Old West Baltimore Historic District is a national
historic district in
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was ...
,
Maryland,
United States. It is primarily a
row house neighborhood of approximately 175 city blocks directly northwest of downtown Baltimore. The district includes other housing from grand mansions to alley houses, as well as churches, public buildings (primarily schools), commercial buildings, and landscaped squares.
Pennsylvania Avenue, the main street of the community, features a later 20th century municipal market house. Within the district are civic monuments that relate to Baltimore's premier historic African-American community. Such noteworthy figures as Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Congressman
Parren Mitchell, jazz artist
Cab Calloway
Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, conductor and dancer. He was associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he was a regular performer and became a popular vocalist ...
, civil rights leader
Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson
Lillie May Carroll Jackson (May 25, 1889 – July 5, 1975), pioneer civil rights activist, organizer of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. Invariably known as "Dr. Lillie", "Ma Jackson", and the "mother of the civil rights movement", Lillie May C ...
, and
Carl Murphy
Carl Murphy (January 17, 1889 – February 25, 1967) was an African-American journalist, publisher, civil rights leader, and educator. He was publisher of the ''Afro-American'' newspaper chain of Baltimore, Maryland, expanding its coverage with re ...
, editor of the ''
Baltimore Afro-American
The ''Baltimore Afro-American'', commonly known as ''The Afro'' or ''Afro News'', is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the flagship newspaper of the ''AFRO-American'' chain and the longest-running Africa ...
'' newspaper, lived and / or worked in the area.
Old West Baltimore Historic District was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
References
External links
*, including photo from 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the Old West Baltimore Historic District, Baltimore City at Maryland Historical Trust
African-American history in Baltimore
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore
Greek Revival architecture in Maryland
Victorian architecture in Maryland
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