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A residential neighborhood with mostly restored townhouses (many from early 1800's.) Easily accessible to I-395, downtown, the Inner Harbor, baseball and football stadiums as well as MARC train and Light Rail. Quiet and well-kept neighborhood, featuring 100-townhouse planned community known as Harbor Walk. Otterbein is designated an historic preservation area. Any changes in a property's design, material, color, or outward appearance thereof must be approved by the City's Historical and Architectural Preservation Commission (CHAP) prior to the beginning of work. Changes subject to this review include, but are not limited to, additions, changes in existing structure, and outside satellite dishes and television antennas.
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Walking distance to virtually all major downtown attractions and centers of interest including Camden Yards Sports Complex, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore Arena, Harborplace, Maryland Science Center, Federal Hill and the area's many hotels, restaurants, shops and services. Many small area green spaces. |
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Many restored townhouses from Baltimore "dollar houses" urban renewal program in the 1970's. Also a few condos and some newer townhouses with garages, such as Harbor Walk's individual brick-front townhouses built in the early 1980's in 2-, 3-, and 4-story designs. |
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Otterbein residents can trace their neighborhood's origins to a tract of land that was subdivided around 1840. Small, modest houses were built and occupied by families working in the shipping trade along the bustling piers nestled on Light and Pratt streets. The Inner City was being rebuilt from the Great Fire of 1904, and as Baltimore prospered once again, the nearby South Baltimore communities of Otterbein, Federal Hill, and Sharp-Leadenhall prospered in similar fashion. Waves of immigrants, lured by rumors of adventure and prosperity in the New World, poured into Baltimore from Italy, Greece, Germany, Poland, and Eastern Europe. Unable to afford the posh splendor of the "country homes" of Mt. Vernon and Homewood, this diverse mix of European and Mediterranean people was absorbed into the thriving little community of Otterbein.
However, as Baltimore lived through the change and turmoil of the Depression, two World Wars, the 50's and the 60's, time began to play its cruel trick on the Otterbein community. The two-story "summer kitchen" rear additions began to crumble and deteriorate, backyard horse stables became convenient trash receptacles ripe for condemnation and new interstate highway construction. Perched precariously on the edge of destruction, Otterbein was, literally speaking, granted a new lease on life through the Urban Homesteading Program. In 1975 under the direction of Bob Embry and William Donald Schaefer, Housing Commissioner and Mayor respectively, an open house was held to determine the public receptiveness to rehabilitate the 110 dwelling units, conveniently located just two blocks from the redevelopment of the Inner Harbor. The response was overwhelming; several thousand people toured the houses. Against all odds, but with full financial and moral support of the City, winners were randomly selected in a lottery held in August, 1975. Otterbein, America's largest one-dollar homesteading community was reborn. |
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| This list may not include all schooling options for this neighborhood. For more information on Baltimore schools, visit the Live Baltimore School Links. | - Federal Hill Preparatory School #45 (Pre-K - 8)
1040 William Street Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 396-1207 - Catholic Community School (Pre-K - 8)
300 E Gittings St Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 685-6155 - Christ Church Nursery School (Ages 2-4)
701 South Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 752-7179 - Martini Lutheran Preschool (Ages 2-4)
100 W Henrietta St Baltimore, MD 21230-3610
(410) 752-4242 - Digital Harbor High School #416 (9-12)
1100 Covington St. Baltimore, MD 21230
(443) 984-1256
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Druid Heights CDC
2140 McCullloh Street
Baltimore, MD 21217
410-523-1350
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410 East North Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
410-889-0071
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Baltimore, MD 21218
410-235-5770
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