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Back Story: Seeking landmark status for valve house at Cross Keys
Passersby on Falls Road may catch a quick glimpse of what looks like a misplaced limestone mausoleum sitting atop a slight grassy berm in front of the Village of Cross Keys. What they're looking at is one of three surviving Greek Revival valve houses...
Tags: Roland Park
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No longer vacant, Baltimore home is where couple's heart is
Jamila Ward and Lionel Jennings had been house hunting on and off for two years when their agent pointed the couple in a new direction: a formerly condemned property in a revitalized area of Baltimore. Some city neighborhoods, just years ago marked by...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Rentals, Building Material, Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Wire (tv program)
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Vienna for gay travelers
VIENNA, March 29 -- Vienna's opulent Habsburg-era coffee houses, architecture, palaces, operas, and other cultural institutions give the city an air of imperial grandeur. Yet the Austrian capital with 1.7 million residents is not stuck in the past,...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Culture, Music, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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Guilford neighborhood marks 100th anniversary
On sparkling spring days, Ann Goldman Giroux enjoys tending her garden, planting vegetables and nurturing the lush roses and rare azaleas that adorn her family's home in Guilford. Giroux, who typically plants 800 white tulips along the front walkway and...
Tags: War of 1812, Queen Anne's County, Artscape, Annapolis, T. Rowe Price
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Former Turnbull house in Guilford on annual House and Garden Pilgrimage tour
For 32 years after noted artist Grace Turnbull died in 1976, the house that she built in Guilford in 1928 sat empty, except for a few erstwhile renters — and some squirrels in the roof. Then, in 2008, manufacturing executive Douglas Hamilton III...
Tags: St. Paul Street, Auction Service, Rentals, Catonsville, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Looking for ways to improve Inner Harbor
City leaders hope that by this time next year they'll have returned from Annapolis with funds to put toward making the Inner Harbor what its original designers intended it to be — "a playground for Baltimoreans." "The city has changed so much...
Tags: Fells Point, Donald C. Fry, Maryland Science Center, Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel, Harbor East
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Cool potential for former icehouse
As many times as I have stood on the MARC station platform in West Baltimore, I never considered there was a fantastic, Jules Verne-like interior just across Franklin Street. I assumed the fire-damaged brick building alongside the rail tracks was just...
Tags: Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail, Highway Transportation, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Under Armour Inc., Baltimore Red Line
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Dream home: Renovated home gathers family to the farm
When hearth and home — together with a growing family and an onsite family business — are at the center of day-to-day living, a small and dated one-story farmhouse in Ellicott City begins to burst at the seams. To keep their extended family...
Tags: Farms, Pumpkin, Land Price, Ellicott City, Home Improvement
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Homeland property is elegant link to past
Designed by the influential Baltimore architects Edward L. Palmer and William D. Lamdin in 1925 and built in 1928, the home at 101 Witherspoon Road is one of the premier properties in Homeland. This North Baltimore home is built of local stone with a...
Tags: Real Estate
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Orlando Ridout V, architectural historian
Orlando Ridout V, a historian of early Maryland buildings who explored crawl spaces and attics for their social and architectural details, died of pancreatic cancer complications April 6 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The lifelong Annapolis resident...
Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, Maryland Historical Trust, George Washington University, Queen Anne's County, St. Michaels
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Plans for Bel Air McDonald's refurbish tabled by planning panel
McDonald's is upgrading its restaurants around the country, including those in Harford County, but plans to refurbish the nearly 40-year-old establishment at the southwest corner of Route 1 (Baltimore Pike) and Route 24 in Bel Air have hit a snag....
Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Road Transportation, Highway Transportation, Route1 Incorporated, Hunt Valley
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