We’ll be joined by John Tilghman, Ph.D, Associate Professor of History, Tuskegee University, who will discuss his essay, "The Show of Strength Such Has Seldom Seen: Blockbusting and the Black Electoral Politics in 1950s Baltimore’s West Side," winner of the Baltimore City Historical Society’s 2019 Joseph A. Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore’s History. After World War II, blockbusting enabled black homeowners to move into formerly white neighborhoods in Baltimore's old Fourth District, enabling independent Black politicians to undermine the white political machine's power. Blockbusting and electoral politics is a Baltimore story of civil rights and political empowerment.

Jean Lee Cole, Professor of English at Loyola University of Maryland, will join us via Zoom to discuss a new anthology, Parole Femine: Words and Lives of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore (2019).

Members of the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore, founded in 1890, met weekly for five decades to share their writing. Club members published over a thousand novels, poems, short stories, plays, and histories. Cole leads a team of undergraduate students supported by an Aperio grant from Loyola University Maryland's Center for the Humanities in transcribing and interpreting these papers and the writings produced by member of the Club. In addition to a website housing a digital repository of the papers of the Club, they have published an anthology of writings by Club members, Parole Femine: Words and Lives of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore (2019).

CHAP Hearing Agenda

May 11, 2021

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that as the City is responding to the current COVID-19 health crisis, it is important to keep members of the public, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), and staff as safe as possible. For that reason, we will conduct this meeting as a remote video conference meeting through WebEx. We will continue to update you as needed. 

Simple instructions to using WebEx available here.

You may join by computer or smartphone at: https://bmore.webex.com/bmore/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecaff49e3953229217427a1dc4cdcde46

Call in Number: +1-408-418-9388 Access code: 173 414 2426

We encourage the submission of written testimony prior to the hearing; testimony should be sent to eric.holcomb@baltimorecity.gov by 10 am on May 11. There will also be an opportunity to provide testimony during the hearing via phone or video conference.

12:30 Briefing Session
Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports

1:00 Public Hearing
Minutes – April 13, 2021

 CONSENT AGENDA

507 Park Avenue (Mount Vernon Historic District)
Request: Concept Review - Construct two-story rear addition
Applicant: Josh Nicodemus, NW2 Engineers
Staff:  Caitlin Audette

1517 Eastern Avenue (Fells Point Historic District)
Request: Demolition Hearing I- Determination of Architectural Significance- Demolition of non-contributing building
Applicant: Brandon Chasen
Staff: Eddie Leon

 REGULAR AGENDA

1:05 PM   
6108 Maywood Avenue (Mount Washington Historic District)
Request: Construct rear, garage, and side porch additions. Install new front porch and new dormers on roof.
Applicant: Scott Bloomberg
Staff:  Eddie Leon

3406 Auchentoroly Terrace (Auchentoroly Terrace Historic District)
Request: Demolition Hearing I- Determination of Architectural Significance-Demolish rear garage
Applicant: Deborah Lee
Staff: Eddie Leon

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act. If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

Agendas and other information about CHAP can be found on our website: chap.baltimorecity.gov

Joining us via Zoom will be Amy Nathan and Sharon Langley, co-authors of A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story, who will tell the story of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park and the 1963 civil rights demonstrations that led to its desegregation. The narrative is told from the perspective of co-author Sharon Langley, whose family was among the first African Americans to be admitted and an iconic photograph captured her riding the carousel. Suitable for young audiences and adults.

“A Ride to Remember tells how a community came together—both black and white—to make a change. When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African-American families were not allowed entry. This book reveals how in the summer of 1963, due to demonstrations and public protests, the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Co-author Sharon Langley was the first African-American child to ride the carousel. This was on the same day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Langley’s ride to remember demonstrated the possibilities of King’s dream. This book includes photos of Sharon on the carousel, authors’ notes, a timeline, and a bibliography.”

At 7 PM on March 18, 2021, we’ll meet Webster Phillips of the I. Henry Phillips Photo Project via Zoom. Phillips has spent the past few years digitizing the photographs of his grandfather, Henry Phillips, a photographer for the AFRO, and his father, Irving Phillips, the first Black photographer at The Baltimore Sun. For three generations, Webster Phillips’s family has been documenting life in Baltimore — from segregation to Brown v. Board, Roosevelt to Reagan to Obama. His father and grandfather worked for the The Sun and the AFRO, as well as for themselves, covering major national events with as much care as they covered graduations and birthday parties.

