It’s membership renewal time at Baltimore Heritage! If you haven’t yet done so, please consider joining or renewing your membership today. We’ve still got a whole month left of 2023 with loads more walking tours, Five Minute Histories videos, and other programs coming up. I hope you can join us online or in person.
Your membership makes preservation possible in Baltimore. Thank you for doing so much for our city.
— Johns Hopkins, Executive Director
Last night, Baltimore Heritage had its annual Preservation Celebration! We handed out 13 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 Pitamore and drank wine from Spirits of Mt. Vernon! Thank you to everyone attended.
Award Winners
Volunteer of the Year: Pat Hawthorne
For years of dedication to Baltimore’s historic places
Afro Charities
For 60 years of preserving the Afro American Newspaper’s history
Raymond Bahr
For bringing the history of Canton to light
BGE Gas Regulator Fighters
For fighting for Baltimore’s historic neighborhoods
Siobhan Hagan and SHAN Wallace
For bringing Baltimore’s historic moving images and home movies to light
Friends of Herring Run Park
For creating the Heritage Trail at Herring Run Park
The Authors and Editors of A Place for Memory
For a new book on Laurel Cemetery
Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
For promoting the history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
E. Evans Paull
For the book Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars
The Friends of the Ship Caulkers’ Houses
For the stabilization and exterior restoration of 612-614 S. Wolfe Street
Cory Ann Adcock-Camp
For the reclamation and restoration of 1810 Barclay Street
Latrobe Building / Ulysses Hotel
For restoration of the historic Latrobe Building into the Ulysses Hotel
Lexington Market
For conserving public market heritage in the new Lexington Market
Pitch Party Winners
$1000: St. Luke’s Youth Center
$1000: Govans Presbyterian Church Racial Justice Ministry
$1000: Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
$500: Friends of Herring Run Park
$500: Baltimore Lab School
$500: Baltimore Crime Museum
Join us for our Preservation Celebration 2023 at Open Works. On October 19, we’ll honor our 2023 Preservation Award winners and, with your help, give out four micro-grants 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 we elect new board members. With food and drinks from Baltimore vendors, we hope you will join us for what promises to be a wonderful evening. Register here!
About Our 2023 Historic Preservation Awards
At our October 19 celebration, we will honor people in Baltimore who over the last year have made an impact in helping save our historic places and improve our historic neighborhoods.
Our awards recognize work of all kinds: people who have done an excellent rehab job on their house or building; people who have volunteered at a historic site; people who have stepped up to improve their historic community with a new program or partnership. Individuals are eligible, as are organizations, corporations, and government agencies or programs. Self nominations are encouraged! Please send nominations to info@baltimoreheritage.org by September 25.
About Our 2023 Microgrants
We’re in our 8th year of giving away micro-grants to help fund preservation work in the city. If you have a good idea to help preserve a historic building or place in Baltimore or help revitalize a historic neighborhood, we’d love to hear from you! The process is easy: simply fill out the online application and hit send by September 25.
We’ll pick the most promising ideas and give them a chance for one of two $1000 grants and two $500 grants. The grants will be given on October 19 at our Preservation Celebration at Open Works (1400 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202). Supporters of each idea will get three minutes to pitch them and at the end, all of us present will cast ballots to decide which ideas receive the micro grants.
The types of eligible projects are endless, and as long as they relate to Baltimore’s history, heritage, historic buildings or historic neighborhoods we will consider them. Past award winners include: restoring leaking masonry at a historic church, launching an after school arts-based safe space program in a historic neighborhood, supporting archaeological efforts at a historic furnace, and providing supplies for a community trying to provide access to a neighboring park. The sky’s the limit!
The amounts of the award ($500 and 1000) may not be enough to complete an entire project. That’s OK. The goal is to help spark new and support existing neighborhood-level preservation work. You don’t need to be a nonprofit organization or even a formalized group to be eligible. Individuals and small groups are welcome! Complete rules can be found on the application.
Do you have a good idea to help preserve Baltimore’s heritage and revitalize our historic neighborhoods? Do you know a great Bmore preservation/history project, organization, or person that needs to be recognized for their hard work?
At our 2023 Preservation Celebration on October 19, we will be giving out four micro-grants to help launch preservation work in the city. We will also be honoring people and organizations that have been doing great work for our city’s historic places and communities.
Apply for a microgrant here: https://forms.gle/kNWmmGDrYMkhZdo86
To submit an award suggestion, email us at info@baltimoreheritage.org!
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!
