<p>The Amasa Farrier House is a historic house at 55 Central Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1865, this two-story wood-frame house is a well-preserved Italianate villa, with pilastered corner boards and a nearly flat roof with a deep overhanging cornice studded with paired brackets. The house was built for Amasa Farrier, the town&#39;s surveyor and landscape designer.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and is a contributing resource to the 1990 Central Square Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Michael Foley Cottage is a historic house at 14 Emerson Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It is a remarkably well preserved instance of a worker&#39;s cottage, built c. 1855. It was occupied until the 1870s by Michael Foley, a shoemaker who may have worked at the nearby Tidd shoe factory. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a front-gable roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Its front facade has three narrow bays on the first floor and two on the second, with the entrance in the rightmost bay. Decorative woodwork is minimal.</p><br>
<p>The cottage was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Walter K. Foster House is a historic house at 57 Central Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1870, it is one of three surviving Italianate side hall entry houses in Stoneham. Notable features include paneled pilasters on the corners and ornate decorative brackets above them. The doorway is also topped by a heavy decorated hood. Walter Kittredge Foster was an inventor and owner of a pencil sharpener factory.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and included in the Central Square Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The William Griffin Fuller House is a historic house at 32 Franklin Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built c. 1850 for William Griffin Fuller, a real estate developer and trustee of the Stoneham Five Cent Savings Bank. Its features are transitional, including both Greek Revival and Italianate details. The five-bay facade and single-story porch are Greek Revival, and the bracketing in the eaves and gable ends is Italianate in style.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Gill House is a historic house at 76 Pleasant Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It is one of three well preserved Second Empire worker&#39;s cottages in Stoneham. It was built c. 1860 for Charles Gill, a shoemaker. The house as two stories, the upper one under a mansard roof, with single-window dormers topped by segmented-arches piercing the steeper roof line. The house follows a basic side hall plan, except there is a projecting ell to the right, with a porch in the crook of the ell.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Onslow Gilmore House is a historic house at 477 Main Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built about 1875, it is one of the few surviving Italianate houses of many that once lined Main Street south of Central Square. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Onslow Gilmore House stands on the west side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28), between Linden and Gerry Street. Just to its south stands the nearly identical Clara Buswell House. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with an L-shaped floorplan that includes a porch in the crook of the L. Although the house has been resided, it has retained some of its Italianate detailing on the porch and front bay window. The porch is supported by bracket square posts, with valance-like woodwork between them, and the front-facing polygonal bay window has a cornice decorated with paired brackets. Narrow round-arch windows, also a typical Italianate feature, are found in the gables, and the building retains its slate roof. The house lot also retains original stone curbing and posts at the sidewalk edges on both Main and Linden Streets.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Onslow Gilmore, a local businessman involved in real estate, insurance, and banking.</p><br>
<p>The Lorenzo D. Hawkins House is a historic house at 1 Cedar Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The property consists of a house and carriage house, both built c. 1870, that are among Stoneham&#39;s finest Second Empire buildings. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure with irregular massing. It has the classic mansard roof, an ornately decorated entry porch, heavily bracketed cornice, and round-arch windows in its dormers and front bay. The carriage house features a polychrome mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included in the Nobility Hill Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Hibbard Residence is a historic house at 5-7 Gerry Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States. It is one of a few well-preserved 19th-century double houses in Stoneham. The two-story wood-frame house was built c. 1850, and features double brackets along its cornice, pilastered corners, and a decorated porch covering the twin entrances in the center of the main facade. The house is typical of modest worker residences built at that time. Its only well-documented occupant, Benjamin Hibbard, was a carriage driver in the 1870s and 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Stoneham Public Library is the public library of Stoneham, Massachusetts. It is located at Main and Maple Streets.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The library was founded in 1859 by a committee of leading citizens, initially renting space near the intersection of Main Street and Montvale Avenue. In two years the library had accumulated nearly 1,500 volumes, most donated by older private library groups. As the library expanded its holdings over the following decades, it relocated several times to ever-larger spaces. By 1878 the collection had grown to over 5,000 volumes.</p><br>
<p>In 1903 the town was awarded a grant of $15,000 by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for the construction of a permanent library building. This resulted in the 1904 construction of the modest Classical Revival building that forms the heart of the library complex at Maple and Main Streets. As originally built, this was a single story building made of Roman brick, and capped by a hip roof. Its main entrance was slightly recessed in a square archway flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included as a contributing property to the Central Square Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The library&#39;s services, in addition to its circulating book collection, include access to online databases. The library is a member of the North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE), through which cardholders can access resources of other libraries in the region.</p><br>
<p>The Stoneham Firestation is a historic fire station at Central and Emerson Streets in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The two-story red brick Renaissance Revival building was built in 1916, and continues to serve as the town&#39;s central fire station. Its most prominent feature is its four-story hose drying tower, which is reminiscent of Italian Renaissance-era towers. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and included as a contributing property to the Central Square Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and setting</h2><br>
