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April 2019
One House at a Time: April 2019 Property Auction
Join One House at a Time for their next auction on April 16, 2019, at 11:00 am. Only qualified bidders are eligible to participate. Apply to be a bidder by Tuesday, December 4 to participate in the auction. The minimum bid for each property is $5,000. Titles are delivered free and clear of all liens and encumbrances. To access a property for inspection prior to the auction, contact A.J. Billig at 410-296-8440.
Find out more »Grant Workshop: African American Heritage Preservation Program
The African American Heritage Preservation Program provides capital grants to assist in the preservation of buildings, sites, or communities of historical and cultural importance to the African American experience in Maryland. The program is jointly sponsored by the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture and the Maryland Historical Trust.
Find out more »Another Walk Down Memory Lane in Hampden
Join photographer Denny Lynch and members of the Greater Hampden Heritage Alliance for another evening of sharing history about the Hampden-Woodberry area. Bring your own photographs, artifacts and memories. Remember and share what it was like to have lived, worked or attended school in one of America’s most intact urban mill villages.
Find out more »Auchentoroly Terrace by Foot: A Historic Neighborhood & A Changing Druid Hill Park
Originally part of George Buchanan’s Scottish named estate, Auchentorolie, today’s Auchentoroly Terrace neighborhood adjacent to Druid Hill Park is poised for change and growth. Join local resident and public artist Graham Coreil-Allan, a community leader working on neighborhood and park planning, on a walking tour to learn about the history of the community and park and the direction both are heading in the near future.
Find out more »Mount Vernon Place and the Washington Monument: Monumental City Tour
Mount Vernon began as a country estate for Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard and grew to be the place to live for Baltimore's rich and famous in the mid-nineteenth century. The Garrett family, owners of the B&O Railroad, the Walters, founders of the Walters Art Museum, and the Thomases, owners of Mercantile Bank, are among the families that built handsome mansions along the four parks that surround the Washington Monument. The recent renovations to the two-hundred-year-old Washington Monument are…
Find out more »East Baltimore Midway by Foot: The Remaking of a Historic Neighborhood
Starting as a community of a few detached houses in Baltimore County in the mid 19th century, East Baltimore Midway became a vibrant middle income neighborhood just north of Green Mount Cemetery. Today, residents and partner organizations like the Central Baltimore Partnership and Jubilee Baltimore have embarked on a new revitalization plan. Join local leaders on a walking tour to see how East Baltimore Midway is transforming into a healthy community with school improvements, new live/work spaces and more.
Find out more »Federal Hill Beyond the Views: Monumental City Tour
Baltimoreans celebrated atop Federal Hill when we ratified the U.S. Constitution. We fortified the hill to defend the city from the British in the War of 1812 and to make sure we stayed in the Union in the Civil War. We have even tunnelled under it! Join us on a tour of Federal Hill and the surrounding neighborhood to learn about this waterfront community’s rich history, including stops at one of the last wooden houses in the city, the oldest…
Find out more »May 2019
Tuscany-Canterbury by Foot: The Masterworks of Architect Clyde Nelson Friz
Known for his Beaux-Arts masterpieces the Pratt Library’s central branch and the Scottish Rite Temple on Charles and 39th Streets, architect Clyde Friz also was behind a number of the grand apartment houses in the Tuscany Canterbury neighborhood. Join us and our tour guides architect Jillian Storms and historian Charlie Duff on a walking tour to learn about, and go into, several of Friz’s wonderful Tudor and Italian Renaissance style apartment buildings, and learn about the architect and the neighborhood along the way.
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