Frankford is a neighborhood in northeast
Baltimore
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. Frankford is the most populous of the city's designated neighborhoods, with over 17,000 residents.
Geography
Frankford is bounded by Belair Road, White Avenue, and Hazelwood Avenue to the north; Moravia Park Drive and
I-895 to the south; the eastern city limits, Whitby Road, Arizona Avenue, Moores Run Drive, and
Moores Run to the east; and Seidel Avenue and Bowleys Lane to the west. Adjacent neighborhoods are
Glenham-Belford (north),
Cedmont (northeast),
Cedonia
Cedonia was a fort
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(east),
Pulaski Industrial Area (south),
Armistead Gardens (southwest),
Orchard Ridge (southwest), Lower
Herring Run Park (southwest),
Parkside (west),
Belair-Edison (west),
Arcadia (northwest),
Wilson Heights (northwest), and
Waltherson (northwest).
The unincorporated communities of
Overlea and
Rosedale in
Baltimore County
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are also adjacent to Frankford to the east.
History
During the 19th century, the area around Belair Road and Moravia Road was a suburban neighborhood known as Gardenville which was inhabited by first- and second-generation
Polish
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and
Italian Americans
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. The neighborhood's housing stock differed from those south of it, consisting of single-family homes rather than
rowhouses
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which were prevalent throughout the core of the Baltimore City.
The Gardenville name is still used for some of the neighborhood's place names, for example, Gardenville Park and Ride is a connecting bus stop on Belair Road served by the
Maryland Transit Administration
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.
Today, Frankford has densified and some of what were once single-family houses have now been converted into multi-family units. The area remains predominantly residential with Belair Road along its edge serving as a retail corridor for the neighborhoods which converge along it.
Notable residents
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Brandon Scott
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, mayor of Baltimore since 2020
References
Further reading
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Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Northeast Baltimore