Mount Vernon District Improvement Association Records 1938-1992, MS. 2827

MOUNT VERNON DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION RECORDS, 1938-1992

MS. 2827

Maryland Historical Society

Baltimore MD 21201-4674

It was when Gordon failed to win a senate seat that he turned his energies toward preserving the Mount Vernon District. This was the area in which he was born, raised, and returned to live after marrying Winifred. During the 1930's, the couple lived in a renovated carriage house on Chase Street.

When Gordon helped to found the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association in 1938, he believed that he was committing himself for only twenty-five years. This was due to the equation of the Gordon Curve which materialized from his own observations. He believed that at the age of seventy years, most buildings were being torn down. Therefore, if when newly built, a house is worth 100% it must deteriorate at a rate of 1.5% a year, so that when it is seventy years old its real estate value is low enough to warrant demolition. If it survives this low point, its value rises rapidly and in thirty years when the building is 100 years old, it is worth 100% again. Thus, Douglas Gordon originally thought that the district was about seventy years old in the late 1930s and that he would only have to be involved in the protective association until others would preserve the district on their own initiative. However, he was mistaken. The Mount Vernon district needed his vigilance as much in 1986, when he died, as in 1938.

Over the years, the vision of the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association remained relatively the same. In a 1938 letter to solicit new members, Gordon, as acting secretary, stated that membership dues would be used to “reduce dirt, increase police protection, diminish noise, and to seek the many other advantages obtainable by joint action for the improvement of conditions and values in the district.” This mission stayed relatively constant. In a 1961 letter to solicit new membership, Gordon stated that the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association was dedicated to “raising real estate values by reserving

historic areas and maintaining residential and commercial standards through enforcement of zoning, liquor, health, and other laws.”

Douglas Gordon also had many other causes to which he was devoted. In addition to being manager of the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association, he was manager of the Contemporary Club, Inc. and the Alliance Francaise de Baltimore. The Contemporary Club annually scheduled two lectures by world figures for the benefit of its 125 members who wanted to be well informed on world events. The Alliance Francaise de Baltimore scheduled eight lectures a year on French cultural subjects. This collection contains the papers Douglas Gordon sent in an effort to keep each organization exempt from paying taxes after the Tax Reform Act of 1969 went into effect.

Gordon was president of [UNK] Art Society, inter. mittentty, from 1961(?), He also served as Vice-president to the national Alliance Francaise organization.

Douglas died on March 24, 1986. Clinton S. Larmore took over as acting president. He and Winnie, Douglas's wife, continued to operate the association until 1992 when Mr. Larmore donated these papers to the Maryland Historical Society. The association was successful in having a plaque mounted on the courtyard wall of the Engineering Society in Mount Vernon Place which recognizes Douglas Huntly Gordon's untiring efforts to preserve the beauty of Mount Vernon Place The plaque was dedicated on April 22, 1989.

More information on Douglas Gordon may be found in the September 18, 1977 of the Sunday Sun. A copy of which is in the Diehlman-Hayward File.

Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble was another founder of the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association and from 1938 to 1942 he served as its chairman. He resigned in 1942 because he had been called into active duty in the U.S. Medical Corps during World War II. After World War II, he returned to Baltimore and resumed an active role in the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association. It is interesting to note that a definite split in visioncan be detected between Douglas Gordon and Ridgeway Trimble as early as October 29, 1949. It is even more clearly evident in the correspondence from February 1958 to December 1960 concerning the Walters Art Gallery loan. It was because of this difference of opinion that Dr. Trimble resigned and totally disassociated himself from the association on December 6, 1960. He died on April 7, 1979.

Another founder of the association who figures prominently in this collection is Cornelia McQueen Gibbs (Mrs. Rufus M. Gibbs). Mrs. Gibbs used her writing talents in support of the association's urban renewal efforts from 1938 until her death on August 4, 1965. Many letters to the editor of Baltimore newspapers and the editor of Gardens, Houses and People are included in this collection.

G. Harvey Davis was another active executive member of the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association. He served on the board for many years as an officer and as a director. He was one of the earliest members and was clearly committed to urban renewal. In 1957, he bought the plot at 8 East Biddle Street and transformed it into a neighborhood garden (Evening Sun May 10, 1957). In a 1971 letter, Douglas Gordon truly regrets that G. Harvey Davis will be moving and therefore unable to continue to participate in the Association.

