Architect of Bolton Square townhouses dies
The architect who designed the award-winning Bolton Square townhouses as part of a 1960s Bolton Hill neighborhood revitalization program has died after a bout with COVID-19.
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Safety and security: things you can do to thwart porch pirates
With the pandemic, online shopping has increased significantly. This growth in package deliveries has in turn resulted in increases in package thefts or so-called ”porch pirating.”
Remembering our neighbor Dianne Ganz Scheper
Dianne called herself a “country girl” from rural Pennsylvania, and she was somewhat apprehensive about embarking on life in an urban environment when we moved into our Lanvale Street home in 1982.
Mera Kitchen, Alma Cocina Latina offer new pandemic dining
Most of the news about dining out this year has been bleak. More cheerful has been the arrival in December of Alma Cocina Latina, relocating from Canton to the old Chesapeake (and more recently Pen and Quill) restaurant site on North Charles Street.
A citizen’s guide: ‘Traffic calming’ demands patience, persistence
The February BHCA meeting included a brief overview of the traffic situation in Bolton Hill.
After a COVID delay, talks of renovating 1700 Eutaw building renew
In March 2020, the attorney and architect representing the New York-based investors who own 1700 Eutaw Place—the large and longtime vacant apartment building just to the north of Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary School—introduced plans to renovate the building.
New zoning bill can mean cutting up more single-family houses
The City Department of Planning hosted a “public information” meeting Feb. 10 about a bill (#21-0009) in the city council that affects most row houses in Bolton Hill and in other neighborhoods with large single-unit residential properties.
The life and times of John Street Park
“As a park, it’s an impertinence. Who ever heard of a park seven row houses wide, enclosed rather sketchily by low brick walls?” That is how Sara Azrael in 1958, writing for the Roland Park Company’s Gardens, Houses and People magazine, characterized the little Bolton Hill garden now known as John Street Park.
Unicorns with a Cause planning March 3 community event
Every spring for the past 10+ years, several Bolton Hillers have been participating in the annual Ride for the Feast as part of the Rebels with a Cause team.
Linden Park Apartments provide seniors independent living
The renovated, attractive building now known as Linden Park Apartments at 301 McMechen Street (between Jordan Street and Eutaw Place) is a contemporary reminder, if anyone needs one, of a time when pragmatic politicians of different parties worked together to do things that had a lasting, positive impact.