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History of Allendale
Allendale, bounded by Hilton. Monastery, Caton, Mt. Holly Street, and Edmondson, slopes downward toward the Gwynn's Falls Parkway which it borders. Mostly blocks of row homes, it contains two schools, one church, one senior citizens apartment complex and scattered shops. Its high ground, accessible to the city along country road ( Dorsey's Lane, today Caton Avenue), attracted city merchants who located spreading estates here. "Allendale," the property of William Heald north of Cathedral Cemetery, being the largest. John Marr and Louis Zaiser owner land east of Heald's property.
Blocks north of Mulberry developed with Edmondson, many made up of daylight homes also built by Keelty. Row houses were put on 3300 and 3400 Edmondson and on 300 and 400 Hilton in the 1910s and 1920s. Keelty kept a real-estate office on Edmondson Avenue in the 1920s, close to the American Legion Hall and Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club. Mary E. Rodman School on 3500 Mulberry, with a celebrated boys chorus under the leadership of Ruth Thornton Hawkins for many years, was erected in the late 1960s to serve a largely African American neighborhood of young parents and children. The 12-story, 164-unit dwelling of Allendale, A HUD-financed housing development for elderly and disabled citizens, went up in 1985 near the site of Heald's estate house.
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