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B-27 Federal Hill Survey District B-27 Federal Hill Survey District Architectural Survey File This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse- chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation such as photographs and maps. Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment. All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust. Last Updated: 03-10-2011 ' - •. t STATE: e -~1 ._: + Form 10-300 UNITED , ~ , T r . s DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR .. ·\ . • ;Dec. 1968) ti ON Al PARK SERVICE Maryland ' COUNTY: .. - - NATIONAL RcGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Baltimo re City. INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ' . ENT RY NUMOER I DATE (Type all entries - complete a pplicable sections) I ... ·.~ ~ . ... :.~:~ .. .... j 1<• '. f4Ji>.iE ·v ·:=:,: <=.;."·' ·: -..".'::<_,;_'··;: · .:· •·" ,--· ·: ·•· .. .... :o.v' . .. " .;_ ; ''· ' . .. " . ....,: : ' . COMMON: ·t Federal Hill Historic District AND/ QR HISTORIC ; Federal Hill Historic District : .... ... 12. ·.· LOCi\i'tON" .. ' . I J STREET ANO NUMBER : See attached (location map with boundaries) '"-i CITY OR TOWN: ' ' Baltimore City . - STATE CO DE jCOUNTY: CODE ' · I J. ! Maryland I 19 I Baltimore City 510 ' ' .--; .1 ;·:·: <:;:'. .. ·,:·/:: · ,:=:;_ _ _,,/"/::>' .''"',.\'·:.. "· -''(:';"' ·~·.):<':·~ ... =.. ;. '; . .; 1$: -~c:LASSJ.F.ftAt10N. ., : ': ·:c:;: /-y;:·· ""' :=;v.~ ::. ·r /-'.':-~. ,.. " '· CATEGORY •' ACCESSIBLE ~~"' V> OWNERSHIP STATUS '1 (Checll One) TO THE PUBLIC "., z ·~ District Q9 Bui lding 0 Pub.li e Kl Public Acquisition: Occupied ~ Yes: I 0 . Site 0 Structure 0 Privote ~ In Proce ss ~ Unoccupied 0 Restricted Qg Both Being Considered 0 Preservation work Unrestricted 0 t' •• ·1 Object 0 119 I t- In progress (?g No: 0 .. •·~1 f - .' u o r /If as Appr<>prlale) :·i, PRESENT USE (Check One ore ·-T :::. Agrlcu lturol 0 Government 0 Park 0 Transportation Q9 Comments 0 0:: Commercial i;J Industrial gg Private Residence Othe r (Speclty) .,.·~ 0 0 t- Educotlonol ~ Military ~ Reli-gious ~ Entertainment ~ Museum 0 Scientific 0 ., 1 V> ... ,, ~ l ~N '.OW~ER\di: _ P.RO.~i:~.1'.Y'> · ,·,<·;~~;.J.( >·i;~ '. ~:~~:?;~~~·~:·:.'"' 7.;-:::~;~t~·:~ :,.:_:r.:;:·~·.:>. ;. ..~~~-:~ ... /?:-. ·4f?.;;~·if'::;~··~:· -::.',-,·_..;. ;" -~'. ).:,;«,.. "d.: .£':' v_'.·:'.A. L " f}:{':~-:·): ';,! z . ' ·"· !:f "' ·.;! OWNERS NAME: ~ Multiple public and pri,vate, City of Baltimore ,:j w STREET AND NUMBER: . '. 'i.. w ...... .. · .. J V> CITY OR TOWN: I CODE ...."' J IsTA;;~ryland s: > .. Baltimore City I 19 Pl -1 .j' fTI -:;·~: ~;?'.::~ ~v.::t~~ ~ ~~·.:~~~~=;:. :~· ».'= :.:::·:i·==: '.: ;:'~::~. ' ·1·:j·:.:'.: :~~:. ·;~<· f-1 J f 5. }JiQC.AtJ O~ :oF.j .:E:GAL b.ESCRlP-TiON\;:·:··<·Y'?¥:\::;\•· .. ..:" ::;.r~ .:~; ·~;:t·J .. ~.= . .· ~ ~ COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF OEEDS, ETC: I-' PJ Baltimore City Court House - 6th Floor :::s STREET ANO NUMBER: p. West block of Calvert St. Between Fayette & Lexington Sts. • CITY OR TOWN; ' 'S TATE I CODE ot:x£ Baltimore City Maryland 119 1-'·P-><0 I cT~ APPROXIMATE ACREAGE 0 1" NOMINATED PROPERTY: t.:::: cT< 50 ... p : : ,:. :. .. , .. ,6. i<EP.~ES'EN 'rATiO'N' IN EXISTiNG SURVE'YS·i\i: ._,..._,. : ... > ·: '. ' ( . ..v;.