We’ll join David Schley via Zoom at 7:00 PM on February 18, 2021 to discuss his book, Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore (The University of Chicago Press, 2020). To register and get the link, send an email to baltohistoryeve@gmail.com.

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B& O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits.

Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy.

Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.

CHAP Hearing Agenda, February 9, 2021

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that as the City is responding to the current COVID-19 health crisis, it is important to keep members of the public, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), and staff as safe as possible. For that reason, we will conduct this meeting as a remote video conference meeting through WebEx. We will continue to update you as needed. 

Simple instructions to using WebEx available here.

You may join by computer or smartphone at: https://bmore.webex.com/bmore/onstage/g.php?MTID=e028ddaa2f431f5467fa5074d010d9ca4

Call in Number: +1-408-418-9388 Access code: 179 905 9604

We encourage the submission of written testimony prior to the hearing; testimony should be sent to eric.holcomb@baltimorecity.gov by 10 am on February 9. There will also be an opportunity to provide testimony during the hearing via phone or video conference.

12:30 Briefing Session
Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports
Review of HCD Code Enforcement of Unauthorized Demolition with HCD attorney

 1:00 Public Hearing
Minutes – January 12, 2021

CONSENT AGENDA

640 Melvin Street (Ridgely’s Delight Historic District)
Request:  Concept Review - Construct Rear Addition
Applicant: Neil Junker (consultant); Division LLC-Decceco Dockins (owner)
Staff:  Eddie Leon

 City Council Bill 21-0002 – Real Property Tax Installment Plans
Request: Review and Respond to City Council Bill 21-0002
Applicant: Councilmembers Ramos, Dorsey, Burnett, Middleton, Stokes, McCray, Bullock, Schleifer, Cohen, Torrence, and Council President Mosby
Staff:  Stacy Montgomery

REGULAR AGENDA

1:05 PM   
Baltimore City Historic Preservation Design Guidelines
Request: Revise design guidelines to clarify the language in certain sections and to correct typos
Staff:  Caitlin Audette

 223 East Churchill Street (Federal Hill Historic District)
Request: Concept Review - Construct rear/rooftop addition with front deck/balcony
Applicant: Jim Shetler, Trace Architects; Andrew Germek (owner)
Staff: Walter Gallas

 1:30 PM
3535 Clipper Road (Woodberry Historic District)
Request: Concept Review - Construct a five-story apartment building
Applicant: Gordon Godat, AIA, JP2 Architects (architect); 3535 Clipper, LLC (owner)
Staff: Walter Gallas, Caitlin Audette

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the
Open Meetings Act. If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

Agendas and other information about CHAP can be found on our website:

chap.baltimorecity.gov

Baltimore History Evenings Presents:

Old West Baltimore
Commemorating the Nation’s Largest Registered African American Historic District

We’ll join Philip J. Merrill via Zoom at 7:00 PM on January 21, 2021 to celebrate the publication of his book, Images of America: Old West Baltimore (Arcadia Publishing, 2020).

Merrill founded Nanny Jack & Company in 1994, an archives and consulting agency specializing in creating projects that illuminate the African experience through memorabilia, oral history, and research. The company would eventually house over 30,000 artifacts, including photographs, rare books, folk art, documentaries, music, dolls, furniture, and quilts.


Merrill combed the Nanny Jack & Co Archives to uncover and document the Old West Baltimore Historic District through material culture, oral history, and in-depth research. The book is a culmination of some of this work.

Merrill was as a member of the Chesapeake Collectibles appraiser team on Maryland Public Television for eight seasons and a Black Americana specialist on Antiques Roadshow for six seasons. He is the author of The Art of Collecting Black Memorabilia (Gateway Press 1998), The Black America Series: Baltimore (Arcadia Publishing, 1999), and editor of The World War II Black Regiment that Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History (University Press of Mississippi, 2002).

To register and get the link, send an email to baltohistoryeve@gmail.com.

