History
Boys' Latin was founded in 1844 by Evert Marsh Topping, a former classics professor from Princeton University. The school was located in a downtown housing project (on Brevard Street) until the late 1950s, when its site was selected as part of a city-sponsored urban renewal project. The school relocated to its present 42-acre (170,000 m2) campus spanning Lake Avenue, on the border between Baltimore City and Baltimore County, in Roland Park, Baltimore.
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