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About Baltimore Heritage

Baltimore Heritage is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving historic buildings and revitalizing neighborhoods. We celebrate the stories of our city’s people and places through tours and education. We support home-owners and neighborhood organizations as they work to preserve and restore their homes and local landmarks.

Learn more about our mission, staff and board, check out our blog for the latest updates, or get in touch!

What We Do

Preservation

We strive to promote historic preservation with residents, neighborhoods and property owners across the city saving places dear to our communities.

Programs

We celebrate Baltimore’s rich architectural and social heritage through a range of history education and outreach programs.

A hallway with a glass display case holding postcards and a framed map hanging on the wall.
Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2017 April 20.

Resources

Baltimore City has nearly 70 neighborhoods that are designated as historic districts containing over 50,000 residential and commercial buildings. Find out what resources are available to help save and preserve Baltimore’s historic district.

Resources for history and preservation

Research Sources

Explore Baltimore Heritage 101 workshop at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2017 February 10. (CC 0)

Find Funding

Photograph by Eli Pousson.

Deed Research Guide

Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2017 April 16. Baltimore Heritage (CC 0).

Atlas Maps

Excerpt from City of Baltimore (1857) by J.H. Colton. Courtesy JScholarship, Baltimore City Sheet Maps.

Baltimore Buildings & Timelines

Vacant Buildings 101

Bmore Historic

Bmore Historic 2020 virtual unconference, September 18, 2020. Baltimore Heritage

Local Preservation School

Photograph by Carol Highsmith. Courtesy Library of Congress.

Find photos of Baltimore buildings

We share thousands of photographs of Baltimore’s buildings, neighborhoods, and parks on Flickr using a Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication. Please use our photographs — you don’t even need to ask our permission! A few of our photos use a Creative Commons Attribution license. We encourage you to use these photos with a credit for Baltimore Heritage.

Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage

Explore the history of the Civil Rights movement and share your comments on our ongoing study.

Learn more

Explore Baltimore Heritage