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A sterling representation of Baltimore's architectural past is for sale in the north Baltimore County suburb of Lutherville-Timonium for $1.5 million.

A recent plein air paint-out held in the historic district of Ellicott City was not just a weekend event that came and went, because many of the resulting paintings are now on display in the exhibit "Paint It! Ellicott City" at the Howard County Arts Council.

Ernest L. Caldwell Jr., a retired senior city planner and urban designer who did early studies for what became Oriole Park at Camden Yards, died of complications of Parkinson's disease July 8. The Stoneleigh resident was 74.

More than a dozen community members attended the commission's meeting and voiced opposition to the school system's plan, saying the building's current use as a community center fits the neighborhood's needs.

The Savage Branch of the Howard County Public Library is once again set to become an open book after an extensive renovation designed to modernize the aging facility and highlight a science and technology theme.

Consultants to a group trying to revitalize York Road in the city tell a community meeting that parcels should be assembled for a major supermarket and talk about the possibility of cutting York Road down from two lanes each way to one each way to slow traffic and help merchants.

Entrepreneurial success does not occur overnight, but by working together to foster stronger relationships between industry and higher education, we will make Greater Baltimore an environment where entrepreneurship thrives, innovation is fostered and robust industry growth is assured.

Officials broke ground for new Chabad of Towson, an outreach center on Aigburth Road that will serve Jewish students and residents in Greater Towson.

Harford County's two largest school construction projects, the replacement of Youth's Benefit Elementary School in Fallston and a new Havre de Grace High and Middle School, are continuing to move forward with major contracts approved for both last week.

Owners of three Catonsville businesses and Arbutus Arts Festival honored

Baltimore Housing has launched a marketing campaign for a selected group of so called "eclectic" properties, in an effort to highlight the value hidden in the sea of roughly 1,000 vacants listed for sale.

Edwin "Ted" William Baker, who worked as a planner for the Rouse Co. in Columbia's formative years and pursued passions as varied as world travel and horseback riding, died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday. The Baltimore resident was 77.

Kurt Bluemel, a perennial nursery owner and plants man who was called the "Johnny Appleseed of ornamental grasses," died Wednesday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Baldwin resident was 81.

Ayers Saint Gross hosts 'Careers in Design' program for elementary school

Office workers at downtown courts say offices are filthy, make them sick

Calvin K. Kobsa, a semi-retired Baltimore architect who was the founder of Calvin Kern Kobsa and Associates, died May 10 of complications after brain surgery at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 86.

On Saturday, May 17, the Towson Library is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its grand opening on the corner of York Road and Chesapeake Avenue in May 1974. But the Towson Library was actually established 38 years prior when the Women's Club of Towson set up a library arranged in orange crates on the second floor of the Odd Fellows Hall at 511 York Road and began lending books on May 1, 1936.

Berlin, just outside Ocean City, opens up on to another world.

At Sunday's Art Outside event, local artists and crafters will gather at Druid Hill Park in a revival of sorts of the city's free al-fresco community art festivals of the 1950s and 1960s.

The Baltimore City Council introduced legislation May 12 to designate the $51 million Remington Row mixed-use project as a planned unit development.

On Gibson Island, where no two homes are alike, a magnificent 1960s modern house sits on 1.8 acres of wooded property at the highest point in the area, and is on the market for $1.29 million.

The Artists' Gallery exhibit "Birds, Beasts and Besides" is true to its intriguing title. Ken Beerbohm has small-scale, mixed medium sculptures depicting birds and animals; and Deborah Maklowski has colored pencil and gouache works on paper that essentially account for the "besides."

Howard County will purchase the iconic Columbia Flier building as a new headquarters for its Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship, County Executive Ken Ulman announced Thursday. According to the county, the purchase price for the Flier building was $2.8 million.

Guilford centennial celebration to end with benefit gala for Sherwood Gardens

New businesses are on the way for Clarksville's Conscious Corner. A potential restaurant and retail space will be joining the environment- and health-minded group of stores located on Clarksville Pike near Route 32, according to an architect involved in the project. Conscious Corner-owned businesses currently in the center include Great Sage vegetarian and vegan restaurant and Roots Market, a natural foods store.

Nicolas Jabko did little to improve upon activist Jean Hepner's restoration

Operators of the Winters Run Golf Club near Bel Air are looking to sell a portion of their property that could include a house which local historical researchers say may date back to pre-Revolutionary times.

William Voss Elder III, a retired Baltimore Museum of Art curator who assisted first lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1960s to bring antique furnishing to the White House, died of heart failure Thursday at Northwest Hospital Center. The Upperco resident was 82.

Preservationists and city hope to restore, draw visitors to structure built in 1828

Continued improvement to commercial revitalization districts the goal

According to a report published by the Trust, the developer plans to remove 31 of the 473 existing trees in the park, but will replace those trees with 200 new ones. The report also claims that 14 acres of the 16-acre phase one design, approximately 78 percent, will be forest, streams and lawn, and that only 22 percent of the space will be developed.

Approval of two apartment buildings and two parks by he city's urban design and architecture review panel is one of the first steps forward since ambitious plans to overhaul a 14-acre portion of the Poppleton neighborhood were announced almost a decade ago.

Designs for the next Inner Harbor skyscraper — a 43-story tower sheathed in reflective blue glass on the site of the former McCormick & Co. factory — met with praise Thursday at the first presentation to the city.

A fledgling nonprofit wants to transform the old Peale Museum into a hub celebrating Baltimore history and architecture with exhibits, a cafe, a lecture hall and office space.