The bust of Johns Hopkins is visible in front of the university's new arts center from North Charles Street. Johns Hopkins was a Quaker merchant and philanthropist who gave $7 million for the creation of a research university and hospital in 1873.
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The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) website uses icons that celebrate some of the diverse aspects of IPS, its home at Johns Hopkins University, and IPS’ connections to the City of Baltimore.

IPS is located in the Wyman Park Building, long involved in service to the nation's seamen, a tradition dating back to President John Adams. For Baltimore, with its history as one of America's great port cities, the health issues associated with international shipping were always key. The Wyman Park Building was built as a United States Public Health Service Hospital in 1934.

Many of the details featured on the website's banners decorate this fine 1930's building. The eagle on the home page perches on several cornices of the building; the lanterns frame the entrance; and the waves circle the base of the flagpole. The scroll is a supporting detail on the facade.

A detail of a painting in the lobby appears on "Training and Technical Assistance." The painting belongs to a set of three, completed by artist Wendell Galloway in 1937 for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA created jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens during the Depression through construction, the arts, and other projects.

The other symbols used on the website represent landmarks on the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. The cupola on the "Publications" banner is located on the top of Gilman Hall, the epitome of the Georgian style that is rooted in the classics, and distinguishes the Homewood campus. The column used on the "MPP" home page comes from Levering Hall, site of many IPS functions, including the presentation of the annual Baltimore policy analysis project by graduate students in IPS' graduate program in policy studies.

The bust of Johns Hopkins on "About Us" is perched in front of the university's new arts center on North Charles Street. Hopkins was a Quaker merchant and philanthropist who gave $7 million for the creation of a research-oriented university and hospital in 1873. At the time, it was the largest gift of philanthropy in the United States.