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A HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN BALTIMORE AND MARYLAND Compiled by Richard Longstreth 1997, last revised 10 May 2019 This compilation focuses on scholarly work concerning the history of the built environment in Baltimore and other parts of Maryland. Several important general and pictorial histories are included as well. I have not included citations for Montgomery and Prince George's counties, which can be found in Richard Longstreth, comp., "A Historical Bibliography of the Built Environment in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area," on this website. Most writings date from the past three decades. Thanks go to David Chase, Peter Kurtze, Therese O'Malley, Orlando Ridout V, Walter Schamu, Damie Stillman, and Robert Vogel for adding to this list. Additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Please send them to me at [email protected]. B A L T I M O R E, C I T Y A N D C O U N T Y Alexander, Gregory J., and Paul Kelsey Williams, Lost Baltimore, London: Pavilion, 2013 Alexander, Robert L., “Architecture and Aristocracy: The Cosmopolitan Style of Latrobe and Godefroy,” Maryland Historical Magazine 56 (fall 1962): 229-43 ____________________, The Architecture of Maximilian Godefroy, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974 ____________________, “Baltimore Row Houses of the Early Nineteenth Century,” American Studies 16 (fall 1975): 65-76 ____________________, “The Ridell-Carroll House in Baltimore,” Winterthur Portfolio 28 (summer-autumn 1993): 113-39 ____________________, “Neoclassical Wrought Iron in Baltimore,” Winterthur Portfolio 18 (summer-autumn 1983): 147-86 ____________________, “Nicholas Rogers, Gentleman-Architect of Baltimore,” Maryland Historical Magazine 78 (summer 1983): 85-105 ____________________, “The Public Memorial and Godefroy's Battle Monument,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 18 (March 1958): 19-24 1 ____________________, “The Union Bank, by Long after Soane,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 22 (October 1963): 135-37 ____________________, “’Wealth Well Bestowed in Worship’: St. Paul’s in Baltimore from Robert Cary Long to Richard Upjohn,” Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (summer 1991): 123-50 ___________________, “William F. Small, ‘Architect of the City’,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 20 (May 1961): 63-77 Almaguer, Tim, and Friends of Patterson Park, Baltimore’s Patterson Park, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2006 Andrews, Andrea, "The Baltimore School Building Program, 1870-1900: A Study in Urban Reform," Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (fall 1975): 260-74 Arnold, Joseph L., "Baltimore: Southern Culture and Northern Economy," in Richard M. Bernard, ed., Snowbelt Cities: Metropolitan Politics in the Northeast and Midwest Since World War II, Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990, 25-39 Arthur, Catherine Rogers, and Cindy Kelly, Homewood House, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 Arwade, Sanjay R., et al., “Structural Systems of the Bollman Truss Bridge at Savage, Maryland,” APT Bulletin 37:1 (2006): 27-35 Avery, Carlos P., E. Francis Baldwin, Architect: The B&O, Baltimore, and Beyond, Baltimore: Baltimore Architecture Foundation, 2003 Barrett, Heather Lynn, “Baltimore Society and the Fashionable Squares of Mount Vernon Place and Eutaw Place,” M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 2004 Beirne, D. Randall, “Hampden-Woodbury: The Mill Village in an Urban Setting,” Maryland Historical Magazine 100 (winter 2005): 446-67 _______________, “Residential Growth and Stability in the Baltimore Industrial Community of Canton during the Late Nineteenth Century,” Maryland Historical Magazine 74 (March 1978): 39-51 Beirne, Francis F., and Carleton Jones, Baltimore, a Picture History, 1957, 3rd rev. ed., Baltimore: Bodine & Associates and Maclay & Associates, 1982 Beirne, Rosamond Randall, "The Chase House in Maryland," Maryland Historical Magazine 49 (September 1954), 177-95 Belfoure, Charles, Edmund G. Lind, Anglo-American Architect of Baltimore and the South, Baltimore: Baltimore Architecture Foundation, 2009 Bennett, Sari J., and Charles M. Christian, eds., Baltimore: A Perspective on Historical Urban Development, [Washington]: Association of American Geographers, 1989 Bevan, Edith R., "Druid Hill, Country Seat of the Rogers and Buchanan Families," Maryland Historical Magazine 44 (September 1949): 190-99 2 _______________, "Willow Brook, Country Seat of John Donnell," Maryland Historical Magazine 44 (March 1949): 33-41 Bogar, Gretchen, “The Meaning of Neighborhood in the Modern City: Baltimore’s Residential Segregation Ordinances, 1910-1913,” Journal of Urban History 25 (January 2009): 236-58 Boone, Christopher G., et al., “Parks and People: An Environmental Justice Inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99 (October 2009): 767-87 Bowditch, Eden Unger, Baltimore’s Historic Parks and Gardens, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2004 _________________, Druid Hill Park: The Heart of Historic Baltimore, Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2007 Brain, John, Givans: Village and Suburb, [Baltimore]: by the author, 1996 Breihan, Jack, A History of Wartime Middle River, Middle River, Md.: Essex-Middle River Civic Council, 1996 Browne, Gary Lawson, Baltimore in the Nation, 1789-1861, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980 Bryan, John M., Robert Mills: America's First Architect, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001 ______________, ed., Robert Mills, Architect, Washington: American Institute of Architects Press, 1989 Burdine, D. Randall, "Hampden-Woodbury: The Mill Village in an Urban Setting," Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (March 1982): 6-26 Chalfant, Randolph W., "Calvert Station: Its Structure and Significance," Maryland Historical Magazine 74 (March 1979): 11-22 ___________________, and Charles Balfoure, Niernsee & Neilson, Architects of Baltimore: Two Careers on the Edge of the Future, Baltimore: Baltimore: Baltimore Architecture Foundation, 2006 Clark, Dennis Rankin, “Baltimore, 1729-1829: The Genesis of a Community,” Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University, 1976 Cohen, James R., “Abandoned Housing: Exploring Lessons from Baltimore,” Housing Policy Debate 12:3 (2001): 415-48 Cole, Merle T., and Scott S. Sheads, Fort McHenry and Baltimore’s Harbor Defenses, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2001 Coleman, John P., Historic Amusement Parks of Baltimore, An Illustrated History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014 Colwill, Stiles Tuttle, Francis Guy, 1760-1820, Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981 Corbett, Donna C., "'Had You Followed My Advice, and Built a Plain and Convenient House': The Carrolls and Homewood," Letters and Papers on the Social Sciences and the Humanities, n.s. 6 (spring 1980): 113-23 3 Crooks, James B., "The Baltimore Fire and Baltimore Reform," Maryland Historical Magazine 65 (spring 1970): 1-17 Cucchiella, S., Baltimore Deco: An Architectural Survey of Art Deco in Baltimore, Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1984 Davis, Amy, Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017 Dehler, Katherine B., The Thomas Jencks Gladdings House, Baltimore: Bodine & Associates, 1968 Dilts, James D., and Catherine F. Black, eds., Baltimore Cast-Iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork, Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1991 Dorsey, John, and James Dilts, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture, Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 3rd rev. ed., 1997 Donovan, Erin, “Nostalgia and Tourism: Camden Yards in Baltimore,” in Paul A. Schackel, ed., Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001, 221-39 Eckels, Claire Wittler, "Baltimore's Earliest Architects, 1785-1820," Ph.D. diss., John Hopkins University, 1950 Eff, Elaine, The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013 Elder, William Voss, III, "Robert Mills' Waterloo Row," Record of the Baltimore Museum of Art 1 (1971): 1-24 Elfenbein, Jessica I., The Making of a Modern City: Philanthropy, Civic Culture, and the Baltimore YMCA, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001 __________________, and Thomas L. Hollowack, eds., Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011 Enterprising Emporiums: The Jewish Department Stores of Downtown Baltimore, Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2001 Eucher, Charles C., "The Politics of Urban Expansion: Baltimore and the Sewerage Question, 1859-1905," Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (fall 1991), 270-91 Fee, Elizabeth, et al., eds., The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991 Frank, Beryl, Way Back When in Sudbrook Park, Baltimore: Sudbrook Park, Inc., 1997 Friedrichs, Jurgen, and Allen C. Goodman, The Changing Downtown: A Comparative Study of Baltimore and Hamburg, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987 Frost, Douglas L., Making History / Making Art: MICA, Baltimo0re: Maryland Institute College of Art, 2010 4 Garrett, Jane N., "Philadelphia and Baltimore, 1790-1840: A Study of Intraregional Unity," Maryland Historical Magazine 55 (March 1960): 1-13 Giza, Joanne, and Catherine F. Black, Great Baltimore Houses: An Architectural and Social History, Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1982 Gomez, Marisela B., Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America, Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2013 Greiff, Jacqueline, Fell’s Point, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2005 Gunning, Brooke,
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