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

Behind the Scenes Tour of Ships Out of Water

This winter, the USS Constellation and USS Submarine Torsk were towed from the Inner Harbor and put in dry dock at the Sparrows Point Shipyard for much-needed repairs. The historic vessels are scheduled to return to the water in a few weeks, but before they do we have a chance to visit them and learn about the boats and how historic ships are repaired. Please join us and our tour guide, Mr. Christopher Rowsom, executive director of Historic Ships of Baltimore (which owns these and other historic vessels), on a tour to see the Constellation and Torsk in a way that not many do: from the underside up!

Sparrow’s Point Shipyard, 600 Shipyard Road, Edgemere, MD 21219

Saturday, March 5, 2011 | 9:30 to 11:00 AM
$10 for members; $20 for non-members
Register online today!

The tour is at the shipyard in Edgemere, about ½ hour from downtown. The Sparrows Point Shipyard is not open to the public and we will have to be escorted in through the main gate promptly at 9:30 AM.
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