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Patterson Park/Highlandtown Historic District

Inventory No.: B-1337

Date Listed: 12/27/2002

Location: Roughly bounded by N. Patterson Park & Eastern Ave, E. Fayette & Grundy St, Pulaski Hwy, Baltimore, Baltimore City

Category: District

Period/Date of Construction: 1867-1952

Architect/Builder: Wyatt & Nolting, John Zink, and E. Francis Baldwin

Resources: 177 (142 contributing, 34 non-contributing)

Description: The Patterson Park/Highlandtown Historic District is an approximately 120 block area in east Baltimore City. The district is generally bounded on the north by Pulaski Highway (U.S. Route 40), on the east by an industrial corridor, on the south by the Canton Historic District and Patterson Park, and on the west by the Butchers Hill Historic District. Predominantly comprised of unbroken streetscapes of modest rowhouses lining gridded streets, the Patterson Park/Highlandtown Historic District is characteristic of Baltimore's working class neighborhoods. In a manner characteristic of communities knit together by foot and streetcar transportation, churches, schools, corner stores, and scattered small-scale industrial buildings are interspersed among the rowhouses. A neighborhood commercial district is centered along Eastern Avenue, South Highland Avenue, and South Conkling Street, a branch library, a movie theater, and a Jewish cemetery complete the physical fabric of the historic district. While local architects like Wyatt & Nolting, John Zink, and E. Francis Baldwin are represented within the district, for the most part the district is characterized by commonplace buildings. Typically for rowhouse construction, stylistic details serve merely as applied decoration to vernacular rowhouse variations. The district retains elements such as painted screens, window displays, planters, and decorative seating areas characteristic of Baltimore's rowhouse-based residential folkways. While buildings have been altered, these changes have not affected the all-important massing, form, and rhythm of the streetscapes. Changes to commercial buildings are typical of the property type; alterations to dwellings, particularly the application of Formstone, embody the ideals of home ownership so important to Baltimore's rowhouse neighborhoods.

Significance: The Patterson Park/Highlandtown Historic District is a remarkably large and cohesive rowhouse neighborhood in east Baltimore. It survives as a material representation of Baltimore's settlement patterns created by waves of European immigration. These newcomers, who established ethnically heterogeneous neighborhoods within this district, provided the labor essential for the growth of the city's industrial base. First settled in 1867, the Patterson Park/Highlandtown Historic District illustrates the role city annexation, industrial development, and home ownership played in shaping land use patterns in the city .Block after block of unbroken rows of modest brick rowhouses stand to represent their association with Baltimore's working class immigrant population. Churches, schools, corner stores, a neighborhood commercial district, movie theater, and library complete the fabric of a community knit together by streetcars and pedestrian traffic. The Patterson Park/Highlandtown Historic District is significant for its association with Baltimore's working class identity and the important role home ownership played in the city's housing patterns. The Patterson Park/Highlandtown Historic District is also significant as a surviving example of the unbroken streetscapes of modest rowhouses that once characterized middle class housing in Baltimore. An exceptionally cohesive district, Patterson Park/Highlandtown has lost less than 1% of its architectural fabric constructed before 1952. While many of the rowhouses have been altered over time, these alterations are inextricably linked to the persistence of home ownership that characterizes this neighborhood and the democratic ideals of urban rowhouse living. Changes such as the application of Formstone and the installation of first-floor picture windows testify to the owners' continuing commitment to their neighborhood.

District Resources (177) (142 contributing, 34 non-contributing)

From associated listing in National Register nomination form. C = Contributing, NC = non-contributing, blank = not evaluated.

