Old Salem Church and Cemetery

	Old Salem Church and Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Old Salem Church and Cemetery, December 2009
Location	701 Ingleside Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland
Coordinates	39°16′14″N 76°44′09″W / 39.27056°N 76.73583°W
Area	1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built	1849
Architect	Moessmeringer, Johann
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	77000683
Added to NRHP	December 13, 1977

Old Salem Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran Church and adjacent cemetery located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The main part of the 1849 Gothic Revival church building is a three bay, irregular stone structure approximately 28 feet wide and 42 feet long. It features a gable roof, a short boxy steeple, an entrance porch at the front and an apse at the rear. The interior features a gallery and organ loft has the original tracker organ, which is still hand pumped by a wooden lever on the north side of the case. From early on, the ground to the south of the church was laid out as a cemetery. The church was founded by German Lutheran immigrants.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Kenneth M. Short (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Old Salem Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

Old Salem Church and Cemetery at Find a Grave
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Old Salem Church and Cemetery, Baltimore County, including photo from 1997, at Maryland Historical Trust

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[mht_ihp-2] Kenneth M. Short (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Old Salem Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

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