The community of Wyman Park is a border community that links
Hampden to
Roland Park
Roland Park is a community located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-class streetcar suburb. The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
History
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. All of the Wyman Park areas were annexed to
Baltimore City
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in 1888. The general boundaries consist of the area from south to north between 33rd Street and 40th Streets and west to east from Keswick Road to Wyman Park, which includes the southern portion of the Stony Run Trail. South of 40th Street, garden apartments, multi-story apartment buildings, and single-family residences have been built. People here tend to relate to the north along
40th Street and
University Parkway and
Johns Hopkins University
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.
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this land remained attached to large rural estates, and the only settlement of note occurred in the adjacent
Stony Run valley. Here, along the stream's west bank, two flour mills once operated. It is believed that one mill, Ensor's, was located opposite
36th Street.
In the 1870s, the Swan Lake Narrow Gauge Railroad (later called the
Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad
The Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad (B&L) was a 19th-century, narrow gauge railroad in Maryland and Pennsylvania. It operated freight and passenger trains on its main line between Baltimore and York, Pennsylvania.
History
The Baltimore and Lehig ...
, and in 1901, the
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad
The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad , familiarly known as the "Ma and Pa", was an American short-line railroad between York and Hanover, Pennsylvania, formerly operating passenger and freight trains on its original line between York and Baltim ...
) was built along Stony Run. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a popular tavern, known as Biddy Rice's Saloon, operated along the tracks opposite Bottle Hill, upon which sits the present-day Tudor Arms Apartments.
Most construction took place in the 1920s and continued into the 1960s with several small garden apartments. In addition,
Keswick Nursing Home Keswick may refer to:
Places Australia
*Keswick, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
**Keswick railway station, Adelaide
**Adelaide Parklands Terminal (formerly Keswick Rail Terminal)
Canada
*Keswick, Edmonton, Alberta
*Keswick, Ontario
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north of 40th Street has expanded, while next door Roland Park Place has replaced the
Roland Park Country School
Roland Park Country School (RPCS) is an independent all-girls college preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It serves girls from kindergarten through grade 12. It is located on Roland Avenue in the northern area of Baltimore ...
. To the east
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
has slowly expanded into Wyman Park, and some of the open space has disappeared.
Northern District Police Station
Northern District Police Station is a historic police station located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a complex of interconnected buildings designed in the late Victorian/French Renaissance style consisting of a three-story main stati ...
Wyman Park is home of the Northern District Police Station, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
See also
*
List of Baltimore neighborhoods
Neighborhoods in the City of Baltimore are officially divided into nine geographical regions: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, Northwest, and Central, with each district patrolled by a respective precinct of the Baltim ...
References
External links
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Neighborhoods in Baltimore
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