Address	Status	Resource Name and MIHP (if any)
100-104 (even) 5 1/2 Street	C
3035 E. Baltimore Street	C	Bethel Evangelical Reformed Church (Iglesia la Resurrection)
3127 E. Baltimore Street	C	Emanuel English Evangelical Lutheran Church
3215 E. Baltimore Street	C
3600 E. Baltimore Street	C	Hebrew Friendship Cemetery
2300-3600 (even) Baltimore Street	C
2901-3529 (odd) Baltimore Street	C
2638 E. Baltimore Street and 35 N. Lakewood Avenue	C	B-4500 -- St. Elizabeth of Hungary
3426 Bank Street	C	Abbott Memorial Presbyterian Church
3701 Bank Street	C	B-1107 -- Schluderberg Packinghouse
3726 E. Bank Street	C	The Lord Baltimore Truck Company (Ye Ol' Antique Barn)
3422-3642 (even) Bank Street	C
3401-3925 (odd) Bank Street	C
320 Baylis Street	C
301-317 (odd) Baylis Street	C
100-138 (even) N. Belnord Avenue	C
1-139 (odd) N. Belnord Street	C
3709-3901 (odd) Benefit Street	C
10-14 S. Bouldin Street	C	St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Church
10-426 (even) S. Bouldin Street	C
101-419 (odd) S. Bouldin Street	C
1-25 N. Bradford Street	C	B-4847 -- Alley Houses
2-16 N. Bradford Street	C	B-4848 -- Alley Houses
100-136 N. Bradford Street	C	B-4846 -- Alley Houses
101-137 N. Bradford Street	C	B-4845 -- Alley Houses
18-98 (even) N. Bradford Street	C
27-99 (odd) N. Bradford Street	C
3701-3725 (odd) Centre Place	C
3400-3930 (even) Claremont Street	C
3401-3723 (odd) Claremont Street	C
131 N. Clinton Street	C	J. Lutz Garage (Auggie's Car Care Center)
2-126 (even) N. Clinton Street	C
100-418 (even) S. Clinton Street	C
1-131 (odd) N. Clinton Street	C
101-419 (odd) S. Clinton Street	C
201-231 S. Conkling Street	C	Our Lady of Pompeii Roman Catholic Church
300 S. Conkling Street	C	The Highland Lodge No. 184 AF & AM
2-224 (even) N. Conkling Street	C
2-426 (even) S. Conkling Street	C
1-429 (odd) S. Conkling Street	C
2-140 (even) S. Curley Street	C
2-164 (even) N. Curley Street	C
1-141 (odd) S. Curley Street	C
1-165 (odd) N. Curley Street	C
100-410 (even) S. Dean Street	C
35-409 (odd) S. Dean Street	C
2-164 (even) N. Decker Avenue	C
2-42 (even) S. Decker Avenue	C
1-165 (odd) N. Decker Avenue	C
1-43 (odd) S. Decker Avenue	C
2-156 (even) N. East Avenue	C
2-420 (even) S. East Avenue	C
1-123 (odd) N. East Avenue	C
1-429 (odd) S. East Avenue	C
3134 Eastern Avenue	C	The Patterson Theater
3134-3928 (even) Eastern Avenue	C
100-420 (even) S. Eaton Avenue	C
231 S. Eaton Street	C	B-1397 -- Highland Elementary School
101-417 (odd) S. Eaton Street	C
2-148 (even) S. Ellwood Avenue	C
2-228 (even) N. Ellwood Avenue	C
1-209 (odd) N. Ellwood Avenue	C
1-441 (odd) S. Ellwood Avenue	C
101 S. Ellwood Street	C	Highlandtown Middle School
3238-3636 (even) Esther Place	C
3201-3531 (odd) Esther Place	C
100-210 (even) Fagley Street	C
201-211 (odd) Fagley Street	C
2304-3536 (even) E. Fairmount Avenue	C
2303-3537 (odd) E. Fairmount Avenue	C
2922-3116 (even) E. Fayette Street	C
3500-3638 (even) E. Fayette Street	C
2313-3637 (odd) E. Fayette Street	C
1-27 N. Glover Street	C	B-4877 -- Alley Houses
2-26 N. Glover Street	C	B-4878 -- Alley Houses
100-138 N. Glover Street	C	B-4876 -- Alley Houses
101-139 N. Glover Street	C	B-4875 -- Alley Houses
28-98 (even) N. Glover Street	C
29-99 (odd) N. Glover Street	C
3403 Gough Street	C	Deutche Evangelical Salem Kirche (Salem United Methodist Church)
