Woodrow Wilson Home - Baltimore

Woodrow Wilson's home is on Eutaw Place in the Bolton Hill section of Baltimore, Maryland.  The future president lived in this three story, red brick townhouse while attending Johns Hopkins University.  Wilson's college career began in 1873 at Davidson College in North Carolina, which he attended for one year, before transferring to The College of New Jersey, which would later be known as Princeton.  After his graduation in 1879 he attended the University of Virginia School of Law, but soon after moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he lived with his parents and studied law on his own.  In 1882 he opened a law practice in Atlanta, but soon grew dissatisfied with the business end of the proceedings and gave up his practice in favor of further study.  Which brought hin to Baltimore, and the hopes of earning a degree and becoming a professor.  He entered Johns Hopkins in 1883 and studied government and history.  Along the way he wrote Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics, which he used as his dissertation, and which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1885.  Wilson eventually earned his Ph.D. from Hopkins in 1886, the only president to have done so.  He left Baltimore at the same time to teach at Bryn Mawr College. 

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