Bohemian Hall-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.

Bohemian Hall 942 N Broadway-Photo 61 NW corner Barnes and Broadway (Now United Baptist Church)

Germans moved into the new houses but by the 1870s were being replaced by just-arrived Bohemians, who stayed in this area until the turn of the century. One of the significant landmarks in the historic district is the still standing old Bohemian Hall, built in the early 1880s at the northwest corner of Barnes and Broadway, which served as a combination organ factory, social meeting hall, gymnastics parlor, and saloon. As new housing was built east of Broadway in the 1880s and 1890s, most of Baltimore's Bohemian community moved to this area, but still made use of the Hall on Broadway.

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: 942 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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