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Mount Vernon District Improvement Association Records 1938-1992, MS. 2827
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MOUNT VERNON DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION RECORDS, 1938-1992
MS. 2827
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Biographical Notes
Douglas Huntly Gordon, son of Douglas Huntly Gordon Sr., was born on April 22, 1902 and lived with his family at 1009 North Charles Street. Gordon attended the Calvert School, the Gilman School, Harvard College and Harvard Law School. In 1929 he began a career in politics. He served on the Bureau of Legislative Reference in Annapolis was a delegate to the Maryland State Legislature in 1930, 1931, and 1933. During this time, Gordon also served as the secretary to the Board of Directors of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1931, he was appointed president of the college. Gordon resigned from his job as president of St. John's and campaigned for a seat in the Maryland State Senate in 1934. He married Winifred MacMillan Claude, the artist, in June of 1934.
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, intermittently, 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 vision can 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 Description
The Mount Vernon District Improvement Association Records consist of six major series: 1) Legal Papers, 2) Financial Papers, 3) Meeting Minutes, 4) Subject Files, 5) 1 West Mt. Vernon Place Correspondence, and 6) Correspondence. The papers in this collection range from 1938-1942.
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 a 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.
Container List
All correspondence contains information related to liquor licensing, signs/billboards, parking, zoning cases which involved a change in classification from commercial to residential, and various notes related to legal suits. These topics are not mentioned in the container list since they can be found throughout boxes 9-21. The researcher is also able to find listings for memos on Mount Vernon District Improvement Association activities for the year. These are noted throughout the correspondence part of the container list.
BOX 1
Board of Municipal; Zoning Appeals
1939-84
1214 St. Paul Street -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 Street
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 Improvement Association
1963-90
Baltimore Opera Club, Inc.
1964-70
The Contemporary Club, Inc.
1964-71
Alliance Francaise DE Baltimore
1964-85
Income Tax Exemption forms; correspondence
1970-72
Checking account ledger; papers
1962-86
BOX 5
Account book of receipts
1959-62
Treasurer’s reports
1941-62
Returned 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 Improvement Association 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 Street 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 Baltimore 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 Improvement Protective Assn of Baltimore
Correspondence in favor of the tunnel
Douglas Gordon's notes on the freeway plans
Douglas H. Gordon v. Mayor and City Council
Dues
Dues 1947, list of paid and unpaid
Fountains in Mt Vernon Place
Friendship airport
Grace and 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 and 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 trolleys to buses
United Citizens Committee on Traffic and Related Problems, re: mid-city expressway, statement to City Council with respect to expressways and 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 and City Council
Meeting of various Mt Vernon institutions to set common goals
Membership list 1949
Mt. Vernon District Improvement. Assoc.'s activities over the last eleven years
Neal R. Millison et al. v. Mayor and 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, et al. v. Paul A. Cohen
Speech of Hon. Ralph W. Gwinn on public housing
Stafford Hotel
Ten years of the Mt Vernon District Improvement 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 and 17 (land), # 57
Christian Science Museum, article on decentralization
Crime in Mt Vernon, armed robbery
History of the Fifth Regiment Armory Plaza
Howard Baetjer, et al. v. Mayor and City...
Litter in Mt Vernon
Memorandum of conference with Mr. Holland and 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 and 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 University, Loyola and 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 Improvement Assn
221-225 West Monument Street
Address by Albert M. Cole, U.S. Housing Administrator to the symposium on highways and metropolitan regions
Air pollution: smoke control
Baltimore as a wartime city
Bill 540, Waiters loan
Charles center presentation
Correspondence between the Commission of Traffic and Transit, Henry E. Barnes, and Herbert M. Brune
Donnelly Advertising Corp v. Mayor and 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 and City Council
Membership list, 1958
Moses Freeway: Mt Vernon Dist Improvement 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 Association of Baltimore, Inc.
Remarks of Douglas Gordon on TV
Reus v. Mayor and 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, et al. v. Mayor and City Council, et al.
Mt Vernon Dist Improvement Assoc questionnaire
Mt Vernon Dist Improvement 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 Improvement 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 Street
200 West Monument Street-statement of Douglas Gordon
701 St Paul-Gitting's House
Architectural preservation of 19th Century Baltimore Buildings
Baltimore's Bayre Bronzes, Statues in Mt Vernon Place
BURHA- Baltimore Urban Renewal and Housing Agency
Dampman v. Mayor and 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 and 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 and CBD III
BURHA
CBD III Study: City of Baltimore, Dept of Planning
Commission on Historic and Architectural Preservation
Crime and Police protection
East West Highway
Engineering Council of Maryland, pamphlet
Expressway committee
Gitting’s 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 Sittings 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 and Plaque
Dues
Education
Equitable Trust Building
Gas stations
Glee B. Larmore: funeral remarks
In Memoriam: D. H. Gordon by Clinton Larmore
Jencks house
Jones Falls Expressway renovation
Leadership workshops
Maryland General Hospital renovation
Maryland volunteer lawyer’s service
Mt Vernon-Belvedere Improvement Assoc
Neighborhood clean-up
Neighbors against the Busway
New Stadium
Papers for the dissolution of the Mt Vernon Dist Improvement Assoc
Prostitution
Public Housing
School #49 reminiscences
“Shape up Baltimore” campaign
Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities
Tower Center Apartments
Traffic and overweight vehicles
Walters Art Gallery
Walters/Jencks house purchase
Watergate
BOX 22: Binder
Interstate 83 Environmental Impact Statements, 1982
OVERSIZE
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 and Use of Property Adjacent to Howard and 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 and 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.
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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1-28-61 p.26
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2-7-62
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10-10-62
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11-11-62
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12-23-62
9-13-62
1-14-63
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1-19-63
1-23-63
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1-30-63
4-17-64 p.30
10-2-64
10-4-64
2-28-65 p.10
9-28-67
11-28-67 p.18
2-4-68
9-25-68
11-17-68
1-12-69 p.A26
8-23-70 p.K2
8-8-71
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
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3-27-53
1-12-54 p.20
11-22-55
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10-18-58 p.18
10-29-58
11-3-58 p.16
2-10-59
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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
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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
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4-17-51
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8-18-51
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12-8-61 p.39L
10-28-63 p.C30
3-4-65
7-4-65
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE
5-18-58
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NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
10-9-55
WALL STREET JOURNAL
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