After Douglas Gordon's death, it was Clinton S. Larmore who took over as acting president. He served as secretary-treasurer from 1978 and as vice president and secretary-treasurer from 1980 until 1986. He was a member of the Association from 1966. The minutes from 1966 show that he was elected a director in that year. Although there appears to be no earlier references to him He may have been active before 1961. He wrote In Memorium: Douglas Huntly Gordon, which is probably a copy of the speech he read at the dedication of the plaque to Douglas Gordon which was mounted in the court yard of the Engineering Society on April 22, 1989.

A more complete list of active participants can be found among the annual and board meeting minutes. This biographical sketch highlights only those most visible in the correspondence.

Series I: Legal Papers, 1939-1987,

Box 1, 2, 3

This series includes resolutions of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, two files of material relating to the 1214 St. Paul Street zoning board hearing in 1947 and the highway traffic zoning board hearing in 1948, printed legal materials (ordinances, and court summaries), and Douglas H. Gordon's notes on various court cases. The provenance of the files on the Wardour apartment building case were preserved. Therefore, the papers are not in chronological order.

Series II: Financial Papers, 1940-1990,

Box 4, 5

This series consists of a daybook of receipts and disbursements, bills with attached correspondence from the daybook, corporate tax assessments for the Mount Vernon District Civic Association, Inc., the Mount Vernon District Improvement Association, Baltimore Opera Club, Inc., The Contemporary Club, Inc., and the Alliance Francaise de Baltimore. There are income tax exemption forms and correspondence for Mount Vernon District Improvement Association, a checking account ledger and papers from it, an account book of receipts, Treasurers reports and returned correspondence.

Series III: Meeting Minutes, 1944-1989,

Box 5

This series contains minutes from annual, board, and directors meetings as well as the 1962 Articles of Incorporation.

Series IV: Subject Files, 1940-1988,

Box 6, 7, 8

This series contains “Your Tax Dollar newsletter of the Commission on Government Efficiency and Economy, the Mount Royal Democratic Club newsletter, the Mount Vernon-Belvedere Improvement Association newsletter, Report of the Maryland Historical Trust (can also be found interspersed with correspondence), 1952 Directory of Civic and Service Organizations, 1987 Community Association Directory, List of medical doctors in Mount Vernon and organizations in Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery clippings, erection of the Cardinal Gibbons Monument, Maryland General Hospital services, urban renewal, the City of Baltimore-Department of

Planning CBD III Study, Poems by Joseph E, Nutter (which give an unique view to the economic, social and political sentiment of the time. They illustrate anti-African-American, anti-semitic, and political corruption sentiment), Edgar J. Rumpf Jr. Memorial Award (given annually to the police officer who does the most to protect the Mount Vernon district).

Series V: 1 West Mt. Vernon Place Correspondence, 1953-1985,

Box 8

This series contains correspondence on the Thomas-Jencks-Gladding-Hackerman house. Some of the correspondence is with a Mrs. Robert Stevenson and some relate to furniture formally of the house.

Series VI: Correspondence, 1938-1992,

Boxes 9-21

The correspondence in this series includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence and is in descending chronological order. The dates on the files are approximate because the correspondence has been kept in its original order, which is how Douglas Gordon handed it to his secretary for filing. This means that at times the researcher will find correspondence spanning several years but all relating to the same topic. It appears that Douglas Gordon kept his own active files and when he closed them, the secretary filed them among the retired current correspondence making large back files of material.

There are numerous letters to mayors, senators, and delegates interspersed throughout the collection. They tend to address whatever problem the association was the champion of at the time. Topics including zoning (residential versus commercial), liquor licensing, signs and billboards, parking, and legal cases are found throughout every file.

BOX 1

Board of Municipal & Zoning Appeals

1939-84

1214 St. Paul Str.-Zoning Board Hearing

1947

Highway traffic-Zoning Board Hearing

1948

Printed Legal Materials

1942, 45

Cleland v. Mayor & City Council

1950-52

Martha W. Lloyd v. 1010 St. Paul Str.

