1627 Aliceanna Street, is a rare eighteenth century wooden house, built in 1797 and once home to "The Academy" run by schoolmaster Nicholas Leeke. Leeke's daughter, Mary, married a young sea captain, Henry Dashiell, who was a privateer in the War of 1812 and lived in a mansion at Aliceanna Street and Broadway. The Preservation Society of Fells Point and Federal Hill was deeded this and other historic properties by the Dashiell sisters, great-great granddaughters of Nicholas Leeke, when the City of Baltimore issued a "rehab or raze" order on the properties in 2006.

Thankfully, after three years of blood, sweat, tears, and many volunteer hours, the once-derelict wooden house at 1627 Aliceanna Street is rehabilitated and now reoccupied as a family home.

1627 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, MD 21231

Private residence

South Bond Street features a handful of nineteenth century wooden houses, including several built before the War of 1812. A relatively diverse population of European descent made up the neighborhood during the early 1800s. Martin Breitenoder, a German, owned a bakery at 820-22 S. Bond (c.1802). His neighbors included a French cabinetmaker, an Italian named S. Belli, who manufactured “philosophical apparatus and other works in pewter and lead,” and an Irishman who ran a tavern at the “Sign of the Revenue Barge.” Irish, English, and Scottish boot and shoemakers are nearby, one of whom, Edward Hagthorp, made fine shoes at 816 S. Bond.

The street’s finest house, 830 S. Bond (c. 1783) passed from builder Thomas Winning to his daughter in the 1790s before Thames Street innkeeper Daniel James acquired the house after the War of 1812.

809 South Bond Street is a good example of the simple wooden houses that filled Fells Point at that time. Deed research has only identified the owners as far back as 1851, when the property was sold to John Fernandis and Maria Locke.

800 S. Bond Street, Baltimore, MD 21231

713 South Ann Street is a rare wooden house surviving within a row from 711 to 715 South Ann Street. Built around 1800, the 1804 City Directory lists Patrick Travis, a sea-captain, as the resident of the house at the time. The earliest deed located for the property is from 1851 and shows the house being sold to Anna Maria White from John J. Roose on November 28th of that year.

After it was covered by formstone for a number of years, owner and construction expert Glenn Henley restored the old wood facade in 2001.

713 S. Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21231