<p>The Stoneham Firestation is prominently located adjacent to Central Square at the heart of the town&#39;s central business district. It is an L-shaped brick and masonry structure, two stories in height, with a flat roof that is obscured from view by a low parapet. The building is Mediterranean in style, primarily because of the four-story Tuscan tower that towers over it. There are narrow windows in the tower at the third level, above which is an elaborately decorated cornice. The fourth stage is open, with arched openings on each side and square piers at the corners. This is topped by a shallow-pitch tile roof with a dentillated cornice.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1916, and continues to serve as the towns central fire station. It has three equipment bays at the front, with office space in the rear portion of the ell. The tower was a common feature of early 20th-century fire stations, which required space for hoses to dry. This building, designed by Lynn architect Penn Varney, is one of the towns finest Renaissance Revival buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Franklin B. Jenkins House is a historic house at 37 Chestnut Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1895, it is one of Stoneham&#39;s finest Queen Anne Victorian houses. The -story wood-frame house has an L shape, with a distinctive octagonal turret section at the crook of the L. A porch with turned posts and balusters wraps around the front and side to the turret section.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, where it is listed at 35 Chestnut Street. It was also included in the Nobility Hill Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Charlcote House, also known as the James Swan Frick House, is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a three-story brick detached Classical Revival dwelling built about 1914–1916 in the Guilford development. It is one of the two identified domestic buildings in Maryland designed by John Russell Pope .</p><br>
<p>Charlcote House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Evergreen on the Falls, also known as the Snyder-Carroll House, is an historic 19th century home overlooking the Jones Falls valley and located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, brick mansion in a rural version of the Victorian Italianate style. A serious fire in the early 1970s destroyed the furnishings and most of the interior. It was built about 1860 and was the home of the supervisor of the Mount Vernon Mills, Albert H. Carroll. It is headquarters of the Maryland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.</p><br>
<p>Evergreen on the Falls was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Gallagher Mansion and Outbuilding is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was originally built about 1854 as an Italianate villa, and was subsequently enlarged and embellished in the Second Empire style of the later mid century. It features walls built of local rough fieldstone and rubble and a mansard roof covered with decorative slate. The outbuilding is a two-story rectangular wood carriage house with a hip roof and cupola.</p><br>
<p>Gallagher Mansion and Outbuilding was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>James E. Hooper House is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a large Queen Anne style freestanding masonry structure, situated among the buildings of the Old Goucher College Buildings complex. It is a rectangular building with a steeply pitched gable roof, a small, two-story wing extending, and a -story bay window extension, with a small gable roof. There are two stories in the main section of the house, and two more stories in the gable. It is constructed of dark red bricks with terra cotta, brownstone, and granite trim. The exterior features a slate shingle roof, and a square oriel, three bays wide and one bay deep, made of wood, and painted green. The house was constructed in 1886 for James E. Hooper .</p><br>
<p>James E. Hooper House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 2001, the building was purchased by Morphius Development Consortium, who returned the exterior wood trim to its original green color and restored other various interior features, including multiple pocket doors and hand cut decorative wooden wall panels. In 2018 James Hooper LLC an entity formed by MO/DE a moniker for Matt Oppenheim Development purchased the property with the goal of establishing the property as a cultural hub and a place for small businesses to call their home.</p><br>
<h2>Fire</h2><br>
<p>Late at night on Saturday, September 17th, 2022, a fire erupted from the attic space of the building. The flames burned for nearly an hour before being extinguished by numerous trucks of firefighters. Two residentes of the adjacent 2300 N Calvert St apartment building called the Baltimore City Fire Department before the building&#39;s alarms went off, saving the lives of 3 occupants who were inside at the time. While the fire remained isolated to the attic in which it started, subsequent smoke and water severely damaged the remaining interior. Artists spaces were notably affected, with artists having brought their paintings out into the side lot to dry the day after. It is unclear at this time what caused the fire, but the building was producing significant smoke before the flames began to intensify. No injuries occurred. Immediately after the fire the reconstruction of the house by James Hooper LLC began.</p><br>
<p>Ruscombe is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a -story Italianate mansion with basement, constructed of fieldstone in 1866. It is a gable and hip roofed building. The main block of the building is 50 feet by 50 feet, with a gable-roofed L-shaped wing. It was designed by Baltimore architect Joseph F. Kemp, who is credited with the design of Camden Station.</p><br>
<p>Ruscombe was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Tivoli is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a random stone ashlar masonry structure built about 1855 and consisting of a three-story, symmetrical Italianate main block, with a contemporary two-story, T-shaped service wing. It contains the administrative and clinical offices, the infirmary, and dining hall of the Woodbourne Center, also known as Nexus-Woodbourne Family Healing, a mental health treatment center for adolescents. It was the summer residence of Enoch Pratt, who purchased the property in 1870 and died here in 1896. It was also a home of Charles S. Abell, one of the owners of the Baltimore Sun Papers and whose wife gave the property to Woodbourne in 1925.</p><br>
