Franklin Square Historic District (Baltimore, Maryland)


Franklin Square Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Franklin Square School
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Location	Bounded by Mulberry, N. Carey, W. Baltimore, and Monroe Sts., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates	39°17′29″N 76°38′36″W / 39.29139°N 76.64333°W / 39.29139; -76.64333
Area	95 acres (38 ha)
Built	1859 (1859)
Architect	Multiple
NRHP reference No.	82001585^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 10, 1982

Franklin Square Historic District is a national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a 19th-century rowhouse neighborhood developed along a strict grid street pattern. A one square block, two and a half acre public park, Franklin Square, is a focal point for the area and the most elaborate rowhousing surrounds the square. The district contains approximately 1,300 buildings of which approximately 1,250 contribute to the significance of the historic district.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Fred B. Shoken (December 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Franklin Square Historic District" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-04-01.

External links

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Franklin Square Historic District, Baltimore City, including photo from 1981, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the Franklin Square Historic District, Baltimore City, at Maryland Historical Trust
Friends of West Baltimore Squares Archived 2011-05-08 at the Wayback Machine
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-412, "Franklin Square (Twin Houses), 100 block North Calhoun Street, west side, Baltimore, Independent City, MD", 1 photo

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v t e Streets in Baltimore
North–south	Annapolis Road Art Museum Drive Bellona Avenue Broadway Calvert Street Carey Street Cathedral Street Caton Avenue Central Avenue Charles Street Cooks Lane Druid Hill Avenue Eutaw Street Falls Road Fallsway Fulton Avenue Garrison Boulevard Gay Street Greene Street Greenmount Avenue Greene Street Greenspring Avenue Guilford Avenue Greenmount Avenue Hanover Street Harford Road Hawkins Point Road Hillen Road Hilton Street/Hilton Parkway Highland Avenue Howard Street Key Highway Liberty Heights Avenue Light Street Loch Raven Boulevard Madison Street Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Maryland Avenue McCulloh Street Old Harford Road Paca Street Park Heights Avenue Paca Street Park Avenue Pennington Avenue Pennsylvania Avenue Perring Parkway Reisterstown Road Roland Avenue Russell Street St. Paul Street South Street The Alameda University Parkway Wabash Avenue Washington Street Washington Boulevard York Road
East–west	25th Street 28th Street 33rd Street 36th Street 41st Street Aliceanna Street Baltimore Street Biddle Street Boston Street Broening Highway Centre Street Chase Street Church Street Coldspring Lane–Moravia Road Conway Street Cross Country Boulevard Eager Street Eastern Avenue Erdman Avenue Fayette Street Fleet Street Forest Park Avenue Fort Avenue Franklin Street Frederick Avenue Gwynns Falls Parkway Lexington Street Lombard Street Monument Street Mt. Royal Avenue Mulberry Street North Avenue Northern Parkway Orleans Street Patapsco Avenue Pratt Street Preston Street Saratoga Street Sinclair Lane Smith Avenue Swann Drive Waterview Avenue Wilkens Avenue
Circles & squares	Battle Monument Square Franklin Square Johnston Square Lafayette Square McKeldin Square Mount Vernon Place National Katyń Memorial Circle Park Circle Saint Paul Place Union Square Walbrook Junction Washington Monument Circle War Memorial Plaza Wilkens Avenue Circle
Expressways	Baltimore Beltway (I-695) Baltimore–Washington Parkway Cal Ripken Way (I-395) Harbor Tunnel Thruway (I-895) Interstate 95 Jones Falls Expressway (I-83)

v t e Neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland
Northwest	Arlington Ashburton Auchentoroly Terrace Callaway-Garrison Cheswolde Dorchester Fallstaff Forest Park Garwyn Oaks Glen Greenspring Hanlon Longwood Howard Park Langston Hughes Levindale Liberty Square Mount Holly Park Heights Pimlico Reisterstown Station Television Hill
North	Abell Barclay Bellona-Gittings Better Waverly Cameron Village Charles Village Cedarcroft Chinquapin Park-Belvedere Cold Spring Cylburn Edgecomb Evergreen Glen Oaks Govans Guilford Hampden Harwood Hoes Heights Homeland Homewood Keswick Koreatown Lake Evesham Lake Walker Loyola-Notre Dame Medfield Mount Washington Oakenshawe The Orchards Pen Lucy Poplar Hill Radnor-Winston Remington Roland Park Sabina Mattefeldt Stone Hill Tuscany-Canterbury Village of Cross Keys Waverly Woodberry Wyman Park Wyndhurst
Northeast	Belair-Edison Beverly Hills Cedonia Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Frankford Gardenville Govans Hamilton Hills Hillen Lauraville Loch Raven Mayfield Mid-Govans Morgan Park Northwood Overlea Ramblewood Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston Taylor Heights Waltherson Wilson Park Woodbourne Heights
West	Bridgeview/Greenlawn Coppin Heights Edmondson Franklin Square Harlem Park Lexington Little Lithuania Midtown-Edmondson Mondawmin Mosher Penn-North Poppleton Rosemont Sandtown - Winchester Upton Walbrook West Baltimore Innovation District West Hills Westgate Windsor Hills
Downtown	Barre Circle Bolton Hill Bromo Arts District Business and Government District Cathedral Hill Charles Center Chinatown Inner Harbor Koreatown Madison Park Market Center Mount Vernon Otterbein Reservoir Hill Ridgely's Delight Seton Hill Station North Westside
East	Barclay Berea Broadway East Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello East Baltimore Midway East Monument Ellwood Park Four By Four Greenmount West Johnston Square Latrobe Homes Madison-Eastend McElderry Park Middle East Milton-Montford Old Town Oliver Orangeville Patterson Park South Clifton Park
Southwest	Beechfield Carrollton Ridge Dickeyville Franklintown Gwynn's Falls Hollins Market Irvington Morrell Park Oaklee Pigtown Saint Agnes Sowebo Ten Hills Union Square Violetville Wakefield Washington Village Yale Heights
South	Brooklyn Cherry Hill Curtis Bay Fairfield Federal Hill Harborview Hawkins Point Lakeland Locust Point Mount Winans Port Covington Pratt Monroe South Baltimore Wagner's Point Westport
Southeast	Baltimore Highlands Bayview Brewers Hill Butchers Hill Canton Dunbar-Broadway Fell's Point Graceland Park Greektown Harbor East Highlandtown Jonestown Joseph Lee Kresson Linwood Little Italy Patterson Park St. Helena Upper Fells Point Washington Hill
Public housing	Allendale Armistead Gardens Bel Park Towers Claremont Douglass Homes Ellerslie Homes Flaghouse Homes Govans Manor Homes Heritage Crossing Lafayette Court Latrobe Homes Mason Homes Lakeview Towers McCulloh Homes O'Donnell Heights Perkins Homes Pleasent View Gardens Poe Homes Primrose Place Somerset Courts
Parks	Carroll Park Clifton Park Cylburn Arboretum Druid Hill Park Federal Hill Park Fort McHenry Gwynns Falls Park Hanlon Park Herring Run Park Lake Roland Park Middle Branch Park Mount Pleasant Woods Park Leakin Park Patterson Park Riverside Park Sherwood Gardens Wyman Park

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