well as his parents in Baltimore's historic Green Mount Cemetery. Many of his B&O papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution; other family papers are held by the Library of Congress. With succeeding generations, the Garrett family business expanded in railroads, shipping, and banking. Nine years after the Great Baltimore Fire of February 1904, the firm marked the city's (and financial district's) revival by building a landmark skyscraper of thirteen stories (tall for those days) designed by noted architects J.B. Noel Wyatt and William G. Nolting in a variety of then popular styles including the Chicago, Commercial/Vernacular and Renaissance Revival styles at the southwest corner of Water and South Streets. The firm, led by his descendants, endured into 1974, when it merged with its former rival, Alex. Brown & Sons. In 1981, a law firm which had long leased space in the building merged with another firm, Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger and Hollander, purchased The Garrett Building, and began and completed a substantial historically-minded restoration and renovation, which included placing the building on the National Register of Historic Places. Places named in Garrett's honor include: Garrett, Indiana Garrett County, Maryland, the last of the state's 23 counties to be established, in 1872 Garrett Island in the (Susquehanna River) Garrett Park, (Montgomery County) Garrett, Pennsylvania. The Garrett Park recreation area in Baltimore City's Brooklyn neighborhood, on East Patapsco Avenue, between Second and Third Streets, was donated and named for John Work Garrett's grandson Robert Garrett, a member of the 1896 Olympics American team in Athens, Greece and a long-time recreation and parks leader in Baltimore City. See also List of railroad executives References Further reading Sander, Kathleen Waters. John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). xii, 403 pp. External links 1820 births 1884 deaths 19th-century American railroad executives People of Maryland in the American Civil War Johns Hopkins University people Baltimore and Ohio Railroad people Burials at Green Mount Cemetery