OUR Watershed thanks to our funders! The area covered DISCOVER by this map is City Recreation & Parks ENJOY at the juncture Elizabeth B & Arthur E Roswell Foundation LEARN of three city The Abell Foundation TAKE ACTION! sub-watersheds: Cape Foundation Jones Falls, Direct Civic Works Harbor, and Clifton Mansion Legacy Fund About This Map Baltimore Green Map Baltimore City Recreation & Parks /Back 32nd St Farmers Market believes that parks and neighborhoods can Play sports, swim, run/walk trails, use River. Our urban Baltimore Community Foundation best thrive in mutually beneficial relation- playgrounds, enjoy guided bike tours around sub-watersheds ship when the assets within them are more Lake Montebello, join leagues, garden at City HERRING RUN PARK extend across Concept & Content Janet Felsten widely known, used, and valued. That’s why Farm bcrp.baltimorecity.gov LAKE MONTEBELLO Baltimore County Design & Production Joanne Cooper Wingard con cted! we map them together. Connection leads to ne and City. Through Assistants Alexandra Lehman, Julia Heslin advocacy. Through BCRP’s Tree Baltimore get free CLIFTON PARK the Joint Watershed Agreement, both trees, learn to help maintain public green Special thanks to John Ciekot, Civic Works jurisdictions work to protect the health of our and Nearby Northeast Neighborhoods Baltimore Green Map leads collaborative spaces. Train to be a certified Weed Warrior portion of the 5-state watershed, mapmaking projects and designs education Tree Steward. TreeBaltimore.org and/or Learn how you can help to improve water quality programs. https://baltogreenmap.org Green Map® icons in city waterways: bluewaterbaltimore.org

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T Y m U history exercise Created by Graphic Tigers 33rd ST Clifton Park 1 Clifton Mansion has stood for over 200 years 16 Clifton Golf Course Built in 1915, this was the as an iconic centerpiece in the development of first public golf course in Baltimore. Desegregated in Northeast Baltimore. When Civic Works took 1948, it attracts golfers from near and far. over the Mansion as its Headquarters, it became “ ...a very walkable, well maintained course; Mayfield its caretaker, stabilizing and repairing its basic ...dramatic elevation changes, yet no more than structure. Civic Works has a longterm lease from 32nd ST a few yards between the green of one hole and 22 the City. civicworks.com tee box of the next.” a frequent golfer The Clifton Legacy Education Program 2701 St. Lo Drive, 21213 • Pro Shop 410.243.3500 (Civic Works) conducts tours and arranges for classic5golf.com/clifton_park/ 9 special presentations on Baltimore’s history and culture, often viewed through the lens of Clifton’s 17 First Tee Golf introduces youth ages 7-18 families and the world of their times. Guided tours to golf while cultivating leadership skills through are offered on the third Saturday of the month at the game, offers summer and out-of-school time 10 10am. To register for an upcoming tour or to learn sessions in group settings. more about how to train to be a volunteer docent, thefirstteebaltimore.org Coldstream Homestead Montebello Belair Edison contact [email protected] 18 Tennis Courts 11 newly renovated regulation Rentals: Clifton Mansion may be rented for private courts, lighting & spectator seating, accessible. events including weddings, community meetings Includes 2 courts striped for pickleball, 3 courts E and corporate gatherings. For more information, call striped for USTA Youth play R D 32 M 410.366.8533 or email [email protected] nd A R N ST

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select interior spaces to the ornate,1852 level of the 2013 renovation and addition includes a H decoration achieved during Johns Hopkins’ resi- multi-purpose room, computer lab, fitness center 2 dency. Restoration of the tower, grand entrance with locker rooms, game room, kitchen and arts hall with Bay of Naples mural and the south lawn & crafts room. The center hosts teen and seniors arboretum are done; the dining room will be fin- programs, basketball & football teams, exercise ished in 2019. friendsofcliftonmansion.org classes, community meetings and more. During summers, regulation-size swimming pool & splash 23 2 Hilltop House, 1879, became the official pool are open. 2701 St. Lo Drive • 410.396.8958 residence of the City Director of Recreation and 4 Parks in 1895. Now it is the headquarters for Civic 20 Multipurpose Sports Fields for baseball, THE ALAMEDA

Works Community Lots Greening programs. soccer, football bowl, running track Created by Graphic16 Tigers 13 3 Clifton Maintenance Yard was built in 1930’s 21 Playground a shady spot to climb, slide, to include stables for work horses. swing & picnic DR D EA 18 H AN DI T 1 IN t Opportunities for 7 11 Historic Restoration & Reuse 25 7 4 The Gardener’s Cottage, a picturesque gothic T

