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The Workers of Evergreen

Thursday, April 9, 2026
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Bakst Theatre, Evergreen Museum & Library
Audience:  Open to the Public  

Beginning with its construction in the 1850s as a 12-room house for Stephen and Mary Broadbent and their children, through its many expansions by two generations of Baltimore’s Garrett family, Evergreen has been shaped as much by the people who labored there as by its owners. Drawing on recent archival research, JHU Museums Director Lori Finkelstein will discuss the history of the house’s workforce in relation to larger free and enslaved domestic labor patterns in Baltimore between the 1850s and 1930s.

$5-7. Advance registration required.