Subseries B

Samuel Ready School (SRS)

Series VI B. Barnum Property - Belmont

Box 1. Court Case & Purchase
Deed to Zenus Barnum - 25 January 1851
Deed to Zenus Barnum - 4 May 1854
Negotiations for Barnum Property - 1880
Memo on Samuel Ready's Will with Reference to Changing Site of the Asylum Building
Agreement of Purchase - Barnum Property - June 1882
Affidavit of Simon J. Martenet - 5 July 1882
Affidavit of E. Glenn Perine - 5 July 1882
Trustees - Bill of Complaint to Purchase Barnum Estate - 8 July 1882
Trustees - Brief of Complaint - 8 July 1882
Decree - 8 July 1882
Survey Map by Simon J. Martenet - 1882
Examination of Title - Belmont - September 1882
Deed - Samuel Tagart (Trustee) to Samuel Ready School - 2 September 1882
Samuel Tagart vs. S.R.S. - Opinion of Court - 4 October 1882
Statement Read Before Circuit Court - 12 October 1882
Newspaper Clippings on Tagart vs. Ready Court Case - October 1882

Box 2. The Belmont Grounds
Committee on Improvements at Belmont - 1885, 1888
Correspondence Concerning Improvements:1884-1886

Grading and Improvements of the Grounds:
1884-1886
1913

Granite Posts for Entrance - 1884
Granite Coping on Support Wall: 1884-1885
Iron Gates & Railings: 1884-1886
Support Walk - 1884
Sewer Pipe - Drainage: 1889-1892
Fire Alarm Box - 1905
Excavation on Lot at N.E. Corner Wolfe and Townsend Streets: 1885-1904
Martenet to Mullin Regarding Regrading of Holy Cross Cemetery - 18 July 1889
Laying Conduits under sidewalk Harford Avenue - 1905
Newspaper Articles

Box 3. School Buildings & Furnishings
Planning the School House: 1886-1887
Committee on Proposed Improvements - Buildings, 1891
Ready School Floor Plan
Additions to Main Building - 1891
Front Porch - 1891
Gardener's House - 1892
Bathroom - Mansion House, 1894
Eaton Library: 1894-1895
Horticutural Architecture - 1897
Lyon Hall: 1905-1909
Cost of Furniture, 1887-1888
Organ for School - 1895, 1937
Tools Inventory: 1885, 1887

Box 4. Sale of Belmont Property
Correspondence Reagarding Sale of School to Sears, Roebuck & Co.:1936-1938
Plats of Ready School Property
Sears Roebuck Ordinance
6712 Harford Road
Newspaper Clippings

Box 5. Landmarks on Belmont Property
The Columbus Monument - 1915
Perine to Snowden - Columbus Monument Scrapbook - 1920
Illumination of Columbus Monument - 1921
"The Oldest Monument" - Baltimore American - 19 November 1880
"A Column to Columbus" - 1890

Columbus Monument - Newspaper Clippings:
Not Dated
1889
1891-1893
1901
1940s
1966
1971

Old Spanish Oak