Ashburton

Location

Northwest Baltimore, Maryland. The neighborhood is bounded by Wabash Avenue on the south, Seqouia and Dolfield Avenues on the east, Liberty Heights Avenue on the west and Callaway Avenue on the north.

Zip Code: 21215

History

Ashburton had been a farm owned by the Gittings family for more than 100 years. The Gittings family was prominent in Baltimore politics. The late John S. Gittings, a banker, diplomat and socialite, sold most of the property about 1919 for residential development by the George R. Morris firm, retaining only Ashburton House itself and surrounding acres. The house passed out of the family's hand and converted to a nursing home in the 3500 block of Hilton Road. Almost nothing of its once-vast acreage clings to it. The first home in the new development was built in 1921 by the family of Blanche Van de Castle.