CHAP Hearing, December 8, 2020

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that as the City is responding to the current COVID-19 health crisis, it is important to keep members of the public, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), and staff as safe as possible. For that reason, we will conduct this meeting as a remote video conference meeting through WebEx. We will continue to update you as needed. 

Simple instructions to using WebEx available here.

You may join by computer or smartphone at: https://bmore.webex.com/bmore/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecf84b05267200c0e317663cdd6cf2445

Call in Number: +1-408-418-9388 Access code: 179 672 8167

We encourage the submission of written testimony prior to the hearing; testimony should be sent to eric.holcomb@baltimorecity.gov by 10 am on November 10. There will also be an opportunity to provide testimony during the hearing via phone or video conference.
12:30 Briefing Session
Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports

1:00 Public Hearing
Minutes – November 10, 2020

REGULAR AGENDA

1:05    500 South Broadway (Fells Point Historic District) 
Request: Concept Review - Construct a five-story apartment building 
Applicant: Carballo Architecture (architect)
Staff: Eddie Leon 

1:30     507 South Durham Street (Fells Point Historic District) 
Request: Concept Review- Construct a 4-story infill rowhouse with double-garage front 
Applicant: Carballo Architecture (architect)
Staff: Eddie Leon 

2:00     617 South Wolfe Street (Fells Point Historic District) 
Request: Concept Review – Construct a 2nd and 3rd story addition on top of a one-story garage 
Applicant: Carballo Architecture (architect); Matthew and Nicole Friend (owners)  
Staff: Eddie Leon 

2:30     1810 Fleet Street (Fells Point Historic District) 
Request: Retain Mural painted without permits 
Applicant: Andy Dahl
Staff: Eddie Leon 

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act. If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

Agendas and other information about CHAP can be found on our website:

chap.baltimorecity.gov

Baltimore Mid-Century. People, Places, Priorities in the 1950s

Jack Burkert, Senior Museum Educator - Baltimore Museum of Industry Sunday, November 15, 2020, from 2 to 4 pm

To register: REGISTER

In the 1950s, Baltimore rebuilt, restored, revised and occasionally endured a series of changes that forever changed the fabric of the city. This decade made lasting changes to the way and where people lived, how they moved in and around the city and the region, and to many places of employment. From the early “crisis” in absorbing returning veterans and the families then being created to the way those new families would seek entertainment and recreation, Baltimore would be a far different place in 1959 than it was in 1950. A decade many recall, but it was also a time that few realize how much of Baltimore’s 21st Century had roots in the 1950s.

Jack Burkert is a Baltimore Native currently working in his retirement/second career job as an educator at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Jack graduated from the University of Maryland with honors with a degree in history and education. He joined the BMI as a Museum Educator in 2010.

Part of our joint Speakers Series. Admission: FREE to HSBC & BCHS members; Non-members also FREE, Registration required

While we are offering this program for free, as a nonprofit in these challenging times we certainly appreciate any support you offer by joining as a member or making a donation. You can do this when you register.

Location: Note this is a virtual presentation hosted on Zoom ONLY. 

Questions? Please contact us at info@hsobc.org

MCHC Core Conversations

Learn about our new core values—Discovery, Dialogue, Authenticity, Community—through MCHC Core Conversations, a four-part virtual program series.

What does it mean to be authentic? How does authenticity play a role in the way we collect objects and stories? Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick, producers of the WYPR documentary series “Out of the Blocks,” joins David Armenti, Director of Education, in a conversation about “authenticity.” 

This virtual program is free and open to all audiences. Registration is required. After registering for the program, attendees will receive an automated confirmation email with connection instructions.

Register Here

CHAP Hearing Agenda, November 10, 2020

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that as the City is responding to the current COVID-19 health crisis, it is important to keep members of the public, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), and staff as safe as possible. For that reason, we will conduct this meeting as a remote video conference meeting through WebEx. We will continue to update you as needed. 

Simple instructions to using WebEx available here.

You may join by computer or smartphone at: https://bmore.webex.com/bmore/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb3ce6f9b5b5dc051deb34d34b26c751e 

Call in Number: +1-408-418-9388 Access code: 173 197 0390

We encourage the submission of written testimony prior to the hearing; testimony should be sent to eric.holcomb@baltimorecity.gov by 10 am on November 10. There will also be an opportunity to provide testimony during the hearing via phone or video conference.

