Save the date! On Thursday, October 19, Baltimore Heritage will be hosting its Preservation Celebration 2023 in the evening (location tbd). At this event, we’ll honor our 2023 Preservation Award winners and, with your help, give out four microgrants to people working on the front lines in our historic neighborhoods. We’ll say thank you to our volunteers and honor all of their hard work this year. This gathering also acts as Baltimore Heritage’s annual meeting where the board will elect its new members. Tickets will be a suggested donation of $25.
Check back in the coming weeks for more information. We hope you’ll join us on October 19!
Last week, Baltimore Heritage had its annual Preservation Celebration and we are delighted we could once again gather in person! We handed out 14 awards to groups and individuals doing fabulous work celebrating and preserving our city’s history and buildings. We gave out 6 micro-grants to 6 very worthy community projects. We conducted our organization’s annual meeting and welcomed a few new board members. And we said a big thank you to our wonderful volunteers. They make historic preservation possible in Baltimore. All the while, we ate delicious food from Trinacria and drank wine from Spirits of Mt. Vernon! Thank you to everyone attended.
Award Winners:
Sonia Eaddy and Nicole King For tireless advocacy in historic Poppleton
CASA For the restoration of the 1921 Belnord Theater
Award winners Nicole King (left) and Sonia Eaddy (right) at the celebration!
Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum For developing a Baltimore Civil Rights history school curriculum
Baltimore City Department of General Services and
Carroll Museums, Inc. For the restoration of the interior of the Phoenix Shot Tower
The Peale For the restoration of The Peale
Friends of Patterson Park and
Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks For restoration of the historic superintendent’s house in Patterson Park
Nia Redmond For creating the East Baltimore Historical Library
Meadow Development Group For restoration of The Eleanor at 3400 Auchentoroly Terrace
Jubilee Baltimore For rehabilitation of the Odell’s Building at 19-21 East North Avenue
Bree Jones For advancing equitable renewal in historic West Baltimore
Volunteer of the Year – Richard Messick For enhancing Baltimore’s historic places through years of research, publishing, and tour guiding
Pitch Party Winners
$1000: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church For exterior lighting
Diana Bailey, Executive Director of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, receiving her microgrant check from Baltimore Heritage Executive Director Johns Hopkins
$750: Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project For new cemetery signage
$750: Greater Baltimore Urban League For a new history exhibit
$500: Maryland Women’s Heritage Center For a new electronic exhibit
$500: Carroll Museums, Inc. For a new Shot Tower sign
Join us for our Preservation Celebration 2022 at the newly restored and re-opened Peale Museum! On October 13, we’ll honor our 2022 Preservation Award winners and, with your help, give out four microgrants to people working on the front lines in our historic neighborhoods. We’ll say thank you to our volunteers and honor all of their hard work this year. This gathering also acts as Baltimore Heritage’s annual meeting where the board will elect its new members. With food from Baltimore vendors, wine and beer from Maryland suppliers, and complimentary valet service, we hope you will join us for what promises to be a wonderful evening. And we couldn’t be in a better historic place than the newly renovated Peale Museum. We hope you’ll join us on October 13!
Register here! Tickets are a suggested donation of $25.
In October 2020, Baltimore Heritage awarded Friends of Contee-Parago Park a $500 micro-grant to help them preserve the original dedication plaque installed in the park in 1971. Here’s an update from Jean Lee Cole of the Friends of Contee-Parago Park:
The sign was installed this morning by a wonderful team from the Serra Stone company, who also did the demolition of the wall and building of the new brick piers. It took a long time to locate this company and secure funding for the work. But it’s been completed! And the mini-grant from Baltimore Heritage helped keep the preservation of the original sign an important priority throughout the process. Members of both the Contee and Parago families have expressed their joy in seeing the plaque featured more prominently in the park, and Reese Culbreath, grandson of Edward Parago, selected the heart-shaped boulder onto which the plaque was installed and determined its placement. It was quite moving to be part of this restoration of history.
William Contee and Edward Parago
Come enjoy the park and help out at this upcoming event:
Thank you to the Friends of Contee-Parago Park for their important preservation work! For more information on Contee-Parago Park, check out our Five Minute Histories video:
Thank you to everyone who came to our virtual micro-grant party last night and helped select grants for six Baltimore projects! It was a fun and participatory event. Here are the six projects that received funding:
$500 Micro-Grants:
Thomas Johnson Elementary Middle School field trip to the Baltimore Museum of Industry
Community murals in Irvington by Cooperative Community Development, Inc.
$250 Micro-Grants:
Website costs for the Friends of St. Vincent Cemetery
Shutter restoration at the Irish Railroad Workers Museum Visitors Center
$50 Micro-Grants:
Brochures for the Baltimore Immigration Memorial and Museum
Research equipment and other costs for the Baltimore Crime Museum
We will keep you posted as these projects move along and, again, thank you!!