1951

Guilmor v. Mayor & City Council

1953-55

Monument Street Case (George Reus Case)

1956

BOX 2

George Reus, Jr. v. Mayor & City Council

1958

Monument Street Case 1

1959-61

Monument Street Case 2

1960-62

Maryland Historical Soc v. Mayor &...

1958

Fair Lanes, Inc. v. Mayor & City Council

1961

Playboy Club

1961

Wardour Apartment Case

1962-63

BOX 3

Dampman v. Mayor & City Council

1962-63

Davis v. Maryland Historical Soc

1963

Park Avenue Case

1963

Kennerly, et al. v. Mayor & City...

1966-67

Printed Legal Materials

1962-63, 1987

BOX 4

Daybook of receipts & disbursements

1940-62

Bills with attached correspondence

1941-62

Financial Papers

1941-46

Corporate tax assessments

Mt Vernon District Civic Assn.

1951-88

Mt Vernon District Impv Assn

1963-90

Baltimore Opera Club, Inc.

1964-70

The Contemporary Club, Inc.

1964-71

Alliance Francaise DE Baltimore

1964-85

Income Tax Exemption forms & corresp.

1970-72

Checking account ledger & papers

1962-86

BOX 5

Account book of receipts

1959-62

Treasurers reports

1941-62

Retd correspondence & Treas. records

1963

Meeting minutes

1978-89

Meeting minutes & annual reports

1977-89, n.d.

Articles of Incorporation

1962

Annual Directors Meeting Minutes

1963-75

BOX 6

“Your Tax Dollar” newsletter

1957-75

Mt. Royal Democratic Club newsletter

1962-86

Mt Vernon-Belvedere Impv Assn Newsletter

1974-86

Report of the Maryland Historical Trust

1971-72

Directory of Civic & Service Organizations

1952

Community Association Directory

1987

List of medical doctors in Mt Vernon

1940

BOX 7

Walters Art Gallery Clippings

1957

Report of the Trustees of the Waiters

1957

Walters Art Gallery

1960-76

Cardinal Gibbons Monument

1965

Maryland General Hospital

1974-75

Urban renewal materials

1954-64

Dept of Planning CBD III Study

1967

BOX 8

Poems by Joseph E. Nutter

1957-65

Edgar J. Rumpf, Jr Memorial Award

1978-88, n.d.

Correspondence re: 1 W Mt Vernon Pl

1953-85, n.d.

Furniture, formally of 1 W Mt Vernon Pl

1975-76

** See note at the beginning of the container list on the correspondence section. **

BOX 9

Correspondence March 1938-January 1942

Answers to job advertisement

Anti-semitism

Bill 69-1941 to remove the height restriction on buildings surrounding the monument

Defense spending during World War II

Expenses of the state, 1920-1943

Filling stations, geographical placement

First meeting-June 8, 1938

Jacobs house

Jencks house

Journal of the City Council of Baltimore, 1939

“Legal Protection for Your Property from Negro Invasion”

National Assn of Housing Offices- Region 3 Conference

Noise pollution

Ordinance #4, 1398, 1399, 1400, 1394, 1395

Rat and garbage control, various talks on, Smoke control/air pollution

Record of first payers of dues

Rennert Hotel, sale of

Roster of Council of Civic Improvement Assn

Solicitation for first members/membership list

Street cleaning meeting-June 22, 1940

Sugar v. Church

Tax reduction

Traffic patterns are studied

Two hour parking ordinance in Mt Vernon

Walters Art Gallery

BOX 10

Correspondence

January 1942-April 1945

American Red Cross vehicle parking

Analysis of Franklin Str Freeway Route v. Patapsco Bridge Freeway Route

Baltimore-Washington Parkway proposal

Cost of Electricity

East-West Expressway

“Economics of Ugliness”

Edna L. McCullough, et al.

Elizabeth C. Gordon v. Board of Licensing Commissioners

Filling Station controversies

Filling station, geographical placement

Franklin expressway

Garbage collection, street cleaning alleys

Improvement of the area around the Armory

James G. McCann, et al.