12:30 Briefing Session: Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports
1:00 Public Hearing: Minutes – October 13, 2020

CONSENT AGENDA

1525 Charles Street – Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore City Landmark)
Request: Exterior rehabilitation and restoration
Applicant: Penn Station Partners, LLC (owner), Quinn Evans (architect)
Staff: Lauren Schiszik

 REGULAR AGENDA

1:05    814 Park Avenue (Mount Vernon Historic District)
Request: Concept Review - Construct four-story apartment building at rear of property
Applicant: Mirza Baig (owner), Neal Curtis, Carballo Architecture (architect)
Staff: Caitlin Audette

1:30     601 South Broadway (Fells Point Historic District)
Request: Concept Review-Construct 3-story addition on top of existing building
Applicant: Five Seas Limited Partnership (owner), Justin Seto (architect)
Staff: Eddie Leon

2:00     221 West Franklin Street (Howard Street Commercial Historic District)
Request: Final Review - Construct 5-story apartment building
Applicant: HeLa Franklin LLC (owner), Urban Design Group (architect)
Staff: Stacy Montgomery

2:30     3535 Clipper Road (Woodberry Historic District)
Request: Concept Review - Construct a five-story apartment building
Applicant: Gordon Godot, AIA, JP2 Architects
Staff: Walter Gallas, Caitlin Audette

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act.

If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

Agendas and other information about CHAP can be found on our website: chap.baltimorecity.gov

Presented as part of Doors Open Baltimore 2020 Arts & Culture Week

Join Red Emma’s, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, and Baltimore City Historical Society for a special presentation by author Ron Cassie on his new book If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories.

Baltimore senior editor Ron Cassie has garnered national awards for his coverage of the death of Freddie Gray, sea-level rise on the Eastern Shore, and the opioid epidemic in Hagerstown. This collection of short stories, culled from a decade spent roaming around Charm City with a notebook in his back pocket, is different, however. They are of the kind of wide-ranging city writing and literary journalism that speaks directly to the fabric of a place. There are encounters with former Rep. Elijah Cummings, former Senator Barbara Mikulski, and Orioles Hall-of-Famer Jim Palmer. But more often, these stories revolve around people few Baltimoreans have heard of—a blind police detective, old Jewish boxers, a flower shop owner, the city native who created the statue of Billie Holiday in Upton. Each story makes the picture of Baltimore and its work-a-day inhabitants—gritty, resilient, quirky—clearer and more complex at the same time.

BCHS Presents a Virtual History Evening with Mary Rizzo:

Mermaids and Promenades: William Donald Schaefer and the Cultural Redevelopment of Baltimore

based on her new book, Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire

In the 1970s, Mayor William Donald Schaefer used arts and culture to sell a new image of Baltimore as quirky and charming to both tourists and business leaders. In this talk, Mary Rizzo will examine forgotten moments from Schaefer’s terms as mayor, from the creation of a failed local version of the Oscars, called “The Don” awards to honor Baltimore’s film business, to the Baltimore Promenade, a public art project designed to integrate city neighborhoods through the act of walking. While Schaefer is remembered for large-scale projects like Harborplace and stunts like posing with a mermaid for the opening of the Baltimore aquarium, his legacy should include his reimagining city government to include arts and culture--for good and ill.

This is an online event. Please send an email to BaltoHistoryEve@gmail.com to receive the link necessary for participation.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that as the City is responding to the current COVID-19 health crisis, it is important to keep members of the public, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), and staff as safe as possible. For that reason, we will conduct this meeting as a remote video conference meeting through WebEx. We will continue to update you as needed. 

Simple instructions to using WebEx available here.

You may join by computer or smartphone at:  https://bmore.webex.com/bmore/onstage/g.php?MTID=eac75b5f91f3dd1f2ec496aebef9ec05f

Call in Number: +1-408-418-9388 Access code: 173 402 2246

We encourage the submission of written testimony prior to the hearing; testimony should be sent to eric.holcomb@baltimorecity.gov by 10 am on October 13. There will also be an opportunity to provide testimony during the hearing via phone or video conference.