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5 Clifton Park Valve House, a Gothic revival D R FORMER LAKE CLIFTON HS IR stone and tile-roofed structure built 1887-88 to A SITE IN TRANSITION L E house the machinery that regulated the flow of B water from Lake Montebello via conduit into Lake Clifton. Abandoned in the early 1960’s, in terrible condition, but an iconic structure for the views 20 from St. Lo Drive park entrances i m a g i n e : The Valve House restored becomes a R Local Food & Exhibition venue. D O L T 6 Clifton Park Bandshell (1908, rebuilt after S fire in 1947) Another iconic element of the park, 20 damaged by a fallen tree in 2019 24 i m a g i n e : 21st century Bandshell restored for Darley Park Four By Four performances, equpped with current technology and with audience seating

7 Formal Gateways at Park Entry 15 Only the columns that marked each end of St Lo Drive and at Indian Head Dr & Belair Rd remain. nature d h ± : 20 i m a g i n e : New signage and entry lighting at Sinclair, Harford & Belair Roads 22 Mothers Garden was dedicated by Board of Park Commissioners to all the mothers of Balti- 7 19 8 Park Pathways more in 1926. Located in the northwest corner, NORTH AVE 0 0.05 0.1 0.2 i m a g i n e : a pedestrian-friendly park — paths its rustic pagoda and pergola mark the highest MILES to wander, wider sidewalks, dedicated bike lanes points in the park. The five-acre Garden includes and traffic calming measures to slow automobiles terraced flower beds, flowering trees and shrubs, South Clifton Park that pass through the park picnic tables, benches, and a Japanese-inspired footbridge that used to span a lily pond.