<p>Tivoli was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Samester Parkway Apartments is a historic apartment complex located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The 72-unit complex consists of two symmetrical detached wings, massed as stacked chevrons of six apartment buildings each, that face each other across a central courtyard. They are three-story, red brick, garden apartment structures. The complex was constructed in 1939 in the Art Deco style. It is an early example of Federal Housing Administration-financed garden apartments in Baltimore and is an excellent example of the American translation of European modern architectural style.</p><br>
<p>On May 28, 2004, 3 children were beheaded in the apartments.</p><br>
<p>Samester Parkway Apartments was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Lispenard–Rodman–Davenport House is a historic residence dating back to the early 18th century located on the Davenport Neck peninsula in New Rochelle, New York. The house is the oldest residential structure in New Rochelle. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1708 Antoine Lispenard bought from Jacob Leisler&#39;s son a half interest in the large peninsula, or "neck", jutting out from the mainland between New Rochelle Creek and Long Island Sound. Six years later he bought the other half. Across the inlet he built a dam and a tidal gristmill. Each incoming tide filled the millpond behind the dam, and then, as the tide ebbed, the water was released through a millrace to turn the mill wheel. Nearby the mill, on the neck itself, Lispenard built his home, a stone house of one-and-a-half stories, with the front eaves extending to form the roof of a wide porch.</p><br>
<p>In 1732 he sold his property to Joseph Rodman who later doubled the size of the house. By 1776 the house and Neck had passed to John R. Myers who owned it for the duration of the American Revolutionary War. During this brief period the house was used by the British as a hospital for their wounded soldiers.</p><br>
<p>In 1784 the property came into the possession of the Davenport family, and so is currently known as Davenport Neck. Generations of the Davenport family, and other owners after them made further changes to the house, so that the original structure built by Antoine Lispenard and Joseph Rodman is largely invisible. In the 1860s, the original roof was replaced by a modified mansard, topped by a cupola. Restoration by the late Louis Ferguson managed to reveal and preserve several elements of the original structure such as the hand-hewn beams of its frame and the lime mortar made from local oyster shells, used to cement its stone wall. Other features of the house include 20 in walls, 16 in pine floorboards and a 5+1/2 ft fireplace in the kitchen. Several Lispenard family grave-sites are also located on the property.</p><br>
<p>During the War of 1812, guards of the local militia were stationed in the neck to prevent a landing by the British fleet blockading the Sound. An incident erupted as the result of a relatively innocent encounter between an English landing party in search of fresh food and American sentries. Additional men were moved in and quartered in barns on the neck. The ensuing events, renowned locally as the Battle of Davenport&#39;s Neck, involved a false alarm that caused the entire militia to flee the area mistakenly believing they were under attack. In 1814, Newberry Davenport divided the neck between his two sons, Newberry Davenport, Sr. and Lawrence Davenport. Lawrence erected a house on his section in 1816, later known as Davenport Grange and the old Lispenard–Rodman House became the house of Newberry, Jr. This began a process whereby both branches of the family sold large plots of acreage to wealthy persons who established handsome homes and estates on the neck. About this time, Newberry Davenport, Jr. would have added the kitchen wing to the old house, continuing the stone fabric and gable roof of the main house. The grade level of the land around the house may have begun to be heightened at this time as access to the original basement kitchen was closed-off. There is no other evidence of the house changing significantly at this time. Newberry Dayenport, Jr. died in 1863, leaving his house and remaining estate to his two unmarried children, Lawrence Montgomery Davenport and Anna Davenport. Based on the financial successes of their predecessors, the later Davenports enjoyed a comfortable leisurely lifestyle, traveling to Europe, providing community services and participating in the sophisticated social circle that had enveloped around the prominent estates built in the neck. Lawrence M. Davenport had Alexander Jackson Davis design the neighboring San Souci. By 1865, he had sold it to Mrs. Anthony Walton White Evans, who hired Davis to design additions in 1871. The Davenports continued to sell property to the growing number of people searching for country seats on Long Island Sound.</p><br>
<p>Sometime after Newberry Davenport&#39;s demise the house was dramatically altered to conform to more of an estate taste with the addition of a gambrel-roofed second floor, porches and interior changes. The roof top ventilator was a functional part introducing the then modern idea of healthful living into the venerable structure. The principal (sound-side) rooms on the interior were embellished with new trim in a restrained manner. Windows were extended to floor level on the piazza and most sash were replaced with casements with an unusually configured muntin pattern. The rear and kitchen rooms remained essentially unaltered in the transformation. The property had been reduced in size to only a few acres as a result of the sale of waterfront lots immediately before the house to Adrian Iselin, a New York financier, and Clarksen N. Potter, former Congressman. The land level may have been further built up at this time and driveways rerouted.</p><br>
<p>When Anna Davenport died in 1913, Adrian Iselin&#39;s daughter Georgine acquired the property and lived there occasionally for the next thirty years. Colonial Revival style paneling and trim in the parlor and hall were added during her occupancy. With her residence, the house ceased to evolve and became a local historic relic.</p><br>
<h2>Site detail</h2><br>
<p>The house stands slightly in the western edge of what would have been the highest rise of ground of Davenport Neck, formerly known as Leislers or Le Comptes Neck. Long Island Sound, roughly 150 yards to the east, was one of its sea views. To the west, the Lispenard mill, built shortly after the house, stood at the end of what is now called Titus Mill Pond and still separates the neck from mainland. Half of this original pond was filled in, for the creation of athletic fields and a causeway across the Mill Pond in the early 1950s. The small promontory on which the house is sited may have been created with earthen fill in the nineteenth century. Lawns, distinguished by mature plantings, extend to the boundaries. Dry laid stone retaining walls create terraces west and south of the house. An early well house remains east of the house near an 1800s kitchen wing that contributes to the significance of the property. In 1968, a 1750s frame barn was moved from a neighboring Rodman family property to a site west of the house and has been adapted for use as a residence.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Lispenard–Rodman–Davenport House is architecturally significant as the physical manifestation of the two-hundred-year evolution of an important regional house form and a residence of three families prominent in the history of New Rochelle. At each of its three major architectural stages, the house embodies distinctive characteristics of its type, period and method of construction. The house evolved from a pioneer stone structure built by a Huguenot close to the end of the seventeenth century to a mid-eighteenth century southern New York Dutch vernacular farmhouse type, and finally to a Victorian period suburban country seat inspired by a romantic Picturesque taste. These stages of development reflect the changing lifestyles and design taste in New Rochelle as it grew from a coastal settlement to a maritime center and residential satellite of New York City and convey a sense of the area&#39;s history over two centuries.</p><br>
