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Historically, Baltimore had at least two districts that were called "Chinatown" where the first one existed on the 200 block of Marion Street [1] during the 1880s. A second and current location is at the 300 block of Park Ave. , which was dominated by laundries and restaurants.
Museum of Baltimore Legal History - established 1990s in former Orphans Court chambers at the 1896-1900 Clarence Mitchell Baltimore City Courthouse between North Calvert and Saint Paul Streets - open for Courthouse visitors intermittently - historical artifacts/exhibits of Baltimore’s Bench and Bar, managed by the Baltimore Courthouse and Law ...
Here constructed 1893-1895 in Richardson Romanesque Revival style, facing north towards West Centre Street, designed by local prominent architectural firm of Baldwin & Pennington, (Ephraim Francis Baldwin, [1846-1916], and Josias Pennington, [1854-1929]), to replace earlier English Tudor Revival style building (which faced east towards North ...
In the late 2010s, there have been attempts to revive and revitalize the Chinese-American presence in historic Chinatown, most notably by the Chinatown Collective, a group of Asian-American artists. In January 2019, the Collective reached an agreement with a group of non-Asian investors to for a $30,000,000 investment project in Chinatown ...
Towson University is helping to preserve Baltimore's first unofficial "Koreatown" and its culture. The neighborhood began to form in the 1960s and was at its height in the 1990s in the Charles ...
The Chinatown was largely gone by the First World War due to urban renewal. [33] By the 1970s, hardly any Chinese people lived in the city. [34] There are now debates about whether Baltimore should revitalize the old Chinatown in the location of Park Avenue or build a new one about a mile north at Charles Street and North Avenue. [35]
The cemetery was built in 1884 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 11, 2010. [2] It was established by members of Baltimore's Czech community as a burial ground for Protestant and irreligious Czechs. [3]
The MCHC has been located at the Enoch Pratt House in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, since 1919. [7] Built in 1847, the Enoch Pratt House was presented to MdHS in 1916 by Ms. Mary Washington Keyser as a tribute to her husband, H. Irvine Keyser, who was a member of MdHS from 1835 until his death in 1916.