Rogers-Buchanan Cemetery is a little-known family burial ground in Druid Hill Park with burials dating back to 1750. After Preservation Maryland listed the cemetery on the 2012 list of Maryland’s Most Endangered Historic Properties, Baltimore Heritage and the Friends of Druid Hill Park have secured a conservation plan for the cemetery and continue to work with the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks to promote better stewardship moving forward.
The grand Emerson Mansion was built in 1895 by Captain Isaac Edward Emerson at 2500 Eutaw Place. Over the past twenty years, the condition of the building has deteriorated from bad to worse as broken windows have left the interior open to the weather and copper architectural elements have been stolen.
After Druid Lake was threatened by the inappropriate location of buried water tanks in 2013, the Friends of Druid Hill Park, together with area residents, Baltimore Heritage and other partners, successfully encouraged the Department of Public Works to revise the plan. Work on this plan is now underway.
In the late 19th century, the Alma Manufacturing Company in southwest Baltimore was a major employer and a a hub of technological innovation. As Baltimore's industrial economy declined in the decades after WWII, the complex, like many others, began to deteriorate. In January 2001, the historic buildings were severely damaged in a fire started by then owner Mahendra “Mike” Shah. Shah was arrested and convicted for his crime but the buildings remain abandoned today. Without a new use or a plan for redevelopment, the structure are threatened with demolition by neglect.
