Stories tagged "Jonestown": 13
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9 North Front Street
9 North Front Street is the former residence of Thorowgood Smith, a successful merchant and Baltimore鈥檚 second mayor. Built around 1790, the Federal style residence served as Smith鈥檚 home between 1802 and 1804.
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Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture
The 82,000 square-foot Reginald F. Lewis Museum opened in 2005 and immediately made history as the first major building in downtown Baltimore designed by African American architects鈥攁 joint effort between Philip Freelon of a North Carolina firm, the鈥
East Baltimore Street Delicatessens
The history of delicatessens in East Baltimore is not limited to Lombard Street. In the thoughtfully restored 800 block of East Baltimore Street, Harry Goodman established one of the city鈥檚 earliest delicatessens at 825 E. Baltimore Street around鈥
Flag House Courts and Albemarle Square
Albemarle Square is a new residential development that makes up virtually all the housing in the Jonestown neighborhood today. Albemarle Square opened in 2006 on the footprint of the old Flag House Courts public housing project.
The history…
Jewish Immigrants on Lombard Street
In the early 1900s, more than 600 people lived in the 70 houses on just a single block of Lombard Street between Lloyd and Central Avenue. For example, two households lived in 1139 E. Lombard Street in 1910. The Bergers consisted of Morris, a鈥
Hendler Creamery Company
This building was slated for demolition in 2023.聽Looking up at this large, handsome red brick and stone building across Baltimore Street, one can just make out the remnants of 鈥淗endler Creamery Company鈥 written across the front fa莽ade. Manuel…
Jewish Working Girls Home and the Russian Night School
On a vacant lot facing the McKim Center, once stood a mid-nineteenth century Greek revival townhouse that served as the Jewish Working Girls Home in the early 1900s. The home at 1200 East Baltimore Street was a boarding house operated by the鈥
Attman's Delicatessen and Corned Beef Row
Attman鈥檚 Delicatessen at 1019 E. Lombard Street is one of just a few delis the remain at the heart of the old Lombard Street market that once stretched from Albemarle Street to Central Avenue. Imagine New York鈥檚 famed Lower East Side, minus the鈥
Presbyterian Eye, Ear & Throat Charity Hospital
Today, the entire south side of the block between Exeter and Lloyd is occupied by the Helping Up Mission, a transitional housing and recovery center which has recently completed renovation of the several historic buildings that it occupies. Their鈥
Aisquith Street Meeting House
In 1775, Patapsco Meeting, in what was then Baltimore County recorded that they wished to move their Meeting to Baltimore Town. By 1781, at the cost of $4,500, a new Meetinghouse had been erected at Fayette Street (then Pitt) and Aisquith Street鈥
McKim's Free School
The 1833 McKim Free School building is one of Baltimore鈥檚 most important landmarks with deep roots in the city鈥檚 history and an unsurpassed 175 year record of education and social service. Founder John McKim came to Baltimore as a young man,鈥
Lloyd Street Synagogue
Built in 1845 at the center of what was a thriving Jewish community in East Baltimore, the Lloyd Street Synagogue was the first synagogue erected in Maryland and today is the third-oldest standing synagogue in the country.
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B'Nai Israel Synagogue
Incorporated in 1873 shortly after the end of the Civil War as the "Russian Congregation B'nai Israel of Baltimore City," B'Nai Israel was formed by Eastern European Jews living at a hub of Jewish Baltimore along the Jones Falls…