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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: Harborplace, Donald C. Fry, Fells Point, Ayers Saint Gross, Annapolis
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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: Highway Transportation, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service, 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: Pumpkin, Ellicott City, Holidays, Land Price, 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: Painting, Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Queen Anne's County, George Washington University, Anne Arundel Medical Center
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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: Highway Transportation, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Hunt Valley, Transportation, Route1 Incorporated
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Renovations to Arbutus adult video store halted due to lack of permits
Renovations on the site at 5648 Southwestern Blvd. that had once housed Southwest Video and Adult Boutique have been brought to a halt as of April 8 after the county fined the owners for not having the required permits. "They failed to obtain permits...
Tags: Fines, Punishment, Halethorpe, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service, Annapolis
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UB prepares to open new Law Center
Like American jurisprudence, the University of Baltimore's new $114 million law school is complicated and thoughtful. Staircases bridge across and spiral through the 12-story building's vibrant atrium, connecting a labyrinth of classrooms and study...
Tags: Abell Foundation, Highway Transportation, Teaching and Learning, Mount Royal, Colleges and Universities
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Back Story: Buildings are gone but not forgotten
Gregory J. Alexander and Paul Kelsey Williams have combed through photo archives, and the result of their labors is "Lost Baltimore," which is a painful reminder of notable buildings that fell victim, for the most part, to fire or urban renewal. They...
Tags: Baltimore Hotels, Edgar Allan Poe, Business, Dundalk, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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On Easter, Baltimore basilica is born again
On Aug, 24, 2011, the earthquake that jolted the East Coast from Georgia to Quebec rattled through the bricks, plaster and paint of one of Baltimore's architectural jewels, the Basilica of the Assumption, sending nearly 1,000 linear feet of cracks through...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Event Planning, Basilica of the Assumption, Employees, William E. Lori
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5 questions … for outgoing Broadmead CEO Rich Compton
Broadmead, a continuing-care retirement community in Hunt Valley, has "been so much than just a place to work," said retiring CEO Rich Compton. He has served as the company's leader for almost three decades. During that time, his parents came to live...
Tags: University of Maryland Baltimore County, Literature, Business, Physical Conditions, Hunt Valley
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Living on the bay and loving it
Driving the back roads that hug the periphery of Maryland's shoreline, there is no singular characteristic that defines the homes. The ones that date back to summer-only retreats are usually one-story clapboard structures with the give-away air...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Fiction, Nairobi (Kenya), Land Price, Peace Corps
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