Baltimore 'hoods: Reservoir Hill featuring Mt Royal
Baltimore 'hoods: Reservoir Hill featuring Mt. Royal
Well, oh well. It has been a while since I posted a new photo tour of an exciting Baltimore neighborhood. This time we'll be strolling through the Reservoir Hill neighborhood with an emphasis on the tiny subsection known as the Mt. Royal Terrace Historic District. As usual, it's very interesting architecturally. And, as is often the case in Charm City, wealthy and impoverished alike live side-by-side. But on this crisp autumnal day, the brilliant late-eighteenth century architecture, built for the city's emerging white collar class, is on full display.
The boundaries are North Avenue (Rt 1) to the south, the James Falls Expressway (Rt 83) to the east, McCulloh Street to the west and Druid Park Lake Drive to the north.
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More architectural diversity than your average Baltimore neighborhood. Looks kind of DC-ish in the first half, and than almost West Philly-ish towards the end.
Simply awesome! Ive been wanting to do Reservoir Hill for forever!
It is, for me, the most fascinating of all Baltimore neighborhoods. Architecturally gorgeous. A location that's hard to beat in Baltimore. A rich history. Its just beautiful. With the recent license revocation of the Madison Park North apartment complex (you can see part of them in the photo with the sign that reads "Neighborhoods first, building a better baltimore", and they are to the right of the sign) by the city, where the majority of crime occurs in the neighborhood, many see it as an opportunity to reconnect it with Bolton Hill, and allow Res Hill reestablish itself. It's a neighborhood that's been considered up-and-coming for a very long time, but the problem is the homes are so large that the renovation costs are just so high, and the amenities, like a grocery store, are not close enough, although they are slowly filling in. The neighborhood used to have a small commercial strip apparently, but no longer exists. There's a ridiculous amount of potential in the neighborhood, and i want so badly to see it thriving again.
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