The Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Advisory Council brings together museum professionals, historians, educators, architects, preservationists and Mt. Vernon institutions and residents to assist the Mansion’s Board of Trustees.
Its mission is to develop ideas for opening the Mansion’s facilities, history and architectural significance to increased public view and participation and to raise its visibility as an exceptional landmark of Baltimore’s heritage.
The Council will suggest interpretive programs that will help visitors visualize and understand the people, places and events that occurred in and near the Mansion that contributed to 19th century Baltimore’s Gilded Age of economic and cultural development.
James Abbott
Jeffrey Buchheit
John Carroll Byrnes
J. Joseph Clarke, Jr.
James D. Dilts
Charles B. Duff
James Garrett
Eva Higgins
Lance Humphries
Henry Johnson
Lisa Keir
Leslie King-Hammond
Zippy Larson
Bernadette Low, PhD
Jane McConnell
Travers Nelson
Walter Schamu
Andrew Van Styn
Gary Vikan
Courtney B. Wilson
John Work Garrett was more than familiar with 11 Mount Vernon Place. He purchased it as a wedding gift for his son, Robert and new daughter-in-law, Mary Frick in 1872. 
