Enoch Pratt Library Branch No. 6-Old East Baltimore Historic District - Baltimore MD - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

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The Old East Baltimore Historic District is a mainly residential area of Baltimore City that grew up northward from the original mid-eighteenth century settlement east of the Jones Falls, known as Jones Town, or Old Town. The district comprises some seventy city blocks covering approximately 194 acres, generally bounded by the Jones Falls, Greenmount Cemetery, North Avenue, Broadway, and Eager Street. The southern blocks of the district are characterized by vernacular Greek Revival-style working class housing, constructed in the mid-1840s to mid-1850s for the large numbers of Irish and German immigrants settling there. The neighborhood did not begin to grow significantly until after the Civil War when it filled with three-story Italianate rowhouses and smaller, mid-block two-story houses built for these same immigrant groups who by then had established important, architect-designed Catholic churches and charitable institutions in the area.

Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch No. 6--818 N Broadway-Photo 62

Page 10-On the west side of N. Broadway, north of Madison Street, stands the Queen Anne-style branch No. 6 of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, designed by Charles Carson and built in 1888.

Name of Historic District (as listed on the NRHP): East Baltimore Historic District, Old Link to nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com page with the Historic District: [Web Link] Address: 818 N. Broadway, Baltimore MD 21213 How did you determine the building to be a contributing structure?: Narrative found on the internet (Link provided below) Optional link to narrative or database: [Web Link] NRHP Historic District Waymark (Optional): Not listed

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