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.
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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,
New "Blue Plaques" to be installed
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald and Woodrow Wilson once lived in Bolton Hill?
The residential enclave of Bolton Hill rivals Boston’s Beacon Hill and New York’s Brooklyn Heights as a neighborhood attracting some of the city’s most distinguished residents throughout its 150 years.
Christine Ladd-Franklin, a Scientist from Bolton Hill
By Jean Lee Cole
Bolton Hill has a charming tradition of placing round blue plaques on the façades of homes that were once graced by historic figures.
Neighborhood History: Thomas Courtney Jenkins and Corpus Christi Memorial Church
By Kristine Smets
Corpus Christi Church, at the corner of Mount Royal Avenue and West Lafayette Avenue, was built in memory of Thomas Courtney Jenkins,