Old West Baltimore Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Roughly bounded by North Ave., Dolphin St., Franklin St. and Fulton Ave., Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland. County/parish: Baltimore.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 23, 2004. NRIS 04001374.

5987 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • B-1373
  • Druid Heights
  • Harlem Park
  • Madison Park
  • Sandtown
  • Upton

From Wikipedia:

Old West Baltimore Historic District

Old West Baltimore Historic District is a national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is primarily a row house neighborhood of approximately 175 city blocks directly northwest of downtown Baltimore. The district includes other housing from grand mansions to alley houses, as well as churches, public buildings (primarily schools), commercial buildings, and landscaped squares. Pennsylvania Avenue, the main street of the community, features a later 20th century municipal market house. Within the district are civic monuments that relate to Baltimore's premier historic African-American community. Such noteworthy figures as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Congressman Parren Mitchell, jazz artists Cab Calloway and Billie Holiday, civil rights leader Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson, and Carl Murphy, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, lived and / or worked in the area.

Old West Baltimore Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106776874

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