<p>Additional significance is derived from the association of occupants of the house with the history of Davenport Neck. The Lispenard family was part of the group of Huguenot refugees who established New Rochelle in the late seventeenth century. Antoine Lispenard, the builder of the initial house, was the son of an important emissary of the English colonial government. He erected a dam between Davenport Neck and the mainland and established the first grist mill in New Rochelle. The property was sold to Joseph Rodman, two of whose children had married into the Lispenard family. Rodman further developed the milling business and was a member of the growing Quaker community that was expanding along the Sound and contributing to the industrial and mercantile sophistication of the area. However, the occupants with the longest tenure and most dramatic impact on the property were the Davenports. Within the 129 years of their ownership, the farmhouse was completely transformed into an elegant country seat and the farm was subdivided into independent waterfront estates owned by Davenport descendants and others. The Davenports participated in local commerce and government and were agents in the change experienced in the growing nineteenth century community.</p><br>
<p>Hochschild, Kohn Belvedere and Hess Shoes is a national historic district consisting of a combined department store and shoe store building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It consists of the 45,000 ft&sup2; two-story plus basement, Hochschild, Kohn Belvedere department store  and 1948 Hess Shoes store across the street. The structures comprise the modern-style core of a commercial development at York Road and Belvedere Avenue. The department store features a rounded corner with a glazed curtain wall facing the prominent intersection.</p><br>
<p>Hochschild, Kohn Belvedere and Hess Shoes was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Schwartze Mansion is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States in the Irvington Community. It is a two-story, five bay brick Greek Revival building constructed in 1845. It features a flat roofline embellished with a deep modillioned cornice above a frieze decorated with recessed panels. Augustus Jacob Schwartze , a prominent founding investor in Baltimore&#39;s important early 19th century textile industry sold land to his brother-in-law, C. Irving Ditty. Augustus and Irving had met while captains of the Maryland Regiment F in the Civil War).</p><br>
<p>Augustuss father, Henry Schwartze (1795-1850) owned most of the land in Irvington. Henry was also father of Sophia L. Schwartze who became Dittys wife. In 1874, Irving purchased a large amount of this land, between Frederick Avenue and Old Frederick Road, from his mother-in-law, Sophia F. Schwartze. Irving had three dirt streets laid out, running north and south between the two turnpikes. He commissioned contractor A.S. Potter to build four houses on the avenue farthest west. Ditty named this street Augusta, after his eldest daughter. The other two streets today are Collins and Loudon. Ditty, his wife and five children lived at the Schwartze Mansion, also known as the Irving Mansion. After Ditty’s death in 1887, Sophia could no longer afford the expense of two homes (they also owned a three-story townhome in Baltimore), and the mansion was sold, in 1904, to the Marciano family. The mansion was in the Marciano family until 1972.</p><br>
<p>Irvington first appeared on a map in 1877.</p><br>
<p>Schwartze Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Sellers Mansion was a historic Victorian-era home located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was a large three-story Italianate / Second Empire style brick structure located on Lafayette Square in the Harlem Park neighborhood. It was the birthplace and primary residence of aviation pioneer Matthew Bacon Sellers Jr. until 1918, and the headquarters of the community initiative Operation CHAMP from 1967 to 1980. By the early 1990s, the mansion became vacant and was deteriorating. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2001, plans for restoration never came to fruition. It was demolished by the city in 2023, after an unexplained fire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was constructed in 1868 by Edward Davis as the principal residence for Matthew Bacon Sellers Sr. (1800–1880) and his second wife, Angelina (Anne) Leathers Lewis Sellers (1842–1913). Sellers was a former slave owner from Louisiana who sold his holdings and moved to Baltimore after the Civil War. In Baltimore he became President of the Northern Central Railway. In 1888, Sellers wife Angelina (now a widow) bought land once owned by her family near Grahn, Kentucky named "Blakemore" and used it as a country retreat while keeping Baltimore as her primary residence. Sellers Mansion was the birthplace and primary residence of aviation pioneer Matthew Bacon Sellers Jr. (1869–1932), the son of Sellers Sr. and Angelina Sellers. He lived in the mansion until 1918.</p><br>
<p>Harlem Park transitioned to a black neighborhood by the 1920s. By the late-1950&#39;s, the area was abandoned by the middle class who fled the city for the suburbs, and the mansion and its environs suffered along with an increasingly destitute West Baltimore.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Sellers (1874–1954), and Annabel Sellers (1879–1953), the younger children of Sellers Sr., lived their entire lives at the mansion, and were never professionally employed, living off of their substantial inheritance. In their later yearsfrom 1930 onwardthey became reclusive, rarely leaving the premises, having food brought in by helpful neighbors and taking occasional strolls in Lafayette Square. Despite their wealth they were virtually unknown in Baltimore social circles. They hoarded; according to a nephew, "the family never threw anything away". Annabel Sellers died in 1953 and Samuel Sellers followed less than a year later. Samuel was found in the house by a nephew, his body slumped in a chair clothed in a 20-year-old suit he wore consistently. The mansion was stocked with antiques, including stacks of Confederate money, and elaborate and costly European clothes, some never worn and in pristine condition. Bags of diamonds were found hidden in stacks of sheets. The house was sold at auction to speculators in March 1955 for $20,600, by the nephew, an eldest son of Sellers Jr.</p><br>
