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BROWNSTONE ROW

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1853–1854, Michael Roche, Louis L. Long. 18–28 E. Mount Vernon Pl.
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Photograph by James Rosenthal, HABS)

This row of six large, elegant houses is an example of both speculative housing intended for elite Baltimoreans and a superlative use of brownstone, then a popular material for high-end antebellum town houses within the city. Designed and begun by builder-contractor Roche, the row was ultimately completed by local architect Long. The interior room arrangement followed Baltimore convention to contain a ground-floor formal dining room with the other entertaining rooms above. Placing the dining room adjacent to the kitchen differed from the New York plan whereby double parlors and a formal dining room all occupied the principal story. Brownstone Row constituted some of the largest, most opulent houses then available in Baltimore.

References

Jacobs, James A. “18-28 Mount Vernon Place (Brownstone Row),” HABS No. MD-1176, Historic American Buildings Survey, 2004. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Timeline

  • 1853

    Built

What's Nearby

MOUNT VERNON PLACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
WASHINGTON MONUMENT (Baltimore)
PEABODY INSTITUTE
MOUNT VERNON PLACE
HACKERMAN HOUSE (THOMAS-JENCKS-GLADDING HOUSE)

Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "BROWNSTONE ROW", [Baltimore, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-BC8.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 157-158.

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