Baltimore city’s designated landmark list

Baltimore city's designated landmark list

Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation Department of Planning

July 2012

Connections to our past Landmark Designation Process Landmark Protection and review Procedures benefits of Designation Exterior Landmark List Interior Landmark List special list Index by Name Locator Maps

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Acknowledgements: Mayor & City Council, and the owners of Baltimore City's Landmarks. You are the

stewards of this City's incredible heritage.

CHAP Commission

Mr. Donald Kann, Chair Ms. Eva Higgins, Vice Chair The Honorable Bill Henry Mr. Michael Braverman Mr. James "Buzz" Cusack Ms. Donna Cypress

Mr. Robert Embry Mr. Larry Gibson Mr. David Gleason Dr. Helena Hicks Mr. Tom Liebel Ms. Anath Ranon

CHAP Staff

Ms. Kathleen G. Kotarba, Executive Director Mr. Walter Edward Leon, City Planner III Mr. Eric L. Holcomb, City Planner III Ms. Stacy P. Montgomery, City Planner II Ms. Lauren E. Schiszik, City Planner II Mr. Jeff Jerome, Curator, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Department of Planning

Mr. Thomas Stosur, Director

Editors Kathleen G. Kotarba, Eddie Leon, and Lauren Schiszik

Contributors - Content Karen Stuhler Daley & Sarah Zadrozny

contributed greatly to this publication

Sean Brown Jessica Dalrymple Kaitlin Macre King Alexandria Liu Catriona Miller Matthew Charles Miller

Kathleen O'Connor Morgan Pierce Adriane Santacroce Angela Shaeffer Jason Sylvestre Stephanie Vender

Graphic Design and Layout Eddie Leon and Lauren Schiszik

Contributors - Photography Mia Ballard Breck Chapman Karen Daley Andrea Houseman

Eddie Leon Lauren Schiszik Sarah Zadrozny

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Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation

Connections with our Past

The buildings and sites that a community preserves help to define the physical identity and character for which a community is known. Our preserved Landmarks reveal our common values, the past that has shaped us and who we are today. Baltimore City's landmark designation process was implemented by the early creation of a local historic preservation ordinance in 1964. Today, Baltimore is in good company with 1,200 other communities that formally preserve their locally-significant landmarks in a similar fashion. Since 1971, the buildings and sites which have been designated as Landmarks by City ordinance include treasured links to the past and the finest architecture that graces our streets. In 2009, the Landmarks program was expanded, with a public interior designation category. It is the responsibility of the Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation (CHAP) to coordinate the designation process, which can protect these valuable assets. The designation of new Baltimore City Landmarks is an ongoing service of the City of Baltimore.

Landmark Designation Process

Landmarks are created through a process which typically begins with research conducted by CHAP and the property owner. Any interested party - preferably the property owner - may recommend an addition to the list. Under Article I, Section 40 of the Baltimore City Code (CHAP Ordinance), a legal process is established to formally create landmarks. The process includes recommendation of designation by CHAP and the Planning Commission and the formal passage of a designation ordinance by the City Council. This publication is organized in accordance with the chronology of designation ordinances. Due process is followed when designation is considered, including the convening of three public hearings, during which public testimony about designation is considered.

The Baltimore City Landmark List identifies individual historically significant structures that may or may not be within a local historic district, which in Baltimore is referred to as a CHAP District. In making recommendations for new designations, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) considers the following criteria. The quality of significance in Baltimore history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, public interiors, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and:

1. That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of

Baltimore history; or

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That are associated with the lives of persons significant in Baltimore's past; or

3. That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or

that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a

significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or

4. That have yielded or may be likely to yield information important in Baltimore prehistory or

history.

The above criteria mirror the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, which were developed by the National Park Service to determine historic significance in American history and culture. CHAP's criteria determines historic significance in Baltimore history and culture.

Baltimore City's Designated Landmarks

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