The David Bachrach House, also known as Gertrude Stein House, is a historic home located at Baltimore

Baltimore

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

United States

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. It is a late 19th century Victorian

Victorian architecture

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 style frame structure consisting of two stories plus a mansard roof

Mansard roof

A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret...

 in height. It was constructed about 1886 and occupied by David Bachrach

David Bachrach

David Bachrach was an American commercial photographer based in Baltimore, Maryland. He made contributions to the technical, artistic, and professional advancements in the field as well as being the founder of a photographic dynasty that became a unique institution in the United States...

 (1845-1921), a commercial photographer who figures prominently in the annals of American photographic history. Also on the property is a one-story brick building on a high foundation that was built for Ephraim Keyser

Ephraim Keyser

Ephraim Keyser was an American sculptor.-Biography:He was educated at the City College of Baltimore and studied art in the Maryland Academy of Arts in 1871-72. He went to Munich in 1872 and studied under Widmann in the Academy of Fine Arts, where he won a silver medal for a bronze statue of a page...

 (1850-1937) as a sculpture studio about 1890 and a one-story brick stable. Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...

 (1874-1946) was a niece of Mrs. David Bachrach and lived in this house for a short time in 1892.

The David Bachrach House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1985.

External links

• David Bachrach House, Baltimore City, including photo from 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust