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.
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Tour Baltimore architecture and history with Doors Open
Doors Open Baltimore is the free annual citywide festival of architecture and neighborhoods that invites thousands of people to explore the city and make meaningful connections to the built environment.
Ceremony honoring veterans Nov. 11 set for park near the armory
A Veterans Day Program will be held on Wed., Nov. 11 at 11:00 am in Congressional Medal of Honor Park on Bolton Hill’s southern edge.
BCHA begins review of historic markers in the neighborhood
In July the Bolton Hill Community Association launched an initiative to review public historic markers in the neighborhood.
Renovation is the goal for Contee-Parago Triangle Park
Plans are underway for a major renovation of Contee-Parago Park, at the southern end of the neighborhood at Bolton Street between Dolphin Street and Dolphin Lane.
There once was baseball in Bolton Hill
In a time when many surely miss the opportunity to go to Oriole Park at Camden Yards this summer and watch our Orioles engage in our national pastime, it seems like a good time for the baseball-starved fan to reflect on the rich history of baseball in Baltimore.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
No one thinks much about the century-old Marlborough Apartments, although the stately 11-story building at 1701 Eutaw Place is a fine piece of period architecture and one of the larger buildings in the neighborhood. Residents come and go, some likely oblivious to the history of the place.
How Amsterdam's Row Houses Came to Baltimore
Why do London and Baltimore have row houses while Paris and Minneapolis do not?
The Bells of Corpus Christi
Longtime residents of Bolton Hill don’t hear them anymore, for they have become part of our unconscious soundscape. But newcomers notice them and wonder where they came from.
The celebrities of John Street
By Jean Lee Cole
In 1906, Baltimore Sun reporter Emily Emerson Lantz described John Street as “a modest little scrap of a street—only six short blocks in all.” Yet what erudition,