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Roland Park Historic District

In the 1890s Edward H. Bouton and the Roland Park Company developed a residential neighborhood in northwest Baltimore, now known as the Roland Park Historic District. Roland Park was one of the most successful and highly emulated planned streetcar suburbs. ...

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Druid Hill Park Historic District

Druid Hill Park was in the vanguard of great urban parks in the United States. In 1860, the Baltimore Park Commission purchased the Druid Hill estate with funds gleaned from a then-unique policy of land purchases, financed by a tax ...

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Charles Village - Abell Historic District

Located directly north of Mount Vernon Place, the Charles Village-Abell Historic District is a transitional neighborhood, between the heavily urbanized neighborhoods to the south and the garden suburbs to the north. The well-landscaped front lawns are rare for Baltimore rowhouses, ...

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Fells Point Historic District

William Fell, a Quaker, settled and built his first storehouse some time before 1763, an area that later became known as Fells Point. This bustling harbor settlement was incorporated into Baltimore Town, in 1773. The Fells Point Ship Yard produced ...

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Federal Hill Historic District

Federal Hill Historic District sits on a hill overlooking downtown Baltimore and the Baltimore Harbor. In 1788, on this hill, the citizens held a celebration honoring the state's ratification of the United States Constitution. An observatory built in 1795 signaled ...

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Mount Vernon Place Historic District

Mount Vernon Place Historic District is comprised of four rectangular parks-- East and West Mount Vernon Place and North and South Washington Place. These garden parks, and the houses that line them, form the setting for the Washington Monument, the ...

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Cathedral Hill Historic District

Located at the corner of Cathedral and Mulberry Streets, the Baltimore Basilica, officially known as the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was the first Roman Catholic Cathedral built in the United States, and ...

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Loft Historic Districts

The Loft Historic Districts (North and South) are located near the University of Maryland Campus in downtown Baltimore. The Districts are architecturally significant for their massive, brick vertical manufactories that date from 1870 to 1915 and represent the finest collection ...

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Bolton Hill Historic District

The Bolton Hill Historic District is a residential neighborhood with 20 blocks of relatively unaltered buildings dating from the second half of the 19th century. Although the area was originally open farmland, northward development from the city and the construction ...

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Franklin Square Historic District

In 1839, James and Samuel Canby of Wilmington, Delaware, donated a two-and-one-half acre park to the city for $10,000. The city agreed to widen the surrounding streets and landscape this park, later named Franklin Square. It was common in the ...

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