Carroll Park is a nearly
public park
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (United Kingdom, UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and oth ...
located in the historic
Washington Village-Pigtown neighborhood in southwestern
Baltimore, Maryland
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. The park is bordered by Washington Boulevard to the south, Monroe Street to the west, Bayard Street to the east, and the Mount Clare Branch of the
Baltimore Terminal Subdivision railroad to the north. The park also extends westward beyond the
Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store to include the Carroll Park Golf Course.
History
Acquired by the City of Baltimore in 1890, Carroll Park is Baltimore's third oldest urban park.
The park's namesake comes from the historic
Carroll family, who owned the property surrounding
Mount Clare Mansion. After the Carrolls left Mount Clare in 1840,
German immigrants leased the land for private use, using the name ''Schuetzen Park''.
Once under city ownership, the property was landscaped for public use by the
Olmsted Brothers
The Olmsted Brothers company was a Landscape architecture, landscape architectural firm in the United States, established in 1898 by brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852–1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (1870–1957), sons of the landscape ar ...
.
The Carroll Park Golf Course is notable for being one of the first golf courses racially integrated in 1951 due to civilian protests.
Carroll Park features the historic Mount Clare Museum House, a golf course, basketball courts, baseball fields, and a skate-park.
See also
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Mount Clare, the Carroll mansion located in the center of the park.
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Mount Clare Shops, railroad yards adjacent to the B&O Railroad Museum.
References
{{Baltimore neighborhoods
1890 establishments in Maryland
German-American culture in Baltimore
Parks in Baltimore
Pigtown, Baltimore