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As early as the 1970s, Baltimore's Chinatown was in a state of decline to the point that the neighborhood was losing its Chinese characteristics. While many efforts were drawn up since then to revitalize the neighborhood, Park Avenue Chinatown practically ceased to exist with only one Chinese restaurant surviving, "The Chinatown Café".
NRHP listings in Baltimore County, which surrounds but does not include the city, are in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Baltimore County, Maryland. The central portion of the city and significant portions of the waterfront and city park system are included in the federally designated Baltimore National Heritage Area. [1]
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 ...
The city of Baltimore, Maryland includes a small Ethiopian population. The Ethiopian-American community is centered in central Baltimore, particularly in Baltimore's historic Chinatown. This neighborhood is home to many Ethiopian businesses, including restaurants, a café, and a market.
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]
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engine and passenger car from the 1830s. Baltimore faced economic stagnation unless it opened routes to the western states, as New York had done with the Erie Canal in 1820. In 1827, twenty-five merchants and bankers studied the best means of restoring "that portion of the Western trade which has recently been diverted ...
Kogetsu-Do has a long history in Fresno’s Chinatown. This picture from 1920 shows Sugimatsu Ikeda, grandfather, Sakino Ikeda, grandmother, and Roy Ikeda, uncle of its current owner, Lynn Ikeda.