Junior High School for schools # 49 & 79

Mayor Theodore McKeldin on the Franklin Expressway

Mid-city Expressway

Moses Freeway

Noise pollution and the Alcazar

Opposition against Negroes in Baltimore

Ordinance # 475 993, 1257, 1216, 696, 1020 4, 1296

Police needed in Mt Vernon area

Postwar plans for Expressways in Fifteen large cities

Railroad & trucking routes

Report & Recommendations on the Howard St. Extension around the 5th Regiment Armory Area

Report of the Mayors Commission for the Elimination of Smoke

Resolutions of Mt Vernon on the Franklin Expressway proposal

Rules & regulations of the Board of Liquor License Commissioners of Balto, City

Smoke Prevention Ordinance of Pittsburgh

Statement by Mr. Jacob Edelman on Freeways

Statement of Mt Vernon in opposition to the Moses plan

Statue of Robert E. Lee

Suggestions to make the central residential area more attractive

The Baltimore Traffic Situation by Howard Bennett

Urban housing during World War II

Urban renewal

Vandalism

Washington Monument illumination suspended for the duration of World War II (Nov/Dec, 1942)

BOX 11

Correspondence

April 1945-December 1947

Appropriation funds for the highway

Baltimore Transit Plan

City Planning & the Standard Oil Co

Constitution of the Allied Civic Impv & Protective Assn of Balto.

Correspondence in favor of the tunnel

Douglas Gordon's notes on the freeway plans

Douglas H. Gordon v. Mayor & City Council

Dues

Dues 1947, list of paid and unpaid

Fountains in Mt Vernon Place

Friendship airport

Grace & St Peter's Church, Horace L. Varian, Warden

House Bill #477 to amend the Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Law

“Is the Downtown Shopping Area Doomed?” by John A. Miller

Members of the City Council of Baltimore 1947-51

Memorandum for Herbert M. Brune, Esq.

Noise pollution: the Alcazar

Ordinance 520, 450, 1101, 252

Report of the MD Roadside Council

Report of United Citizens Committee on Traffic & Related Problems

Ritchie Highway

“Roadside Realities” by Newton Aikan, Esq.

Smith Freeway Plan

Smith highway plan

Smoke pollution

“Strikes Against the Public” script of radio speech by Herbert M. Brune

The Freeway Project Committee

Traffic congestion in the city: the change from trollies to buses

United Citizens Committee on Traffic & Related Problems, re: mid-city expressway, statement to City Council with respect to expressways & belt line connections Nov, 1946

BOX 12

Correspondence

November 1947-January 1950

Bill # 26 on roads

Board of Natural Resources on roadside development

Howard Baetjer v. Mayor & City Council

Meeting of various Mt Vernon institutions to set common goals

Membership list 1949

Mt. Vernon Dist Impv. Assoc.'s activities over the last eleven years

Neal R. Millison etal. v. Mayor & City Council

Noise pollution: the Alcazar

Ordinance 127, 368, 1719

Plans to build the Fallsway (Jones Falls Expressway)

Pro expressway pamphlet

Problems in Mt Vernon Place

Public Housing projects (slums)

Robert W. Wood, etal. v. Paul A. Cohen

Speech of Hon. Ralph W. Gwinn on public housing

Stafford Hotel

Ten years of the Mt Vernon Dist. Impv. Assoc.

Text to slideshow: “Protecting our Highways from the Roadside Blight”

Traffic congestion in the city: one way streets, bus service, trucks

Truck Route committee recommendations

Urgent problems relating to the Mt Vernon bulletin

BOX 13

Correspondence

January 1950-December 1953

Air pollution from autos

Amendments to ordinance # 106

Bill # 436 (traffic), # 50 & 17 (land), # 57

Christian Science Museum, article on decentralization

Crime in Mt Vernon, armed robbery

History of the Fifth Regiment Armory Plaza

Howard Baetjer, etal. v. Mayor & City...

Litter in Mt Vernon

Memorandum of conference with Mr. Holland & Mr. MCPO, February 1951

Ordinance 2017, 1802, 1834, 1772, 1595, 2305 2647, 799, 300, 604

Parking lot construction

Physical placement of filling stations and garages

Public housing (slums)

Radio broadcast on the expressway

Smoke pollution control

Street cleaning

Street width

Traffic congestion in the city: trucks, Washington Blvd

Triangle Sign Co. v. Mayor & City Council and Paul A. Cohen

Urban Land, February, 1950

BOX 14

Correspondence

December 1953-December 1957

Crime

Dumbarton house

East West Expressway

“Economics of Ugliness”

