What’s the oldest house in Bolton Hill?
What’s the oldest house in Bolton Hill? Most sources will tell you it’s the cottage at the northwest corner of Lanvale and Bolton streets, but those claims may not have been entirely accurate.
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Researching George B. Skinner: his relations, acquaintances and environs
As I walked around Bolton Hill and read all the blue historical plaques on homes identifying former residents, I was motivated to do research on who had owned the house I live in at 1526 W Mount Royal Ave. before it was converted to apartments. Interesting tile work around the fireplaces got me curious as to what inspired a resident to select that design.
Recalling Rose Hill, the lost country house on Eutaw Place
Bolton Hill’s Eutaw Place has an important anniversary this month: it was on March 19, 1853, that Baltimore’s city council passed an ordinance authorizing the mayor to accept from Henry Tiffany the deed for land now in the 1200 and 1300 blocks of Eutaw Place, to create what was then to be called “Eutaw Square.”
Bolton Hill real estate prices are rising, and experts expect a strong 2025
Bolton Hill real estate values continued to rise in 2024, with 38 properties changing hands in the neighborhood at an average price of $466,510 and a median of $445,000, according to Live Baltimore, the non-profit organization working to boost the city’s population and support healthy housing markets.
That fancy flower house in our neighborhood? 'It’s my happy place.'
Mike M. has created his paradise. It is a bespoke British glasshouse tucked away in the back corner of the side yard of his home at a spot near West Lafayette Ave. and Eutaw Place.
Five neighborhood residences selected for new blue plaques
Bolton Hill’s Blue Plaques Task Force this month announced the addition of five new markers on residences that have been in the past homes to people who made a significant difference to the quality of life in Baltimore or on a larger stage.
There’s a struggle underway to save an historic Marble Hill property
If ever there were a time and place for the city’s historic preservation office to enforce the city’s Demolition by Neglect Ordinance, the time would be now and the place would be at 1232 Druid Hill Ave., just west of Bolton Hill.
Is 2023 the year to sell, or buy, a home in in Bolton Hill?
So, what’s a Bolton Hill homeowner – or would-be homeowner – to do in 2023? Is this the right time to put your house on the market, or to jump from renting to owning your home?
Iconic Beethoven Apartments building is up for sale
A neighborhood landmark apartment building, The Beethoven, is up for sale, one of two large properties on the market in Bolton Hill.
North Avenue townhouse construction about ready to begin, finally
In September 2016 developers David Bramble and Mark Renbaum announced that they would be kicking off a major building project on the Reservoir Hill-Bolton Hill North Avenue corridor: a mix of townhouses, apartments and retail shopping that would become the gateway to West Baltimore.