Many Loyola University Maryland students probably pass by this building near the Loyola Notre Dame Library without knowing its history or even its current use. This small gingerbread cottage, known as the Maroger Art Studio, is named for its former resident, Jacques Maroger, a French artist who moved to Baltimore in 1940 after he met Baltimore’s Alice Warner Garrett. Mrs. Garrett was the art-loving mistress of the nearby Evergreen House, and the Loyola property was once part of the Evergreen estate. She had become a patron and student of Maroger, and the cottage was built as her personal Parisian-style art studio where Maroger taught her when he was not teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Maroger did not actually live in studio after Mrs. Garrett died in the 1950s. Maroger died in 1962, and the cottage is now used for Loyola’s painting and drawing classes.
