2011 Preservation Awards Call for Nominations!

Baltimore Heritage is seeking your nominations for Baltimore’s best historic preservation projects and leaders, from exceptional restorations to new neighborhood tour programs. We’re excited to continue last year’s new award categories offering special recognition to smaller DIY projects with our Sweat Equity Award and celebrating small organizations and communities that are working to preserve and promote historic neighborhood places through the Historic Baltimore Neighborhoods award. For inspiration, check out our series on 2010 Preservation Award Winners, including great adaptive reuse and restoration projects like the Hotel Brexton, the Elisha Tyson House, Miller’s Court, and, of course, the American Brewery.

We have designed our online nomination form to be fast and easy with two main parts:

  • A short narrative (250-1000 words) about the project or achievement and a list of participants
  • Photographs of the project or related to the achievement submitted by e-mail or on CD.

Continue on to learn more about our six categories ranging from large commercial redevelopments to DIY rowhouse rehabs then submit your nomination online today. Self nominations are encouraged. The deadline for accepting nominations is April 2, 2011. Read more

Historic Baltimore by Bus Redux: Celebrating 50 Years of Saving Historic Places

Last October, we hosted a bus tour of central Baltimore to commemorate Baltimore Heritage’s 50th anniversary. In response to your kind comments and continued interest in this trip, we are repeating the bus tour and hope you can join us if you didn’t make it the first time around. So…

Step back into 1960 Baltimore: Charles Center was just underway (with Mies van der Rohe’s One Charles Center two years from completion); Baltimore’s population had dropped by 10,000 people, down to 940,000; city planners had begun crafting highway plans to run through Fell’s Point, Mount Vernon, and West Baltimore; and Baltimore Heritage was founded to preserve historic places in Baltimore City. We are recreating a bus tour of historic sites in central Baltimore that launched our organization and the historic preservation movement in Baltimore City. Please join us on this two-hour bus trip with our tour guides, local historians Wayne Schaumburg and Marsha Wise, as we connect the dots of historic preservation and city development between the Baltimore of 1960 and the Baltimore of today.

Tour Information

Sunday, March 27, 2011 | 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM or 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
$25 | Register today!

Meet at the Peale Museum (225 North Holliday Street, Baltimore 21202). Free street parking is available. The tour is by bus (school bus, to be exact) and will last two hours. We will get off the bus a few times to examine historic places up close and stretch our legs.
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Historic Rehab Tax Credit Workshop on Pennsylvania Avenue

Do you own an old rowhouse? If you are located in a historic district, you might be one of thousands of Baltimore home-owners eligible for the Maryland Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit program which can provide a substantial tax incentive for maintenance or rehab work on your historic home. If you can spend a minimum of $5,000 in a two-year period, approved applicants receive a 20% refundable income tax credit on the cost of your maintenance or home-improvement project. Learn more about historic tax credits with our detailed guide to city, state and federal programs.

Historic Rehab Tax Credit Workshop

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | 7 to 8 PM
St. Peter Claver Church | 1546 North Fremont Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217

Join Baltimore Heritage and the Druid Heights CDC on March 16 from 7:00 to 8:00 PM at St. Peter Claver Church for an introductory workshop to the state and city historic rehab tax credit. Chloe Williams from the Druid Heights CDC will share a case study on their work with the tax credit program for the rehab of the historic Gateway Homes along McCulloh Street in the Druid Heights neighborhood.

Questions? Call Eli Pousson at 301-204-3337 or e-mail pousson@baltimoreheritage.org