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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.

If all goes according to one organization's plan, the Patapsco River Valley will become the 13th certified heritage area in Maryland.

Controversial plan to develop Hampden townhouses on site of former home for unwed mothers goes before Baltimore City zoning board. Neighbors and City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke oppose developer John Brooks' proposal.

A developer has put forward plans to build an assisted living center on the 10.5-acre lot next door to Whites Hall, a brick home where the founder of the Baltimore university and hospital was born in 1795.

Royal Farms is appealing a decision by Annapolis officials that put a halt to the store's plans move into a historic building at downtown's City Dock.

The Baltimore County School Board's plan to turn Catonsville's community center located at 106 Bloomsbury Avenue into an elementary school has left residents wondering if they will still have a community center.

Aberdeen's long-dilapidated historic train station might finally be moving forward with a new foundation, the Historical Society of Harford County said.

Sheppard Pratt on Wednesday unveiled its newly restored historic gatehouse, which since the 1860s served as the primary entranceway to the psychiatric hospital and which will now function after a 15-month, $1.5 million renovation, as a guesthouse for visiting staff and lecturers.

Dolores B. Scott, a retired educator and librarian who taught in city public schools for three decades, died Nov. Nov. 19 of Alzheimer's disease at Chaparral Winds Hospice in Sun City West, Ariz. The former longtime Randallstown resident was 86.

As the sun set over Ellicott City on a crisp autumn evening earlier this week, the volunteers stood outside Miller Library, clutching clipboards and calling out to passersby: "Would you like to help take zoning to the voters?"

Patapsco heritage Greenway will host a public forum 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30. The event, dubbed "Envision the Valley," will be held at St. Augustine School in Elkridge, and is a repeat of presentation of a consultant's final report given last week in Catonsville.

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Royal Farms is interested in opening a store in a vacant historic building at Annapolis City Dock, Annapolis planning officials confirmed.

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While the brick building, with windows missing or covered by plywood and Halloween decorum painted on its walls, isn't much to look at today, Taneytown officials envision the area as a potential economic driver if redeveloped properly.

Maryland Historical Trust unanimously votes to modify easement that prohibits new construction on the site of historic Crittenton property in Hampden.

The Maryland Historical Trust to hold a hearing June 6 — in Calvert County — on plans to redevelop historic site in Hampden. It's a statewide hearing on historical trust issue, so Sharon Price of Hampden and Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke will shlep two hours to get there.

The Maryland state government is buying a century-old post office in downtown Annapolis, with plans to expand it and use it for state offices.

Maryland officials agreed Wednesday to buy the historic Annapolis post office building from the U.S. Postal Service for use as part of the government complex surrounding the State House.

General contractor John Brooks has a contract to buy the Crittenton House, a historic property in Hampden, and says he wants to build 11 apartments and 19 townhouses on the site. But the Maryland Historical Trust would have to waive an easement that prohibits new construction, and area residents, backed by City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, are opposing the project.

The first major "adaptive reuse" project in the valley between Baltimore's Woodberry and Hampden communities was completed in the mid-1980s. Three decades later, only two major sites have not been redeveloped as housing, retail or office space.

Development proposals, both public and private, have fallen through over the years, and the island has been overrun by thousands of birds. But members of the family that owns Fort Carroll and they still have hopes for it.

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.

Perched on a wooded bluff in rural southeastern Carroll County, the old Henryton State Hospital bears silent witness to the ravages of decades of neglect and vandalism.

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