After a period of neglect, Mayor William Donald E Q Schaefer rededicated the garden in 1984 to culture his mom Tululu Schaefer and all mothers. The 0.4 Friends of Mothers’ Garden Association, formed T Historic Timeline K Volunteer0 | Ad0.05vocate 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 Q GREAT VIEWS in 2011, works to restore and maintain this urban oasis and hosts an annual Mothers Day event. Miles 9 Mothers Garden the rustic pagoda at park’s fomg.org 1801-1841 Our parks and community greening eforts are made stronger through highest point frames park & neighborhood views “Friends of...”organizations, Civic Works, and one-off volunteer opportunities. Get involved! 23 j Clifton City Farm, a garden plot rental Henry Thompson, shipping merchant, purchased Property improvements focused on active these rural grounds, planted crops, and built a recreation, including the golf course (1915,) the 10 First Hole of Clifton Golf Course views of program of the Recreation & Parks Department, Georgian-style mansion of local stone. He named largest concrete pool in the country (1920), play- downtown skyline and park vistas provides participants access from dawn to dusk Friends of Clifton Park convenes park users Real Food Farm Open volunteer hours include with a key to fenced, locked gardens. The gar- his estate “Clifton” after his ancestral English grounds and sports fields, a bandshell (1908), and and neighbors to advocate for park assets every Wednesday from 9am-12pm and the third lands. Learn more about Henry Thompson at Mothers Garden (1928.) 11 Mansion Tower Climb to the top for a dens have City water April through October, hoses preservation, stewardship, & improvements. Saturday of the month from 9am-12pm. Before HenryThompsonofClifton.org 360-degree overview of the city and wheelbarrows, wood chips and compost [email protected] arriving for open volunteer hours, or to set-up a during the growing season. 1960-1971 dedicated volunteer day, groups of five or more 1841-1873 Lake Clifton Reservoir is decommissioned and Friends of Mothers Garden maintains this 5-acre 12 Clifton Mansion South Lawn newly replanted should email [email protected]. Novice “farmers” are mentored by on-site garden Johns Hopkins, merchant, financier and philan- drained. Lake Clifton High School, built on its flower garden established in 1926 in the NE corner to allow admiration of Mansion architecture from of Clifton Park & holds an annual Mothers Day managers & experienced gardeners. Additional thropist, purchased the 266-acre property to use site, opened in 1971. (Now that REACH! Partner- Baltimore Orchard Project (Civic Works) across the lawn Celebration with poetry. Join in! fomg.org support is provided in the form of hands on as his summer retreat. He transformed the mansion ship School has relocated to 2555 Harford Road, strengthens communities through planting and gardening seminars, training manuals & bulletins, into an Italianate villa and shaped the grounds the property is deemed surplus, its future TBD.) Friends of St. Vincent Cemetery, consecrated in cultivating orchards, teaches long-term steward- into a gentleman’s “English country landscape.” E PUBLIC ART guiding the urban farmers through a multitude of 1853, served as final resting place for 3,841 Irish, ship and shares harvests among neighbors. seasonal challenges. 410.396.4850 • Mr. Hopkins, who died in 1873, bequeathed his 1993-present Italian, and Portuguese immigrants and their an- baltimoreorchardproject.civicworks.com bcrp.baltimorecity.gov/special-programs/farms estate as the future home of the Johns Hopkins Civic Works took over stewardship of the cestors. FOSVC formed in 2010 to restore dignity 13 On the Trail (1904) sculpture by Edward The Clifton Legacy Education Program University. Historic carriage path shown as --- neglected Mansion and made it the headquarters to the neglected burial ground. (Cemetery is Berge, Baltimorean who studied in Paris with ±: Train to be a volunteer Mansion Tour Guide. 24 Real Food Farm has been the for the organization’s many job training, skills an out-parcel within the park.) Auguste Rodin, (near the Golf snack bar) Contact [email protected] training ground for scores of urban farmers since 1874-1894 development, and community service activities. Its stvincentcemeterybaltimore.org Johns Hopkins University Trustees managed REACH! Partnership High School opened in 2007. 14 Clifton Park Clipper (2016) Art Park Project, it first broke ground in 2009. It models best the property. Mr. Hopkins intended his estate to Real Food Farm broke ground in 2008. 50’x70’ mural by Brian Dowdall (visionary) practices on 8 acres in and near Clifton Park, become the campus of the future, but when the & Alison Spiesman (contemporary) “magical growing vegetables, fruit and herbs, that it sells university was founded in 1876, this location was 1996-present Friends of Clifton Mansion formed montage” inspired by the history of the park, through the Farm Alliance at 32nd St Farmers considered too far from the city and was used to work to restore Clifton Mansion to Hopkins era the city, and the War of 1812 Market, 2 mobile Farmers Market trucks, and CSA What do folks like about.... memberships. It provides a community compost- only for student athletic fields. Mr. Hopkins aes- conditions and to exhibit the history of thetic landscape features were not maintained. Philanthropists and their roles in the development 15 Sports Murals (2016) Koryn Rolstad Studios, ing center and hands-on education opportunities. Clifton Park “scenic golf” “community center” “old trees” “historic structures” of modern American philanthropy for the benefit on exterior of Rita R. Church Community Center 443.531.8346 • realfoodfarm.civicworks.com “ Mother’s Garden in May” “view from Clifton Mansion Tower” “gardening” 1881-1888 of all without regard to race, color or creed. Sports facility 25 d Notable Trees Several City Champions Due to increased demand for water, Trustees sold “ hoop houses for year-round growing!” “tennis” “Mansion restoration” are near the Mansion – Swamp White Oak, 50 acres to Department of Public Works to construct 2013 ANNUAL EVENTS Post Oak, Bald Cypress, Nordhamm Fir – and Clifton Reservoir and the Gothic Valve House. Con- Councilwoman Rita R Church Community Center lake Montebello “a lovely place to exercise and be outside” “wind in the pines” an “Exemplary Specimen” Bur Oak. The State nected to Lake Montebello by a 1-mile brick tunnel, opened, incorporating the old bathhouse and “ communal exercise” “good place to calm and re-center myself” Vegan Soul Fest in August draws people from up Champion Overcup Oak, stands west of the it was put into service in 1888. The City extended historic pavilion into a multi-faceted neighborhood & down the East Coast to sample vegan food, see Mansion. Learn more from the Tree Baltimore its boundaries and annexed the area that year. recreation center. “ watching waterfowl” cooking demos, learn of health practices. Story Map: treebaltimore.org/maps vegansoulfest.com 1895-1960 2018-2019 herring Run Park “deer, fox, beavers, birds, heron and owl sightings” The Mansion South Lawn is newly planted with Baltimore Park Commission acquired the build- Mansion stairwell and parlor restored to Hopkins-era “ meeting neighbors at playgrounds” “misty mornings!” “park clean-ups” Tower Lighting at Clifton Mansion in December historic specimen trees, labeled to create a mini- ings and grounds to be used for the recreation splendor, south lawn replanted in historic style. City- includes community ceremony and thematically- arboretum, with benches along the half-circle and benefit of the expanding city. > renovated Tennis Courts reopen. “ the variety of paths & trails” “soccer” “hikes with the dogs” decorated trees civicworks.com/events lawn walkway.