<p>After the auction, the mansion became the headquarters of the City Commission on Urban Renewal. In the late 1960s the home was threatened with demolition to make way for a parking lot for the St. James Terrace apartments. Other arrangements were made for parking and the mansion was restored and used as a community center. From 1967 to 1980, Operation CHAMP was run from the Sellers Mansion with three mobile units delivering games and playground equipment to neighborhoods across the city. These trucks took over city streets and turned them into pop-up playgrounds for a day. It was sponsored by Baltimore City Recreation and Parks with the support of federal funds. By the early 1990s, the mansion had become abandoned. Sellers Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. For a time, the property was owned by the St. James Episcopal Church, also on Lafayette Square. As of 2015, the mansion was owned by the nonprofit One House at a Time.</p><br>
<h3>Destruction</h3><br>
<p>Local developer Ernst Valery bought it out of receivership in late 2018 for $10,000, with the intention of converting it into 15 apartments for senior citizens. "We cleared the trash and fallen walls and stairs inside. We placed a temporary roof and completed an archeological dig," said Valery in 2019. He was publicly praised for his work to stabilize the deteriorating structure. however, a second larger fire in 2023 led to the mansion being demolished, on February 24, 2023. The structure was still standing, the walls were two-feet thick, but the city quickly tore it down while still smoking hot. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A pattern of abuse was noted by a local architect, "This just keeps on happening. A developer or builder makes a nice computer model and gets permission to build. Then, pfft, nothing happens. They just let the property rot for years, and then they say, Oh, gee, it has to be demolished!"</p><br>
<p>Lion Brothers Company Building  is a historic factory located at 875 Hollins St, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. It is a multi-level building that once housed the operations of the Lion Brothers embroidery company. The original building was constructed in 1885 and expanded several times over the subsequent 75 years. In 1958 the Lion Brothers moved their production facility to another location allowing Marcus & Farber and Globe Screen Printing to move in. The building has been vacant since 2002 and Cross Street Partners has plans to restore the building as a local innovation center.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lion Brothers Company was established in 1899, and originally located in a loft building at 109 South Charles Street. At first, the company produced a wide range of products including blouses, skirts, and sailor caps. It was one clothing factory among many in an extensive garment industry in the western portion of downtown. Their factory was destroyed in the 1904 Baltimore Fire, causing them to relocate to 875 Hollins St. At the time, the building was occupied by the John Cowan livery stable and hall. Cowan was an undertaker with a funeral home across the street at 1901 Hollins Street.</p><br>
<p>Lion Brothers purchased the livery building in 1911, roughly the same time that all operations were concentrated on Hollins Street and the company was no longer producing finished clothing, but instead specializing in embroidered emblems. The location of the company in the Poppleton area of West Baltimore was a departure from other garment related industries centered in the downtown area. This location had several advantages: (1) it was removed from the heavily built up downtown area that had suffered the devastating 1904 fire; (2) an ample working-class labor pool surrounded the factory; (3) it was close to the factory&#39;s owners’ residences located in the vicinity of Eutaw Place; and (4) the production of embroidered emblems and insignias was a distinct specialty that did not require immediate proximity to other garment-related businesses.</p><br>
<p>The need for uniforms in the World War I era helped spur the growth and expansion of this company. By 1920, the company had outgrown the original three story building. Instead of relocating, they expanded to the north, eventually occupying nearly the entire block. An article in the Baltimore Evening Sun of January 14, 1920 announced the construction of the 1920 building, which doubled the plant capacity. The expansion made it the largest embroidery factory south of New York. Lion Brothers also purchased four sixteen-ton Sauer power looms for the enlarged facility for $72,000, nearly three times the cost of the new building.</p><br>
<p>The prominent Baltimore architectural firm Smith & May designed the new building, which was built by the Price Construction Company at an estimated cost of $25,000 and was ready for occupancy in June 1920. The ground floor was used primarily for manufacturing equipment, while the upper floor was used for drafting and design, and hand embroidery, taking full advantage of the natural lighting provided by the large exterior windows and roof monitors.</p><br>
<p>Within the next thirty years, the factory expanded three times. In 1935, an addition along Hollins Street virtually duplicated the 1920 addition. The 1983 addition on Boyd Street was similar to the earlier additions, but lacked the ceramic block insignia ornamentation and expansive column spacing of the earlier building. In 1948, an office and warehouse addition departed form the earlier design. This addition was announced in the July 1948 edition of Baltimore Magazine.</p><br>
<p>In 1958, the company moved to a six-acre site in Owings Mills in Baltimore County. By that time, the company was the largest manufacturer of embroidered emblems in the world and employed 250 people, and remained under the ownership of the Lion family. After Lion Brothers moved to Owings Mills, the building sold in 1961 to Marcus & Farber, a clothing manufacturer. The painted signs on the chimney identify this firm. In 1978, the building was sold to Leon Zimmerman, owner of Globe Screen Printing. In 2002, Globe vacated the building and move to Woodlawn in Baltimore County.</p><br>
<p>Lion Brothers Company Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, Cross Street Partners in affiliation with the University of Maryland BioPark and Innovation District planned to redevelop the structure for office and institutional space. In 2017, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Intermedia and Digital Arts Graduate Program became one of the tenants of the complex.</p><br>
<p>Null House is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, three-bay wide dwelling of wood-frame construction that was built between 1782 and 1784. It is a rare specimen of the early wooden clapboard building. The façade features a one-story wooden Italianate storefront of later construction with large store windows and two entrances. Originally located at 1010 Hillen Street, to save the building from demolition, it was moved on September 28, 1980, to the present site, 300 feet northeast of its original location on the opposite side of Hillen Street.</p><br>