~(.::: : ·.''' t-g.::;z- ..., : s TITLE OF SURVEY : 0 f-1 Maryland Register of historic sites and landmarks ro ,.. gg DATE OF SURVEY: 1q6q Federof · n Stole Co'unty 0 loco I 0 "'z DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RE.CO ROS: -1 ;u .,, < 0 Maryland Historical Trust ~ z r . STREET AND NUMBER: c z :c "O QI "' P. o. Box 1704 ' l'I c ;u CITY OR TOWN: I COO£ - - I'll"' .. 0 Annapolis 0 z 15 T~~~yl and I 19 '.I> r -i -< "' ?-· .. ":i • .·. '' • ' Form J0.3000 UNITED STATES DEPART.'.\F.'NT OF THE INTERIOR STATE •. (Dee. 1968) ~A Tl ON AL PARK SERVICE Maryland g-~1- .. NATIONAi GISTER OF HISTORIC P L AC ES COUNTY I Baltimore City INVENTORY· NOMINATION FO RM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER O.\TE (Continuation Sheet) (Nutnber all entrle11) F~deral Hill Historic District #6 . REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Information for 36 East Montgomery Street, Federal Hill Baltimore, Maryland, Code : 19/510 [36 Montgomery Street3 will be found in the following survey: Historic American Building Survey ~ .. l: '· ) 1964 .~. ... .,,. Library of Congress - ·····i "~ , . : Washington,. D. C. Code: 08 I :1, ·· r. ~ . f .; l •t {'- ·. '" ' .-· ' .'~ '- . ~ ,. : ' . ;~I ~. ! ·. ·~ ,. , - . __ ··· - - '-- -· ... ~ ~· - . !> . - ' :.. " :~ . \ •. I Dt:SCRIPTION f '· (Cli ocl< f:>nt>) . ( . ' CONDITION ,______ _,_E_x _ce_ll_en_t_O_ d QQ Foir 0 Det.. rior.:ited 0 Unexposed 0 (Check One) (Check One) INTEGRITY Altered 13;1 Unaltered 0 Move.d 0 Original Site Qg DESCRIBE THE PRESENT ANO O R IGINAL. (II known) PH.f!!:ICAl. A P;.>£,\AAN C E: An original 1752 wash drawing by John Moale at the Maryland Historica~ Society, Baltimore , Maryland, is the fi.rst known recorded view, from Federal Hill, of "Baltimore ToV'm." Other views show ca:ttle grazing on raw, steep, eroded, open land sloping to the wa ter. The property was first developed on the harbor at the end of the eighteenth century primarily as a commercial and industrial enterprise relating to the seafaring trades. On 'the Hill, i. " .f ••• on May 9 , 1797, David Porter notified the com­ r mercial port of Baltimore that his observatory rooms were I . - then ready ••• at an elevation of one hundred and fifty .. .'. feet above the tide ••• the signals that notify of approach­ l ing craft identifying the thousands of vessels that make Vl I up the commerce of this city. m ·.: ~ m i' In the early 1880 ' s the Signal Observatory was re­ t placed with an ornate mid-nineteenth-century tower and t. pavilion. The signal service was discontinued when the z i . ~ :observatory tower was felled in 1902 by high winds . The Vt t t pavilion existed until the 1950 ' s when it was razed for -t ' the construction of the present bandshell. :::0 f ' Beneath Federal Hill, from Hughes Street to Cross c Street, from the harbor on the east, to Camden Station on n ·-· the west , is a large complex of tunnels , caves, and storage -f rooms . Some are brick- vaulted and others are earthen. '· Most were formed from th~ excavation for clay and white 0 sand which began o~ Henry Street in ·1799. During the z Civil War the Union Army. rebuilt some of these tunnels for escape routes and for storage. They were rendered use­ Vt ' . less with explosive mines until the end of the nineteenth , . century. After the mines were removed the tunnels were used by breweries for beer storage and in the early .1· twentieth century were abandoned commercially. The city backfilled certain dangerous tunnel entrances due to cave­ d .,·1 ins. Federal Hill Park, an almost perfect square, is an elevated plateau, 82 feet above its base, 150 feet above tidewater, bounded by Hughes , Warren, Covington and John­ son Streets. The base covers 8! acres and the plateau surface measures 4! acres . The existing six-foot high stone. walls were constructed in 1881 on Hughes , Warren and Johnson Streets. In 1881, the historian, J. Thomas Scharf, described the slope angle as one and one half to one foot and " On the north side , Hughes Street .... tVlo slopes with a terrace between before the upper terrace is reached, which is four hundred feet long and twenty feet wide . •• the other [see Continuation Sheet] ~·· ..,,...... t - ---------__,,..- . .,. ·. -- .·- ----­ ~. .1 Form 10-3000 UNITED HATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE • • . J '(Dec. 1968) NA TrONAl. PARK SERVI CE Maryland COUNTY NATION. 1... REG ISTER OF· HISTORIC PLACES Baltimore City INVENTORY • NOMINA TION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY E:NTRY NUMaER OATE (Continuation Sheet) 'Federal Hill Historic District #7 . DESCRIPTION (continued) (page 2) sides will be similarly arranged •.• " The plateau today is divided into walk- ways landscaped with shrubs and flowers and has many specimens of large trees. The stone walls also remain. Baltimore City surrounds the Hill. Immediately north and to the east of the Hill is the harbor of Baltimore City .. which is deep enough to serve large cargo vessels. The ' . Baltimore Drydock Yards of the Bethlehem Steel Company occupy • l the length of the waterfront to the east of the Federal Hill i area. Several hundred early dwelling houses remain from the ! I .. ". eighteenth century and mid- nineteenth century. These were I. originally, and are still, occupied by merchants and seamen j ' associated with waterfront industries. Some examples of .:· these are: ~ ,•. 14 West Montgomery Street (c. l ate 18th century) An excellent exa.Iilple of a small townhouse. The architecturally im­ ....;:~· portant front door frame has been removed to the Baltimore i":· .. _~· .... Museum of Art , Baltimore, Maryland, for exhibit. A ., .. ~ . :..-. carved wood cornice remains with other woodwork and f trim. It has a brick belt course and water tabl.e of •·~,, early design. t.: ·;.' . ~ . , ' 118 East Montgomery Street (c. 1780) is considered the .... : .. earliest brick house in the area, structurally sound -. .. -· but in need of renovation • ~ '' 110 Montgomery Street (c. 1845) is a brick house l aid in ' . Flemish bond; has interior woodwork of the period. 105 East Montgomery Street (c. 1830) is a transition to1J1m­ -' . house, small in size with a Federal style, characterized ,. by the use of some Greek Revival motifs. Greek Revival ·•. style medallions are used at frequent intervals as orna­ ments on the window lintels. The dormer details are noteworthy. ,·~,. · ' An increasing number of the·se houses are being restored. -.. Examples are 413 Hamburg Street, 125 East Montgomery Street •.
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