Neighbors
When you move into a stately 8,000+ square foot house that has suffered its share of injuries and indignities over 134 years, the key question is: where do we begin?
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Revisiting Maryland’s history of slavery from two contrasting perspectives
We often hear stories of injustice and think, “Why don’t they do something about it?” The next question, of course, is, “Who is THEY?” Congress? The President? Injustice is rarely remedied from the top down. It takes small groups of people, growing by one or two at a time. Change begins to happen when understanding injustice moves from the abstract to the personal.
The parks of Bolton Hill: Rutter’s Mill Park
Bolton Hill was open land in the late 1700s, drained by streams that fed into the Jones Falls. One, Spicer’s Run, ran down from Reservoir Hill, emptying into the Falls just south of where the North Avenue bridge stands today.
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.
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.
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.
Committee formed to review Bolton Hill’s historic public markers
BGE will begin major gas line work in Bolton Hill in the first quarter of next year, part of what BGE dubs “Operation Pipeline”.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s time in Bolton Hill
Although he spent most of his early years in St. Paul, MN, the famous Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald has strong biographical connections to Maryland, and more specifically, strong personal connections to our Bolton Hill neighborhood.
Remembering Walter Sondheim alongside Rep. Cummings and Justice Marshall
Walter Sondheim, who died in 2007 at the age of 98, was a Bolton Hill native (1612 Bolton Street) and a Baltimore civic leader extraordinaire.