12:30 Briefing Session

Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports

1:00 Public Hearing

Minutes – September 8, 2020

CONSENT AGENDA

444 Grindall Street (Federal Hill Historic District)

Request: Construct two-story rear addition with roof deck

Applicant: Charles George, architect

Staff: Walter Gallas

347 Warren Street (Federal Hill Historic District)

Request: Construct garage on existing parking pad

Applicant: John Mariani, architect

Staff: Walter Gallas

814 Park Avenue (Mount Vernon Historic District)

Request: Demolition Hearing I- Determination of Architectural Significance- Demolish one-story garage

Applicant: Mirza Baig

Staff: Caitlin Audette

3100 Greenmount Avenue - Waverly Town Hall (Baltimore City Landmark)

Request: Comprehensive exterior rehabilitation

Applicant: Charles Belfoure, consultant

Staff: Lauren Schiszik

City Council Bill #20-0607

Request: Review and Respond to City Council Bill #20-0607 - City Streets - Naming an unnamed alley, located in the rear of 216 East Biddle Street, Mura Alley

Petitioner: Councilmember Stokes

Staff: Stacy Montgomery

City Council Bill #20-0610

Request: Review and Respond to City Council Bill #20-0610- Repeal – Reisterstown Plaza Transit Station Urban Renewal Area and Plan

Petitioner: Councilmember Schleifer

Staff: Stacy Montgomery

REGULAR AGENDA

1:05 PM

421 South Broadway (Fells Point Historic District)

Request: Final Review- Construct five-story apartment building

Applicant: Brandon Chasen

Staff: Eddie Leon

221 West Franklin Street (Howard Street Commercial Historic District)

Request: Concept Review- Construct five-story apartment building

Applicant: HeLa Franklin LLC (Owner), Urban Design Group (Architect)

Staff: Stacy Montgomery

733 and 737 West Pratt Street and 207 South Fremont Avenue (Ridgely’s Delight Historic District)

Request: Concept Review- Construct a five-story addition beyond the existing three-story rowhouse facades

Applicant: Zalco Properties

Staff: Caitlin Audette

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act.

If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

Agendas and other information about CHAP can be found on our website:

chap.baltimorecity.gov

Close Read is a group exhibition featuring newly commissioned work by Akea Brionne Brown, SHAN Wallace, and Savannah Wood.

This exhibition marks the first time that artists have been explicitly invited to work within the AFRO American Newspapers’ archives. Following their individual interests, these artists have produced new work inspired by their research.

Updated: Zoom Link Here!

Join the three artists from Close Read for a discussion of their ideas and process, the importance of archives, and how this functioned as a muse for a collective exhibition with moderator Angela N. Carroll.

Brown dissects a pamphlet on urban renewal, redacting the language used to promote its cause to reveal its underlying negative effects. Wallace’s animated photo collages combine her own images with photos from the AFRO archives to celebrate nearly a century of Black women and girls’ play and labor. Wood follows a genealogical trail, connecting the AFRO’s roots back to a former plantation (now a state park) in Montgomery County. The work produced for this show highlights different artistic approaches to archival inquiry, with Baltimore’s Black communities as a common thread.

Close Read is produced by Savannah Wood and the AFRO American Newspapers. This project is supported by a grant from the Grit Fund. Additional funding was provided by the Awesome Foundation and Afro Charities.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that as the City is responding to the current COVID-19 health crisis, it is important to keep members of the public, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), and staff as safe as possible. For that reason, we will conduct this meeting as a remote video conference meeting through WebEx. We will continue to update you as needed. 

Simple instructions to using WebEx available here.

You may join by computer or smartphone at:  

https://bmore.webex.com/bmore/onstage/g.php?MTID=e72f84d1d376e9e316c02183182a842ed

Call in Number: +1-408-418-9388 Access code: 173 849 3997

We encourage the submission of written testimony prior to the hearing; testimony should be sent to eric.holcomb@baltimorecity.gov by 10 am on September 8. There will also be an opportunity to provide testimony during the hearing via phone or video conference.



12:30 Briefing Session

Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports

1:00 Public Hearing

Minutes – August 11, 2020

CONSENT AGENDA

935 Aliceanna Street (Fells Point Historic District)

Request: Demolition Hearing I- Determination of Architectural Significance - Demolish rear addition only

Applicant: Elm Street Development  

Staff: Eddie Leon 

REGULAR AGENDA

1:05     2426 Pennsylvania Avenue - Arch Social Club (Baltimore City Landmark)

Request: Install marquee with LED signage

Applicant: Richard Wagner, David H. Gleason Associates, Inc. 