<p>Null House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Rowhouses at 303-327 East North Avenue is a group of historic rowhouses located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The row houses at 303-317 and 319-327 East North Avenue consists of two groups of brick Victorian row houses that rest on high masonry foundations and are four stories high which includes a mansard roof. These two groups of row houses are some of the most elaborately decorated rows that were constructed in Baltimore in the late 19th century outside of Mount Vernon.</p><br>
<p>Rowhouses at 303-327 East North Avenue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Hans Schuler Studio and Residence is a historic home and artist studio located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an eclectic brick building constructed in two stages. The studio is one story high with a recessed skylight, and was designed by Baltimore architect Howard Sill and constructed in 1906; the residence is two stories tall plus a high, steep mansard story which was added in 1912. It combines elements from various fashionable styles and incorporating as ornament the work of sculptor Hans Schuler , for whom the building was constructed. It currently houses The Schuler School of Fine Arts and The Schuler Gallery.</p><br>
<p>The Hans Schuler Studio and Residence was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The LeDoux/Healey House is located on Deer Hill Road in Cornwall on Hudson, New York, United States. It was built around 1890 for a daughter of Lyman Abbott who was a summer resident of the area. It is considered a good example of the Shingle style and was renovated and expanded by later owners. In 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The house is situated near the top of Deer Hill, a wooded area that is the highest point in the village. There are views to the Hudson River. It is a two-story hip-roofed shingle-sided frame building with polygonal and gabled dormer windows on its upper story. The west facade has a full-length stone veranda with shingled pillars, leading to an enclosed porch on the southern end. On the east, a small hipped roof overhangs an original Dutch door. Many original finishings and trim remain inside as well.</p><br>
<p>It was built around 1890 by the local firm of Mead and Taft as a summer residence during a time when Cornwall was becoming popular with New York City residents as a place to escape the heat in the summer. The architect is unknown. Its second owner greatly expanded it into its present form. Afterwards it became part of an estate. The carriage house renovated and expanded into a separate residence in 1972. It has remained a private house throughout its existence.</p><br>
<p>Clifton Park Valve House, also known as the Lake Clifton Gate House or Lake Clifton Valve House, is a historic building located in a northeast area known as Clifton Park of Baltimore, Maryland. It is a massive octagonal stone gatehouse featuring large Romanesque archways that alternate with Gothic style windows that once contained stained glass. It was constructed in 1887 by the Baltimore City Water Department. It also features a turret, atop an intricate tile roof supported by a complicated system of iron trusses.</p><br>
<p>Clifton Park Valve House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. In 2014, Preservation Maryland placed Clifton Park Valve House on its list of threatened historic properties.</p><br>
<p>Old Town Savings Bank, also known as Cala Brothers, is a historic loft building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a three-story loft structure designed by architect Frank E. Davis  and constructed in 1871. Both the street façades are cast iron, four bays wide on Gay Street and eight bays wide on Exeter Street. It is a Full Cast Iron Front building. It operated as a bank until about 1940, then housed a wholesale distributor of tobacco and confectionery.</p><br>
<p>Old Town Savings Bank was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>L. Greif and Bro., Inc. Manufactory is a historic factory building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a three-story brick and steel industrial building constructed about 1914–15. It features an expanse of multi-light steel windows, a metal cornice, and sawtooth monitors. It encompasses almost an entire city block and over 60,000 ft&sup2; of interior space. It served as a clothing factory for L. Greif & Bro., Inc., makers of the mens clothing brand, Griffin, and for a time the countrys second-largest men&#39;s clothing company. The company was sold to a national conglomerate in 1957.</p><br>
<p>L. Grief and Bro., Inc. Manufactory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Industrial Building is a historic factory building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a large seven story industrial-style structure built in 1912 and designed by Baltimore architect Theodore Wells Pietsch. It features an "E" plan, reinforced concrete and steel-frame construction, and large pivoted-sash windows. The front façade is characterized by a symmetrical window arrangement and a large 2-story, round-arched entranceway. It was scheduled for conversion to housing for the elderly during the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Industrial Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Bagby Furniture Company Building is a historic factory building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a four-story, U-shaped, brick factory building composed of three sections constructed between 1902 and 1907. Its exterior features segmental and jack arches above openings, a corbeled watertable, and a corbeled cornice. It housed the Bagby Furniture Company, which operated from 1879 to 1990.</p><br>
<p>Bagby Furniture Company Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Coca-Cola Baltimore Branch Factory is a historic factory complex located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was constructed from 1921 to 1948 and built principally to house Coca-Colas syrup-making operations. The complex is spread over a 9.4 acre site and includes a two-story brick syrup factory/sugar warehouse and an earlier two-story brick mattress factory  that Coca-Cola acquired and adapted in the 1930s. Completed in 1948, the complex housed syrup-making operations as well as the Coca-Cola Companys chemistry department.</p><br>
<p>Coca-Cola Baltimore Branch Factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Maryland White Lead Works is a historic lead paint factory complex located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a U-shaped industrial complex constructed about 1867. It consists of nine interconnected brick and wood-frame buildings, which vary in height from one to four stories, surrounding a yard. The complex includes the powerhouse, two production sheds, a manufactory loft with an office wing, and a service building. The Maryland White Lead Company occupied the site from 1867 to 1896, Baltimore&#39;s first and most substantial manufacturer of lead paints.</p><br>
