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Included is a brief history of Bolton
Hill, MD, which may be of interest to you.
A Brief History of Bolton Hill, Maryland
The name Bolton Hill is derived from
"Bolton-le-Moors," the English property after which the
Baltimore merchant, George Grundy, named his original estate
house. Bolton stood on the current site of the Fifth
Regiment Armory. Rose Hill and Mount Royal were other early
estates in this vicinity.
Although estate houses were built in the
area as early as the Revolutionary War era, the major
development in Bolton Hill took place between 1850 and 1900.
Two of the earliest individual brick cottages survive: 204
W. Lanvale Street, now home to the Family and Children's
Services of Central Maryland, and 232 W. Lanvale Street, a
private residence. By 1870, the neighborhood extended from
Eutaw Place to John Street and from Dolphin Street to
roughly Mosher Street. Unlike most Baltimore neighborhoods
that were built along a north-south grid, Bolton Hill’s
traditional brick row houses were built along a diagonal
orientation first laid out in 1821 by Thomas Poppleton, a
surveyor. Poppleton departed from the norm in the northwest
section of Baltimore, following instead the alignment of the
old Reisterstown Road (Pennsylvania Avenue) and the Jones
Falls.
The early stately row houses of Bolton
Hill feature plain brick facades with refined ornamentation,
primarily to define front entrances, windows, and rooflines.
The only decorations on these austere facades are bracketed
cornices, decorative door surrounds, and the occasional
ornate window lintel. These traditional red brick row houses
express simplicity and elegance. Other early housing types
include: unified row houses and duplexes. Beethoven
Terrace in the 1500 block of Park Avenue is an early example
of a unified block front of row houses faced with stucco and
designed in the Second Empire style. In addition to the rows
of houses, duplexes were built in the 1300 block of John
Street and 100 block of West Lafayette Avenue. These houses
are set back from the street with small front yards. Some
have entrances on the side, rather than on the front facade.
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