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Mountainview Road, Pen Lucy, Old Frederick Road, and Athol bound Uplands, a community of 800 named for the estate of William Frick, grandson-in-law of John Swan. Wed to Ann Elizabeth Swan before the Civil War, Frick practiced law in Baltimore City for sixty-three years. This acreage formed part of the seventeenth-century estate of "Hector's Fancy" and was once called "Bleake Hill."
The estate served as summer residence for Frick's daughter, Mary Sloane Jacobs, until 1926. A premier Baltimore socialite, and once married to a Garrett, Jacobs also resided in the city (Mount Vernon Place, in the edifices that today comprise the Engineer's Club) and in Newport, Rhode Island, and was a benefactor to the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Daylight row houses went up on Pen Lucy and Athol in the 1920s, unadorned, brick-faced row houses elsewhere after World War II.
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