Jacobs house

Jencks House

John Marshall Butler correspondence

Jones Falls expressway

Journal of the City Council of Baltimore

Land dispute between Johns Hopkins Univ, Loyola & the City

Membership list, 1954

Mt Vernon Area Neighborhood Council, Articles of Association

National Trust for Historic Preservation, members

Ordinance 1902, 851, 1579, 851, 1950, 68, 67, 1760

Public health

Public housing (slums)

Radio commercials

Rat control

Report of activities 1955-1956

Report of the subcommittee on Urban Renewal

Sections of the Baltimore City Charter, 1949

St. Lawrence waterway

“The Rape of Negro Neighborhoods”

Traffic congestion: trucks

Tyson street

Urban revitalization

BOX 15

Correspondence

January 1958-May 1960

1956-57 activities of the Mt Vernon Dist Impv Assn

221-225 West Monument Street

Address by Albert M. Cole, U.S. Housing Administrator to the symposium on highways & metropolitan regions

Air pollution: smoke control

Baltimore as a wartime city

Bill 540, Waiters loan

Charles center presentation

Correspondence between the Commission of Traffic & Transit, Henry E. Barnes, & Herbert M. Brune

Donnelly Advertising Corp v. Mayor & City

East-West Freeway

Evergreen house

Greater Baltimore Committee: Report of the Highways subcommittee

Guide to Baltimore City Officials appointed by the Mayor

Guilder case, notes on

History of the Carroll Mansion

History of the Manse, First Presbyterian Church

Hotels

Jacobs house

Jencks house

Legislative directory of Maryland

Lyle W. Hardgrove v. Mayor & City Council

Membership list, 1958

Moses Freeway: Mt Vernon Dist Impv Assn in opposition of

Mt Vernon Area Neighborhood Council

Notes by Douglas Huntly Gordon

Notes on the First Annual Report of 1933

Ordinance 584, 1810, 924, 1266

Pertinent Financial Data, 1957

Public Housing (slums)

Recommendations of the Steamship Trade Assn of Baltimore, Inc.

Remarks of Douglas Gordon on TV

Reus v. Mayor & City Council

Sections of the Baltimore City Charter, 1949

“The East-West Radial and Its Relationship to the Total Environment”

Traffic congestion in the city

Traffic: Report on one way streets

Tyson Street, efforts to preserve

Urban Renewal's Mt Royal Project I

Walters Art Gallery

Wyman park

BOX 16

Correspondence

February 1961- April 1962

1010 St. Paul Street

Antiques Forum registrants

Biography of Douglas Gordon

Christmas program, 1960

Curfew Principal in Baltimore City

Height limitation on buildings surrounding Mt Vernon Place

House Bill 670, MD Historical Trust

“How to cope with Real Estate Pressure Tactics when a family of a racial group new to your neighborhood moves in”

Jencks house

Joseph E. Nutter, etal. v. Mayor & City Council, et al.

Mt Vernon Dist Impv Assoc questionnaire

Mt Vernon Dist Impv Assoc v. Maryland Historical Society

Ordinance #3, 396, 397, 1271, 978, 1460

Peabody's campus plan

Pertinent Financial Data, 1961

Pertinent Financial Data, 1962

Playboy Clubs, International

Police protection

Position of the Mt Royal Impv Assoc on Renewal Project I

Proposed apt house on East Mt Vernon Place

Radio editorial

Redistricting in the city

Social Responsibilities of the business community

The Wardour, housing for the elderly

Walters Art Gallery

Washington Monument

William J. Murray, III, et al. v. John N. Curlett

BOX 17

Correspondence

May 1962-February 1964

200 block of West Monument Str

200 West Monument Str-statement of Douglas Gordon

701 St Paul-Gittings House

Architectural preservation of 19th Century Baltimore Buildings

Baltimore's Bayre Bronzes, Statues in Mt Vernon Place

BURHA- Baltimore Urban Renewal & Housing Agency

Dampman v. Mayor & City Council

George Peabody's letter to his Trustees

Ordinance 2123, 2402, 333,

Peabody Institute

Playboy Clubs, International

Police protection

Public Housing (slums)

Renewal of Mt Vernon

Second Wardour Case

Study of Teachers Salaries & Related Problems in Baltimore City

The Wardour

Tourism

Urban Renewal

Walters Art Gallery

Wardour 2

WBAL radio

BOX 18

Correspondence

April 1964-June 1967

200 block West Monument Street

Baltimore Planning Commission: Expressway & CBD III

BURHA

CBD III Study: City of Baltimore, Dept of Planning

Commission on Historic and Architectural Preservation

Crime & Police protection

East West Highway

Engineering Council of Maryland, pamphlet

Expressway committee

Gittings House

H.L. Mencken House

“Hippies”

Historic Boston, Inc.

