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About Us
UNITE Mount Vernon is a community-led initiative dedicated to preserving the beauty, history, and spirit of Mount Vernon Place. Through volunteer efforts, local partnerships, and generous support from neighbors like you, we work to keep this historic landmark thriving for generations to come.
Our Mission
Our mission is to preserve, revitalize, and celebrate Mount Vernon’s historic character while fostering a vibrant, connected community. Through leadership in preservation, thoughtful urban planning, and cultural stewardship, we work to ensure Mount Vernon remains a place where history and progress live side by side.
Board Members
UNITE Mount Vernon is powered by neighbors, volunteers, and community leaders who share one goal: keeping Mount Vernon Place a place we’re all proud to call ours.
Jack Danna
President
Urban planner
Director of Commercial Revitalization,
Central Baltimore Partnership
President, Mount Vernon Belvedere Association
Elizabeth Bonner
Vice-chair
Real estate developer and preservationist
Board member, The Agora Companies
Emma Snyder
Secretary
Formerly Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Owner of the Ivy Bookshop and Bird in Hand Coffee and Books since 2019
Henry Hopkins
Treasurer
Philanthropist, Preservationist
President, Mount Vernon Place Conservancy ·
President, Friends of Clifton Mansion
Former Chief Legal Counsel, T. Rowe Price
Executive Board
Ellen Janes
Former Executive Director
Central Baltimore Partnership
Martin Knott Jr.
Principal
The Rex Foundation
Chief Development Officer
Patrick Mooney
Preservation Maryland
Petula Nash
Executive Director
Mount Vernon Place Conservancy
Anne Powell
Principal
Plan Build LLC; commissioner, Commission for Historic and Architectural Preservation; Chairperson, Preservation Maryland
James P. Suttner
Principal
Suttner Architecture, LLC
Dominic Walker
Vice President and Director of Development
Washington Place Equites (Time Group)
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