Baltimore Block

Baltimore Block

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caption =
location= Atlanta, Georgia
lat_degrees = 33
lat_minutes = 46
lat_seconds = 6
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 84
long_minutes = 23
long_seconds = 16
long_direction = W
locmapin = USA Georgia
area =
built =1885
architect= Atlanta Land Improvement Co.
architecture= No Style Listed
added = June 03, 1976cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=76000622

:"This article is about an historic district in Atlanta. For the Baltimore red-light district, see The Block (Baltimore)."

Baltimore Block is a series of eight rowhouses in the Midtown dstrict of Atlanta, Georgia. Rowhouses of the kind that are abundant in Baltimore are an unusual housing type in Atlanta, where duplexes or semidetached housing such as shotgun houses were more common forms of high-density housing. Built in 1885 by Baltimore native Jacob J. Rosenthal, the houses were leased on long-term ground lease terms, common practice in Baltimore. By the 1920's the houses began to fall out of fashion, and four units were torn down while the others became derelict. A recovery behan in the 1930's, and in the 1960's the area became a center of counterculture. Extensive renovation took place during the 1980's, when the units were consolidated and converted to office use. [cite web|url=http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gahistmarkers baltimoreblockhistmarker.htm|date=2008-10-10|work= Georgia Historical Markers|title= Baltimore Block|publisher=Digital Library of Georgia]

Like many Baltimore houses, the brick three-story rowhouses of Baltimore Block present a unified wall-like front to the street with a continuous cornice line.

References

External links

* [http://www.atlantaga.gov/government/urbandesign_baltimoreblock.aspx Baltimore Block] , Atlanta Urban Design Commission
* [http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gahistmarkers/baltimoreblockhistmarker.htm Baltimore Block] , GeorgiaInfo


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