Historic Zoning Commission

House Bill #857

Jones Falls Expressway

Landmark preservation

Maryland Historical Society

Membership on the Historical Survey of Historic Sites & Buildings

Monumental City Committee, 150th Anniversary

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Noise pollution

Northwest Connector Highway

Ordinance 1677, 1822

Parking meters

Parks

Pertinent Financial Data, 1965

Plan for People

Playboy Clubs, International

Police protection in Mt Vernon

Public Housing (slums)

Renewal Plan for Mt Vernon

Second Urban Renewal Contract

The Maryland Institute, College of Art

Urban Renewal Article by Jim Lucier

Walters Art Gallery

Washington Monument

Washington Monument & Battle Monument-cornerstone laying

Women's Civic League News

Wye Institute Pamphlet

BOX 19

Correspondence

June 1967-June 1973

Architectural preservation

Baltimore Washington Parkway

CBD III Study

Curfew in Mt Vernon

Cylburn Mansion

Demolition of Court of Appeals Building in Annapolis

Douglas Gordon on the three organizations he's managed (11-22-71)

Flower Mart

Focus- the newsletter of the Regional Planning Council

G. Harvey Davis (treasurer) is moving (12-6-71)

Height restrictions on buildings

Highway regulations

Historic Fells Point and Federal Hill Fund, Inc.

Homosexuals in the Mt Vernon Area

Jacobs (Garrett) house

John Eager Howard Statue- vandalism

Jones Falls Expressway

Loitering and vandalism in the parks

Maryland General Hospital expansion

Membership list 1970-73

Mt Vernon submitted to be on the register of historic places

Municipal Art Society interest in “Boy with Turtle” statue (12-16-70)

Ordinance 939, 789

Preservation of Waterloo Terrace or Row

Property tax rate

Proposed move of the “Block” to the Mt Vernon area

Residential Narcotics Addict Treatment Center

Trash

Trash receptacles

Urban renewal

Walters Art Gallery

Women voters & holders of public office

BOX 20

Correspondence

July 1973-May 1983

Alcazar

Architectural Preservation

Baltimore Beautiful, Inc.