<p>Maryland White Lead Works was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Sidney A. Hill House is a historic house at 31 Chestnut Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style Victorian wood-frame house was built c. 1895 for Sidney A. Hill, a partner in a shoe manufacturing business. The gables of the house feature Stick-style aprons and bands of cut shingles, and a porch that wraps around parts of the front and side of the house that features turned balusters and posts, and more Stick style detailing.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and included in the Nobility Hill Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The House at 269 Green Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Greek Revival cottage with unusual layout. Unlike most small Greek Revival houses, the roof slope faces front, and shelters a cutaway porch supported by square Tuscan columns. Built c. 1810, it has typical Greek Revival features, including corner pilasters and an entry framed by sidelight windows. Several houses of this type were built in Stoneham; this one is the best-preserved.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The House at 6 S. Marble Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is a rare early 19th century worker&#39;s house, and the only significant survivor of the early quarrying industry in Stoneham. It is a wood-frame house, two stories high, five bays wide and one room deep, with a side gable roof and a granite foundation. It has simple cornerboards and door and window trim. Houses like this were somewhat common on the early routes through the town, of which South Marble Street is a relatively undisturbed surviving fragment. This house was built about 1810.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>National Enameling and Stamping Company is a historic factory complex located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was constructed in 1887 to serve as the works of the Baltimore branch of the nation&#39;s largest tinware manufacturer, the National Enameling and Stamping Company . The densely packed complex fills an almost 5 acre site and consists of 17 interconnected buildings and one structure that vary in height from one to five stories. The complex was organized to house three primary functions in discrete sections: the manufacture of tinware, the manufacture of enameled and japanned wares, and storage, warehousing, and distribution. The plant ceased production of tinware and enameled wares in 1952.</p><br>
<p>NESCO owner George Worth Knapp lived nearby at the Hilton estate and dairy farm near Catonsville, Maryland purchased in 1917.</p><br>
<p>National Enameling and Stamping Company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The House at 114 Marble Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Gothic Victorian cottage, built c. 1850. It is a -story wood-frame house with a rear ell, sheathed in wooden clapboards. It has a front gable centered over the main entry, which features turned posts and balusters, and a Stick-style valance. Windows in the gable ends have pointed arches characteristic of the style. The front gable is decorated with vergeboard.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The House at 19 Tremont Street is the smallest extant 19th century worker&#39;s cottage in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1850, it is a stylistically vernacular single-story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. Its only significant decorative features is its entry, which has sidelight windows typical of the Greek Revival period. It is the best surviving example of what was once a row of worker cottages that lined Tremont Street.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Parker Metal Decoration Company Plant is a historic factory building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a steel-frame brick industrial building, ranging from one to three stories in height, and consists of five components built in stages between the first decade of the 20th century and the 1940s. The Parker Metal Decorating Company operated between 1921 and 1994.</p><br>
<p>Parker Metal Decoration Company Plant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The House at 107 William Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is a well-preserved early Greek Revival cottage. Built in the 1820s, it is a -story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. It has a projecting central entry and an ell on its east side, set on a brick foundation. The ell has a second entry, indicating it may have been used as a shop. The main entry has sidelights, and both entries have a narrow transom. It is one of a small number of surviving buildings of a larger cluster that once stood near the junction of William and Main Streets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The House at 391 Williams Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is one of the town&#39;s more elaborate early Greek Revival cottage. Built c. 1820, it is a -story five-bay wood-frame structure, with a single story rear ell. Its most prominent features are the front gable dormers, which appear to be original to the period, and its full-width front porch, which is probably an early 20th-century addition. Its windows have molded surrounds, and the main entrance is flanked by sidelight windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Procter and Gamble Baltimore Plant is a historic factory complex located at Locust Point in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a compact industrial complex built by the national corporation Procter & Gamble comprising five major three-story brick buildings spread over 10 acre. These major buildings are the Process Building , the Soap Chip Building , the Bar Soap Building , the Warehouse , and the Tide Building .</p><br>
<p>Procter & Gambles late 1920s decision to locate its second east coast soap manufacturing plant in Baltimore reflects the strengths of Baltimores industrial infrastructure in the early 20th century. Their choice of sites is particularly telling in light of Procter & Gamble&#39;s unique strengths as a corporation. Founded in 1837 as a family partnership, Procter & Gamble by the beginning of the 20th century had developed into a major USA corporation. Procter & Gamble pioneered practices such as radio and television advertising, application of technology developed by in-house laboratories, market research, brand-management systems, promotion from within the organization, employee profit-sharing, and rationalized production schedules. The company has long been known as an innovative, well-run entity that developed and refined methods that defined mid-20th century American corporate culture.</p><br>
