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BHCA elects new board; neighborhood projects get state funds
May 2026
Three new neighborhood residents were elected to the 22-member BHCA Board of Directors at the association’s annual meeting on May 7: Roosevelt V. Boone, Rochelle Carpenter and Maurice Corbett. They were part of a slate of officers and incumbent board members chosen to lead BHCA this year and next.
Here’s a progress report on the Streets Market hoping to open next year
May 2026
A Streets Market in southeast D.C.
It was late April, a year ago. Neighbors attending the groundbreaking ceremony, for a coming Streets Market on the Bolton Hill – Reservoir Hill border, were treated to a comic performance of our mayor steering a demolition vehicle brought to the site solely for photo-op purposes. Later the equipment was hauled away and the site sat as before, an ugly remnant of an abandoned brick structure.
Elections are just a month away. Do you know who the candidates are?
May 2026
Statewide primary elections are just a month away, and while it’s hard not to notice that Gov. Wes Moore and other statewide candidates are out and about, it can be difficult to find out who is on the ballot at the local and neighborhood level. Early voting runs from June 11-18 and election day is June 23.
Remembering Susan Van Buren and Debby Phinney...
May 2026
Bolton Hill lost two grande dames in April. Over many years they separately brought to the neighborhood originality, community spirit and energy that helped make Bolton Hill the unique place that it is. Read about Susan Van Buren and Debby Phinney:
Meet Gabrielle Finck: “Brahms is my Guy”
May 2026
Gabrielle Finck is the associate principal horn for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She, her husband Noah Tyler, and their five children, aged 12, 10, 8, 5 and nearly 2, live on Laurens Street. Drawn to purchase their home by the green spaces and parks, and the proximity to her work, Finck says, “We love the neighborhood parks. Our family attends nearly every Arts in the Park concert. You can always see us there!”
Jeanne O’Donnell: from D.C.’s Color School to Bolton Hill
May 2026
The walls of Jeanne O’Donnell’s lovely home on Park Avenue display her artwork: paintings that are complex, lyrical and full of life. Some reflect the places that she has lived, some take on abstracted motifs of foliage and flowers and, most recently, intertwined figures and faces.
On the trail of old Bolton Hill photos, with Kevin Cross
May 2026
While visiting a former John Street neighbor, Barbara White, recently at Edenwald in Towson, neighborhood historian Kevin Cross saw her 1893 copy of Artwork of Baltimore, a volume of 19th century photos published by The W.H. Parish Publishing Co., of Chicago.
Bolton Hill Notes
May 2026
📅 Neighborhood calendar catch-up 📅
📉 ‘Problem properties’ list shrinks with BHCA committee’s nudging 📉
🎨 50+ Bolton Hill artists: a community exhibition at MICA’s Meyerhoff Gallery 🎨