Owner: Arch Social Club Inc. 

Staff: Lauren Schiszik

1:15    3535 Clipper Road (Woodberry Historic District)

            Request: Concept review - Construct a five-story apartment building

            Applicant: Gordon Godat, JP2 Architects

            Staff: Walter W. Gallas, AICP

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act.

If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

Agendas and other information about CHAP can be found on our website:

chap.baltimorecity.gov

The League of Women Voters of Baltimore City and County invite you to raise a glass to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Our featured speaker, Ida E. Jones, Ph.D., Archivist & Historian, Morgan State University, will explore the topic,

"Maryland Women in Suffrage:The Experience of Select African American Women"

Ida E. Jones is the author of four books, most recently, “Baltimore City Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot,” which won the 2019 African American Historical and Genealogical Society’s International biography book award. She graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in News Editorial Journalism and a Ph.D. in American History. 

Her dedication to archives garnered her the honor of being named Emory University’s inaugural Carter G. Woodson Research Fellow 2007. In 2020, she received an IMLS Museum Grant for African American History and Culture and the Library of America Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters Grant. In 2019, she was awarded an Authenticity Project Fellowship via the HBCU Library Alliance and Digital Library Foundation and a Schlesinger Library Oral History Grant.

Dr. Jones is co-vice president of the Baltimore City Historical Society and holds an appointment to the Board of National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. She has appeared on C-SPAN, National Public Radio, BBC radio and in numerous printed publications.

The Maryland Commission for Women

in partnership with

The Foundation for the Maryland Commission for Women

&

The Maryland Commission on the Commemoration of ​

the 100th Anniversary of the Passage of the

19th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States

https://www.2020womensummit.org/

The Baltimore City Commission on Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) will hold it’s next meeting online on August 11, 2020 at 1230.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that as the City is responding to the current COVID-19 health crisis, it is important to keep members of the public, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), and staff as safe as possible. For that reason, we will conduct this meeting as a remote video conference meeting through WebEx. We will continue to update you as needed. 

Simple instructions to using WebEx available here.

You may join by computer or smartphone at:  

https://bmore.webex.com/bmore/onstage/g.php?MTID=efadb660cc2e5774dc29849fb85d16ae4

Call in Number: +1-408-418-9388 Access code: 129 440 7589

We encourage the submission of written testimony prior to the hearing; testimony should be sent to eric.holcomb@baltimorecity.gov by 10 am on August 11. There will also be an opportunity to provide testimony during the hearing via phone or video conference.

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act.

If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

12:30 Briefing Session Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports

1:00 Public Hearing Minutes – July 14, 2020

REGULAR AGENDA

1:05

City Council Bill 20-0552 Tax Credits – Historical Properties

Request: Review and Respond

Petitioner: The City Council President, Councilman Bullock, on behalf of CHAP

Staff: Stacy Montgomery

City Council Bill 20-0548 Landmark List: Reed Calloway House, 1316 North Carey Street

Request: Designate as a Baltimore City Landmark

Petitioner: Councilman Leon Pinkett, et. al.

Owner: Trendline Properties, LLC

Staff: Lauren Schiszik

2:00

612-614 South Wolfe Street - Two Sisters Houses/Caulker's Houses (Baltimore City Landmark)

Request: Stabilize and restore exterior to 1840s-era appearance

Applicant/Owner: Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fell's Point, Inc.

Staff: Lauren Schiszik

2426 Pennsylvania Avenue - Arch Social Club (Baltimore City Landmark)

Request: Install marquee with LED signage

Applicant: Richard Wagner, David H. Gleason Associates, Inc.

Owner: Arch Social Club Inc.

Staff: Lauren Schiszik

Just because a house isn’t a famous landmark, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a rich history. Researching the history of a house can be as time consuming as genealogy, but can be equally rewarding. Learn how to use resources such as city directories, newspapers, maps, land records, historical registers, and architectural surveys to research the history of a house, even if it no longer exists. Many of these resources can be searched online. Presented by Julie Saylor, Maryland Department Librarian.

