2010-2012 Oakington Street-Brick Hill Historic District - Baltimore MD
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Don.Morfe
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Brick Hill is significant for its association with the 19th century textile industry in the Jones Falls valley of Baltimore. It is an isolated enclave of well-preserved workers' houses which served the Woodberry Manufacturing Company's Meadow Mill.
Waymark Code: WM14M36
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 07/24/2021
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Also known as Woodberry Manufacturing Company Housing.
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
Brick Hill is significant for its association with the 19th century textile industry in the Jones Falls valley of Baltimore. Comprising an isolated enclave of well-preserved workers' houses which served the Woodberry Manufacturing Company's Meadow Mill, Brick Hill exemplifies the paternalistic system which characterized relations between management and labor in Baltimore's textile industry during the period when the Jones Falls valley mills produced between 70-90% of the nation's total output of cotton duck and related products.
Throughout its development from the mid-1840s to the peak of production in the last quarter of the 19th century, the Baltimore textile industry emphasized the "Rhode Island" system of organization, involving entire families in the labor force and providing numerous social amenities for workers, among them substantial housing at nominal cost.
The dwellings in Brick Hill, solidly-built masonry duplexes situated on lots large enough to accommodate a kitchen garden, typify the housing provided for workers during the industry's second phase of expansion in the 1870s.
The buildings are two roans deep, with side entrances in their longitudinal walls and lower gable-roofed back buildings extending to the rear. Sometimes a frame shed addition abuts the rear gable of the back building. The houses are set on fenced lots of about 1/10 acre; those on Seneca Street are set back very slightly from the street, their view of the Jones Falls valley dominated by the Mill's tower and belfry. Those on Oakington and Parkden front directly on the sidewalk.
Included is the district is 2010-2012 Oakington Street
Name of Historic District (as listed on the NRHP): Brick Hill Historic
Link to nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com page with the Historic District: [Web Link]
Address:
2010-2012 Oakington Street, Baltimore MD 21211
How did you determine the building to be a contributing structure?: Narrative found on the internet (Link provided below)
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NRHP Historic District Waymark (Optional): Not listed
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