Belvedere

Bill 1691

Citizens for Crime Control

Commission on Historic and Architectural Preservation: Constitution

“Common Cause” a group against government corruption

Copies of requests to CHAP

Dues

East West Expressway

Federal Court House

Hampton Mansion

Historic Markers Program

Historical American Buildings Survey

Housing for the Elderly

Jones Falls Expressway

Loyola College's new science (Donnelly) building

Membership list, 1977

“Mental Health Status of Blacks” by Alvin F. Poussaint

Neighborhood Incentive Program

Neighborhood report

Neighborhood Statistics Program

North Corridor Transit Study

Painted fire hydrants for Bicentennial

Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities

Status of Power Plant Sitings on the Chesapeake Bay

The Gordon Curve

Urban Renewal

Vandalism

Visitation School

Washington Monument

Washington Monument

Wyman Park

BOX 21

Correspondence

May 1983-February 1992

Air pollution

Artscape

Beautiful Baltimore

Commission on Historic and Architectural Preservation

Douglas Huntly Gordon Fund & Plaque

Dues

Education

Equitable Trust Building

Gas stations

Glee B. Larmore: funeral remarks

In Memorium: D. H. Gordon by Clinton Larmore

Jencks house

Jones Falls Expressway renovation

Leadership workshops

Maryland General Hospital renovation

Maryland volunteer lawyers service

Mt Vernon-Belvedere Impv Assoc

Neighborhood clean-up

Neighbors against the Busway

New Stadium

Papers for the dissolution of the Mt Vernon Dist Impv Assoc

Prostitution

Public Housing

School #49 reminiscences

“Shape up Baltimore” campaign

Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities

Tower Center Apartments

Traffic & overweight vehicles

Walters Art Gallery

Walters/Jencks house purchase

Watergate

BOX 22: Binder

Interstate 83 Environmental Impact Statement 1982

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Folder 1

Blueprints found among correspondence March 1939-May 1940

Armory area

Sherwood Hotel sign

Sheets no.s 45-55, 46, 46-56

Ward 11, Section 3, Block 442

Ward 15, Section 18, Block 3226A

Charles Center Plan

11th Ward 1938, 1955

Charles Street Elevation Plan

Block 479

Alterations to Sherwood Hotel

Redevelopment Area #12, Preliminary Land Use Plan

Suggested Treatment & Use of Property Adjacent to Howard & 5th Regiment Armory

East-West Expressway Recommended Plan

“Quiet Please” sign against noise pollution

Folder 2

Cram's Street Map, 1935

Stafford Hotel Sign, 1948

City of Baltimore, 1950

1010 St. Paul Apartment Floor Plans, c.1950

JFX Plan, 1951

Proposed New Entrance at 714 Park Avenue, 1955

Proposed Office Building, 1956

Balustrades on north & east sides of Mt. Vernon Place, 1964

South Square of Mt. Vernon Place, 1964

Mt. Vernon Area Preservation District, n.d.

Baltimore Arteries, n.d.

*Consult these newspapers for more information on issues the association championed.

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3-19-72

4-6-72 p.A12

9-7-76

1-31-77

2-8-77

11-19-77

11-29-77

8-12-79 p.D1

2-20-92

SUNDAY SUN MAGAZINE

2-8-59 p.8

8-21-60

8-29-60

10-18-64

THE EVENING SUN

5-20-47 p.40

11-7-47 p.38

7-30-47

8-1-47

11-6-47 p.10

10-8-48

4-12-49

8-23-49 p.19

11-17-49

1-23-50 p. 32

1-24-50

2-16-50

4-11-50

11-16-50

4-2-51 p.17

4-17-51 p.22

5-28-51

6-8-51

12-3-51

4-52

1-20-53

3-9-53

3-27-53

1-12-54 p.20

11-22-55

9-5-56

5-10-57

12-5-57

10-18-58 p.18

10-29-58

11-3-58 p.16

2-10-59

2-27-59

8-1-60

8-4-60 p.18

8-16-60 p.30

9-23-60 p.40

4-17-62 p.A15

6-12-62

10-17-62

4-29-63

THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN

11-20-49 p.16

6-9-57 p.23

3-23-58 p.14

5-25-58 p.E5

11-12-58

1-31-60 p.10m

7-24-60

10-29-60 p.2

6-25-61 p.1B

7-30-61 p.4E

1-28-62p.2D

NEWS-POST

1-27-47 p.13

2-8-49

7-12-49

11-7-49 p.21

11-29-49 p.17

3-13-50

3-24-50

4-8-50

4-17-50

2-18-53 p.31

2-19-53 p.14

9-23-53 p.32

1-1-55

1-15-57

9-18-57 p.33

10-23-57

6-28-58

10-11-58 p.7

11-5-58

12-27-58

5-15-59 p.36

6-15-59 p.A1

11-18-59 p.33

6-28-60p.2B, 14B

7-9-60

8-27-60

7-14-61

8-29-61

9-7-61 p.3A

9-21-61

9-27-61 p.1

9-29-61

1-23-62

1-26-62

4-12-62

NEWS AMERICAN

4-30-64 p.2B, 3C

9-13-70 p.B9

1-31-77

WASHINGTON POST

10-24-51 p.10B

2-21-54 p.9M

EVENING CAPITAL

6-18-65

10-2-51 p.4

NEW YORK TIMES

1-18-47

1-21-49 p.C39

4-9-49

2-2-51

2-25-51

3-18-51

4-17-51

5-26-51

8-18-51

9-13-51

9-14-51

12-8-61 p.39L

10-28-63 p.C30

3-4-65

7-4-65

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

5-18-58

2-19-61 p.8

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

10-9-55    

WALL STREET JOURNAL

2-3-61

11-3-61

W-TELEGRAM, NEW YORK CITY

1-20-50, air pollution

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

12-14-50 p.28