Neighborhoods of Baltimore

Roland Park: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Roland Park: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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Moving to the suburbs in the late 19th century was a fashionable thing to do, particularly for wealthy residents of city neighborhoods like Mount Vernon and Bolton Hill. Roland Park, a North Baltimore development created in the 1890s, was not the first of its kind in this area to inspire relocation. But in many ways, “Roland Park was the catalyst for the Baltimore suburban movement that followed it.”

That’s what Douglas P. Munro wrote in his 2015 book “Greater Roland Park,” which takes readers on a photographic journey through the neighborhood’s history. Conceived as a garden suburb that incorporated topography into its planning, Roland Park’s spacious lots and large homes earned it a reputation as Baltimore’s premier neighborhood for the affluent. That status has endured through time.

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Cherry Hill: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Cherry Hill: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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The path to one of the city’s most spectacular views is more than a little unlikely.

Head west past Arundel Elementary/Middle on Veronica Avenue and take a right on Giles Road. From there, a quick left takes you down a short, bumpy road that leads to a methadone clinic and a shuttered mail station. But drive straight, past a Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall on your left, and ahead of you is a serene outlook of the Patapsco and Baltimore’s skyline.

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Jonestown: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Jonestown: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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Ask anyone in Baltimore where the Shot Tower is and they likely can tell you, but many wouldn’t be able to name the neighborhood.

If locals can’t identify Jonestown, boosters wonder how tourists will find the neighborhood north of Little Italy that’s home to several landmarks and historic homes. Even Baltimore’s tourist maps overlook the area, colorfully highlighting such nearby destinations as the Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, Harbor East, Fells Point and Canton, while leaving Jonestown and other areas in a drab gray.

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Belvedere: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Belvedere: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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A steady stream of cars is heading northeast on Belvedere Avenue on this humid late-August day. Parking spots along the street leading up to Belvedere Square are at a premium. The sidewalks are filled with lawn-chair-carrying concert-goers – young and old, black and white – heading to the final “Summer Sounds at the Square” event of the year.

The scene here encapsulates all that is attractive about Belvedere – and all that frustrates some residents of this North Baltimore neighborhood.

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Reservoir Hill: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Reservoir Hill: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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By this time next year, Reservoir Hill could have not one, but two small neighborhood cafes — a new step for a neighborhood tagged “up-and-coming” for more than 20 years.

Last month, a family of out-of-state transplants signed a lease to open a coffee shop on Madison Avenue, hoping for an October launch. Farther east on Whitelock Street, the owners of The Bun Shop in Mount Vernon are exploring plans for a soup-and-sandwich place at Tune Up City, a former auto shop.

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Locust Point: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Locust Point: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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American flags affixed to the front of several rowhouses on Latrobe Park Terrace blow gently in the light breeze. The adjacent park on this 85-degree, mid-June afternoon is active – at the dog park, on the playground equipment, around Banner Field. We’re just a few miles from the heart of downtown, but everything about this scene in Locust Point feels suburban.

“We have a retired police officer on my street,” says Will Jovel, the Locust Point Civic Association’s design review chair, “and he said while he was on duty, they called [our neighborhood] ‘Mayberry.’”

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Druid Heights: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

Druid Heights: Exploring Baltimore’s Neighborhoods

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Traipsing across the vacant, littered lot at the Southwest corner of Druid Hill Avenue and Baker Street, Anthony Pressley looked ahead proudly to 17 newly constructed homes. In this perpetually struggling West Baltimore neighborhood, those gleaming houses were a substantial victory for Pressley and his colleagues at the Druid Heights Community Development Corporation.

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Howard Park: Exploring Baltimore’s neighborhoods

Howard Park: Exploring Baltimore’s neighborhoods

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“This is the block where it’s scary to everyone,” Preston Greene says as we walk down the 4700 block of Liberty Heights Avenue, a once-vibrant stretch of Howard Park now marked by cheap carry-outs and a handful of shuttered storefronts. “There was a hardware store there, very small. This door is that of a halfway house – right next to a liquor store. A protected class of citizens. Are you kidding me?”

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Mount Washington: Exploring Baltimore’s neighborhoods

Mount Washington: Exploring Baltimore’s neighborhoods

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The houses sit on large, well-manicured lots. The neighborhood’s public elementary/middle school is one of the best in Baltimore City. Downtown is a quick drive down the JFX or a short ride from the Light Rail station. There are parks, a neighborhood swimming pool and a driving range, not to mention quality restaurants and bars, salons and boutiques.

Is there anything Mount Washington doesn’t have?

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Help us catalog the signs of Baltimore City’s neighborhoods

Help us catalog the signs of Baltimore City’s neighborhoods

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Baltimore is a city of neighborhoods, many of which have signs announcing entry into those areas. Our staff has taken pictures of a handful of neighborhood signs in the city, but we need your help to fill in the blanks. Click through the gallery below, and if there’s a sign you know of that’s missing, take the picture and upload it using the form below.

For those without signs, a flag, banner, mural or iconic location will do.
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