3402-3740 (even) Gough Street	C
3401-3925 (odd) Gough Street	C
330 S. Grundy Street	C	I.C. Issacs & Company
200-432 (even) S. Grundy Street	C
201-231 (odd) S. Grundy Street	C
200-228 (even) S. Haven Street	C
2-122 (even) N. Highland Avenue	C
2-430 (even) S. Highland Avenue	C
1-151 (odd) N. Highland Avenue	C
1-421 (odd) S. Highland Avenue	C
4-1 S. Highland Street	C	Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church
200 S. Highland Street	C	Highland Methodist Episcopal Church (New Light Church)
2-156 (even) N. Kenwood Avenue	C
1-157 (odd) N. Kenwood Avenue	C
2-156 (even) N. Lakewood Avenue	C
1-157 (odd) N. Lakewood Avenue	C
3208-3446 (even) Leverton Avenue	C
3201-3519 (odd) Leverton Avenue	C
158 N. Linwood Avenue	C	The Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch Number 13
2-158 (even) N. Linwood Avenue	C
1-147 (odd) S. Linwood Avenue	C
1-157 (odd) N. Linwood Avenue	C
3100-3738 (even) E. Lombard Street	C
3201-3927 (odd) E. Lombard Street	C
2-156 (even) N. Luzerne Avenue	C
1-159 (odd) N. Luzerne Avenue	C
2-156 (even) N. Milton Avenue	C
1-157 (odd) N. Milton Avenue	C
2-130 (even) N. Montford Avenue	C
3-147 (odd) N. Montford Avenue	C
3400-3924 (even) Mt. Pleasant Avenue	C
3401-3933 (odd) Mt. Pleasant Avenue	C
3204-3536 (even) Noble Street	C
3201-3449 (odd) Noble Street	C
15-153 (odd) N. Patterson Park Avenue	C
1-27 N. Port Street	C	B-4862 -- Alley Houses
2-26 N. Port Street	C	B-4863 -- Alley Houses
100-138 N. Port Street	C	B-4861 -- Alley Houses
101-139 N. Port Street	C	B-4860 -- Alley Houses
28-98 (even) N. Port Street	C
29-99 (odd) N. Port Street	C
2-138 (even) S. Potomac Street	C
2-164 (even) N. Potomac Street	C
1-139 (odd) S. Potomac Street	C
1-165 (odd) N. Potomac Street	C
3300 E. Pratt Street	C	St. Paul's English Evangelical Lutheran Church
2900-3930 (even) E. Pratt Street	C
3201-3931 (odd) E. Pratt Street	C
2901 Pulaski Highway	C	Episcopal Church of the Resurrection (Gospel Faith Baptist Church)
3601-3641 (odd) Pulaski Highway	C
3600-3638 (even) Roberts Place	C
3601-3639 (odd) Roberts Place	C
2-444 (even) S. Robinon Street	C
1-445 (odd) S. Robinson Street	C
100-138 (even) Rochester Place	C
1-139 (odd) Rochester Place	C
1-27 N. Rose Street	C	B-4870 -- Alley Houses
2-26 N. Rose Street	C	B-4871 -- Alley Houses
28-138 (even) N. Rose Street	C
29-137 (odd) N. Rose Street	C
2-148 (even) N. Streeper Street	C
1-165 (odd) N. Streeper Street	C
3310-3312 E. Baltimore Street	NC
3701-3703 E. Baltimore Street	NC
3705 E. Baltimore Street	NC
3700-3706 Bank Street	NC
3705 Bank Street	NC
3728-3738 Bank Street	NC
200-206 S. Bouldin Street	NC
123 N. Clinton Street	NC
249-257 S. Clinton Street	NC
321-325 S. Conkling Street	NC
Corner Dean & Chestle Place	NC
412-425 S. East Avenue	NC
3612-3616 Eastern Avenue	NC
3728-3730 Eastern Avenue	NC
3732-3736 Eastern Avenue	NC
3810-3812 Eastern Avenue	NC
3914 Eastern Avenue	NC
101-111 S. Eaton Street	NC
303 S. Eaton Street	NC
2401-2407 E. Fayette Street	NC
2601 -2609 E. Fayette Street	NC
2805 E. Fayette Street	NC
3333 E. Fayette Street	NC
3725-3727 Gough Street	NC
310 S. Grundy Street	NC
3513-3515 E. Lombard Street	NC
3601 E. Lombard Street	NC
3619 E. Lombard Street	NC
3923 E. Lombard Street	NC
3204-3224 Noble Street	NC
3211-3217 Noble Street	NC
3423 Noble Street	NC
3449 Noble Street	NC
3211 E. Pratt Street	NC
201 N. Kenwood Avenue