Attributed to Charles Carson, architect Baltimore, c. 1891 Brownstone Gift of Calvin Buikema, 1999

102­4 Hopkins Place, between Pratt and Lombard Streets, Baltimore

This carved dragon, and others like it, once graced the front of the Spear Brothers boot and shoe factory, a building occupied by Fisher's Specialty House in the 1940s. Demolished in 1979, the Romanesque-style building stood where the Days Inn Inner Harbor now stands.