Old West Baltimore Historic District (Additional Documentation)
National Register of Historic Places

Old West Baltimore Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore County, Maryland
Listed
December 23, 2004
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
04001374

About this property

Old West Baltimore Historic District is a national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is primarily a row house neighborhood of approximately 175 city blocks directly northwest of downtown Baltimore. The district includes other housing from grand mansions to alley houses, as well as churches, public buildings (primarily schools), commercial buildings, and landscaped squares. Pennsylvania Avenue, the main street of the community, features a later 20th century municipal market house. Within the district are civic monuments that relate to Baltimore's premier historic African-American community. Such noteworthy figures as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Congressman Parren Mitchell, jazz artists Cab Calloway and Billie Holiday, civil rights leader Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson, and Carl Murphy, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, lived and / or worked in the area. Old West Baltimore Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Located in the district is the separately listed Congressman Parren J. Mitchell House.

Location

Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore County, Maryland
39.30441, -76.63576

Categories

ARCHITECTURECOMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTETHNIC HERITAGE-BLACKSOCIAL HISTORY
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Nearby Historic Sites

Public School No. 111
Industrial
0.3 mi
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue
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0.3 mi
Douglass, Frederick, High School
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0.4 mi
Home of the Friendless
Industrial
0.4 mi
Sellers Mansion
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0.4 mi

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When was Old West Baltimore Historic District (Additional Documentation) listed on the National Register?

Old West Baltimore Historic District (Additional Documentation) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 23, 2004.

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Old West Baltimore Historic District (Additional Documentation) is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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