<p>Material published in 1955 and 1964 provides an indication of the companys impact and operations. On the occasion of their 25th anniversary in 1955, Procter & Gamble placed an advertisement that touted the companys impact on Baltimore: Better Business! Most of the dollars that Ivory brings to Baltimore in P&G Payroll and plant-operating expenditures are quickly passed on to local business. Whenever possible Procter & Gamble buys the supplies and services it needs here in town. Better Jobs! Employees at Procter & Gamble are able to help make better jobs for others because they enjoy unusually steady jobs themselves -- are year- round customers for local businesses of all kinds. Procter & Gambles famous employment plan guarantees eligible employees 48 weeks work each year - - in addition to profit-sharing and pension benefits. Better Living!Tax money paid by P&G and other leading local industries benefits the entire community. It helps provide better schools and parks, greater fire and police protection.</p><br>
<p>By 1990, the Procter & Gamble Baltimore Plant was producing only soaps like Ivory and Camay, and synthetic liquid detergents like Joy, Dawn, and liquid Cascade. In 1993, Procter & Gamble set aside reserves to fund a major restructuring of the corporation, including plant consolidation. On January 13, 1994, they announced that the Baltimore Plant was one of four that would be closed.</p><br>
<p>Procter and Gamble Baltimore Plant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. Between 1999 and 2001, the plant was converted into an office complex called Tide Point. The largest tenant is the Under Armour corporate headquarters.</p><br>
<p>The John Jones House is a historic house at 1 Winthrop Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built in 1874, it is a well-preserved example of a house with classic, yet modest, Italianate features. The two-story wood-frame structure is finished in clapboards, with a side-gable roof and twin interior chimneys. It has a three-bay front facade, with bay windows flanking a center entry that is sheltered by a porch connected to the bay roofs. John Jones, the first owner, was a shoemaker.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas W. Jones House is a historic house at 34 Warren Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It is Stoneham&#39;s best preserved Second Empire house, preserving significant external details, and its carriage house. The two-story wood-frame house has a T shape, and features a bracketed porch and cornice, gable screens, paneled pilasters, and oriel windows. The house was built for Thomas W. Jones, who built the last major shoe factory in Stoneham.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Walter Keene House is a historic house located at 28 High Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame building was constructed c. 1900 and serves as an excellent local example of a transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival house. Its hip roof and front porch are typically Colonial Revival, while the left-side turret and turned posts and balusters exhibit Queen Anne characteristics. The house was built for Walter Keene, a local shoe salesman and banker who played a significant role in developing much of the surrounding area. Stoneham&#39;s Keene Street is named in his honor.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Metropolitan District Commission Pumping House is a historic water pumping station, adjacent to Spot Pond in the Middlesex Fells Reservation, on Woodland Road in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built in 1901 by the Metropolitan District Commission , it is one of Stoneham&#39;s finest examples of Renaissance Revival architecture. The building  was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and included in the Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Spot Pond was designated as the public water supply for Melrose, Malden, and Medford in 1870, with a dam at its southern end enlarging a natural body of water. In the 1890s it was made a centerpiece of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, and about 1900 its water supply function was taken over by the MDC. This Romanesque Revival building was designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and completed in 1901, as part of a general expansion of water service in the area, and was placed on the former summer estate of Charles Copeland. It is built of yellow brick with limestone trim. It has quoined corners, and features rusticated arched windows. It was extended with a side ell in 1923. In 1975 the building was extensively damaged by fire. Its tile roof and clerestory were lost, replaced by the present asphalt shingle hip roof.</p><br>
<p>When built, the building housed three steam-powered engines capable of pumping 90 million gallons per day; one of these machines was moved here from the Mystic Pumping Station in Somerville. These engines were replaced between the late 1920s and 1950s with large diesel engines. Spot Pond has been relegated to emergency service by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, successor to the MDC. The pumping station now delivers water to area communities from a covered tank elsewhere in the reservation.</p><br>
<p>The Spot Pond Archeological District is a historic archaeological site near Spot Pond in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It is located in the Virginia Woods section of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, a state park. The district encompasses sites along Spot Pond Brook that were mill sites dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. At its height, in the mid-19th century the Hayward Rubber Works was located in the area, giving it the name "Haywardville". One of the park&#39;s trails runs through the area, and a park pamphlet provide a self-guided tour joining the major remnants of the industries that once flourished there.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Equitable Gas Works is a historic gas works located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a U-shaped complex occupying an entire city block and consisting of five 1882-1883 Romanesque Revival painted brick buildings ranging from one to two stories in height and one 1947 office building adjacent to CSX tracks in Spring Gardens, an industrial precinct in South Baltimore, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The rectangular, 19 century buildings are set on semi-coursed stone foundations, and are topped with monitor and gable roofs. The buildings exhibit a recessed wall plane behind paired brick pilasters and corbelled brick cornices and oculus openings set within their gables. The Office is notable for its delicate wood louvered dormer with a sunburst- ornamented tympanum. The exposed structural system remains visible in the industrial buildings; historic finishes also survive in the office building. The architect for the building is not presently known.</p><br>
<p>The period of gas production in the complex extends from 1882 to 1901, when gas-related uses abandoned the site. Despite infill and alterations, Equitable Gas Works complex retains all of its original brick buildings and remains clearly recognizable as a purpose-built, 19 century gas manufactory. Both the form and massing of the buildings and the quality and character of surviving architectural fabric provide important evidence of the stature of the manufactured gas industry in the late 19 century.</p><br>
<p>Equitable Gas Works was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
