
The land on which McDonogh sits, once called Prospect Hill, was renamed “Foxleigh” by Robert Oliver, who owned the estate from 1857 to 1870. He sold it to William G….
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No. 19 | Gone but Not Forgotten
Campus Stream Supplies Water for All
Prior to 1984, McDonogh’s water supply came from a set of underground springs in the north woods. It was hand-piped down to the pump house from the mill race and…
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No. 26 | Gone but Not Forgotten
Variety Show Earns Rave Reviews
In 1933, the Orange and Black Varieties, sponsored by the Patrons Club, was held at the Maryland Casualty auditorium before an audience of 1300, including the governor and mayor. The…
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No. 5 | Gone but Not Forgotten
The Spring Fair
For almost 50 years, beginning in 1929, McDonogh held a Spring Agricultural fair. An outgrowth of the school’s burgeoning animal husbandry program, the first fair featured 15 entries in the…
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