Dial-In Information

Join in Crowdcast:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/researching-the-history

The program will also be streamed to Facebook Live on the Enoch Pratt Free Library page.

Thursday, August 6 at 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Baltimore was not a major port of entry for enslaved Africans, but it played a large role in the domestic slave trade. (This evening is still in development.)

Preparing for the centennial of his North Baltimore subdivision on Cloverhill and Canterbury Roads in Tuscany-Canterbury, Joshua A. Cohen set out to discover the history of the neighborhood. Using online resources to trace deeds and relations, Josh built family trees for the homeowners of all 84 houses. He gathered extensive biographical details of those first families and made connections with their descendants, who provided personal recollections and photos. Josh will share some of his exciting finds as well as techniques that residents of any neighborhood can use to explore the history of their homes.

May 19, 1870 - More than 10,000 people celebrated the ratification of the 15th Amendment with an elaborate parade in Baltimore. Sunday May 17, 2020 - Fraternal groups, civil rights organizations, political leaders, schools, businesses, community associations, religious leaders, unions, and other organizations will assemble in Baltimore and re-enact the 1870 parade, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 15th amendment and to commit to protecting and exercising the right to vote.

The Women’s Suffrage March will join the Re-enactment Parade on May 17, 2020

Sunday May 17, 2020 - Fraternal groups, civil rights organizations, political leaders, schools, businesses, community associations, religious leaders, unions, and other organizations will assemble in Baltimore and re-enact the 1870 parade, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 15th amendment and to commit to protecting and exercising the right to vote. 

The Re-enactment Parade will begin at 3:00 PM in the 900 block of Eutaw Street  (opposite State Office Complex)

For more information, please see https://votingrightscelebration.com/

The Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) is Live Webstreaming of all Commission Hearings.

Click here to begin live streaming from any enabled device during a scheduled hearing.

****Please note: part of the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act.****

Noon: Briefing Session
Chairman’s Report, Committee Reports, Staff Reports
Mount Vernon Squares – Project background and overview of CHAP reviews to date

1:00     Public Hearing
Minutes – March 10 and April 14, 2020

CONSENT AGENDA



1126 West Baltimore Street (Union Square Historic District)

Request: Concept Review - Construct 1-story rear addition

Applicant: Adam Carballo

Staff Reviewer: Walter Gallas

                      REGULAR AGENDA

726 Colorado Avenue (Wyndhurst Historic District)

Request: Final Review - Construct three-story house

Applicant: Jeffrey Ott

Staff Presenter: Eddie Leon

830 Park Avenue (Mount Vernon Historic District)

Request: Final Review –  Construct new masonry wall and gates

Applicants: Miriam Ewers, Lynda Ewers, and Tim DeVoe

Staff Presenter:  Caitlin Audette

1809 North Forest Park Avenue (Franklintown Historic District)

Request: Hardship Request - Replace vinyl siding with vinyl siding

Applicant: Bernice Driggs

Staff Presenter: Walter Gallas

214 West Mulberry Street  (Howard Street Commercial Historic District)

Request: Hardship Request – Rehabilitation front portion of historic building. Replace existing deteriorated roof with steel trellis.

Applicant: Park Avenue Partners, LLC

Staff Presenter: Stacy Montgomery

4915 Greenspring Avenue - Cylburn Arboretum Carriage House (City-owned Property)

Proposal: Demolition of rear additions and construction of new addition

Applicant: Cylburn Arboretum Friends

Architect: Ziger/Snead

Owner: Baltimore City Department of Recreation & Parks

Staff Presenter: Lauren Schiszik

2039 Clipper Park Road – Tractor Building (Potential Landmark List)

Request: Concept Review- Incorporate Tractor Building into a seven-story mixed-use structure

Applicant: Valstone Properties Inc. 

Staff Presenter: Eric Holcomb

Please note that part of the meeting for the briefing session may be closed, as per provisions of the Open Meetings Act.

If you require special accommodations to participate in the public hearing, please contact Eric.Holcomb (Eric.Holcomb@baltimorecity.gov) at least 5 business days prior to the hearing.

Ashley Minner is a community-based visual artist, an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and Professor of the Practice and folklorist in the Department of American Studies at UMBC. She is a contributor to Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City (2019)