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Frick’s Folly: a shortened history of The Beethoven Apartments

Bolton Hill resident and amateur historian Kevin Cross started pulling at a string of newspaper searches, old books and other historical archives earlier this year, poking around for neighborhood history. As with sweaters, the unraveling string became longer. The result in 2025 will be a new, open section of the BHCA website devoted to stories conveying the history of Bolton Hill, its early residents and builders, parks and architecture and more.

On its 50th anniversary, a history of how Bolton Hill’s swim club was born

The Bolton Swim and Tennis Club is turning 50 in 2024. This is part of the history of the club, how it was founded, how it struggled, and how it grew to its current size. It is based on interviews with club members, former and current, on newspaper stories and on club records.

A short history of Eutaw Place and two women who helped preserve its charm

Look up and down the stretch of Eutaw Place that forms Bolton Hill’s southeastern boundary today and you’ll still see gorgeous old brick and brownstone mansions – mostly well-kept and owner-occupied. Many of the city’s most prominent and wealthy professional and mercantile families once resided in the houses along the 1300 to 1800 blocks, from not long after the Civil War until the early 20th Century, when they moved out to Roland Park and beyond

How did the Linden Avenue gazebo wind up there?

There are only a handful of gazebos scattered about Greater Baltimore. One of the older ones is on Linden Avenue, just south of Sumpter Park. But how did it come to be located smack dab in the middle of the brick roadway, blocked off to through traffic? Your intrepid reporter found the answer in Fells Point.

Coming soon: a new look at Bolton Hill baseball great Ned Hanlon

Long before the famous Ripkins, Eddie Murray or Frank Robinson, the toast of professional baseball in Baltimore was a man called Foxy Ned Hanlon who lived in Bolton Hill. Now Tom Delise, a longtime English teacher who lives in the neighborhood, has written a biography, Foxy Ned Hanlon: The Baseball Life of a Hall of Fame Manager, co-authored with Jay Seaborg, a retired history teacher and lifelong baseball fan in Mt. Airy.

The Bolton Hill Bulletin

Frick’s Folly: a shortened history of The Beethoven Apartments

On its 50th anniversary, a history of how Bolton Hill’s swim club was born

A short history of Eutaw Place and two women who helped preserve its charm

How did the Linden Avenue gazebo wind up there?

Coming soon: a new look at Bolton Hill baseball great Ned Hanlon

Park Avenue medians were designated as Park Place in 19th century

Baltimore Unity Hall opens June 17; Petula Caesar named its first director

Festival on the Hill 2022 is taking shape

Changes coming soon to Contee-Parago Park; resources still needed

Brown Memorial celebrating 150 years in the neighborhood