File:General view looking to 818 North Carrollton Avenue (note Lafayette Square Presbyterian Church, now St. John's AME Church, is to the left) - Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette HABS MD-1141-17.tif
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Rosenthal, James W., creator |
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General view looking to 818 North Carrollton Avenue (note Lafayette Square Presbyterian Church, now St. John's AME Church, is to the left) - Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lanvale and North Carrollton streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD |
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Lafayette Square Association; Mitchell, Parren J; Davis, Frank E; Dixon and Carson architects; Rosenthal, James W, photographer; Perschler, Martin J, project manager; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Perschler, Martin, project manager; Price, Virginia B, transmitter |
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Depicted place | Maryland; Independent City; Baltimore | ||||
Date | Documentation compiled after 1933; 2004 | ||||
Dimensions | 5 x 7 in. | ||||
Current location |
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
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HABS MD-1141-17 |
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For most of the houses on the Square, the three-story, three-bay, flat-roofed, red brick townhouse seems always to have been in fashion, though side yards, mansard roofs, and arch windows helped break the visual monotony of West Baltimore's highly regular and architecturally uniform residential streets. Moreover, the designs of the houses on the 1100 block of West Lafayette Avenue were dictated to a considerable degree by the Lafayette Square Association itself, which after 1865 inserted covenants in the land deeds that set the width of new residences at a minimum of twenty feet and the height at three stories. The Association also prohibited landowners from erecting slaughterhouses and other facilities that were likely to have a negative impact on the neighborhood. The houses at 1110, 1112, 1128 and 1130 West Lafayette (then called Townsend) and at 1103, 1105, 1111 and 1113 West Lanvale Street embody the Association's vision for the Square. Built on speculation in 1867 by the Association itself, the eight houses featured bracketed cornices, marble plinths, sills, and stoops, single-paned sash windows, and imposing bracketed frontispieces with double doors and semicircular transom lights (or fanlights, lunettes). Built after 1867, the three-story Italianate townhouse at 828 North Carrollton Avenue is one of few houses on the Square that occupies a prominent corner lot. It is best known and revered today as the home of Parren J. Mitchell, professor, scholar, Maryland's first African-American Congressman, and a founding member (in 1971) of the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington, DC. Ornamented with marble cladding, elaborate window hoods, and a massive bracketed cornice, this house rivaled the townhouses of Mount Vernon and Bolton Hill of the same period in its proportions and detailing while at same time meeting the Lafayette Square Association's requirements for residences. By the 1880s, alternative styles for houses had taken root on the Square, including the Romanesque and Queen Anne revivals, examples of which survive on the south side of the Square.
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1597.photos.573779p | ||||
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