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Our Communities
Abell Arcadia Belair/Edison Baltimore Highlands Coldstream Charles Village Harwood Homestead Montebello Oakenshawe These are just a few of the many neighborhoods in the Baltimore area. For more neighborhood information click here. Mt Washington The neighborhood is comprised of approximately 1600 residences surrounded by attractions, natural and man made. On the Norh West edge, Luckman Park provides a place to play tennis, picnic or walk through the woods; the park was the site of our 1998 annual neighborhood Picnic, and is slated to receive over $100,000 worth of renvations in 1999. At the other (southeast) end of the neighborhood, the University of Baltimore Fields include playing fields for lacrosse and rugby, and a golf driving range open to the public. The Mount Washington Village is part of the eastern section of the neighborhood, which includes restaurants, salons, clothing stores, specialty shops and even a veterinarian. Also included in the village is the Clayworks, a non-profit that promotes the exploration of ceramics in the setting of an old library building. Across the Jones Falls from the village is the Mount Washington Mill, an historic mill complex along the Jones Falls reborn as a shopping center including a Fresh Fields natural foods grocery store, Starbucks, Framin Place, Amazing Glaze and Smith & Hawken. To the north is the Bonnie View Country Club, which includes golf, tennis and swimming. Mt. Washington boasts two swim clubs: the Mt. Washington Swim Club (contact Deb Kleiner, 410-466-2069) , which is a neighborhood non-profit summer time swim club, and Meadowbrook, which is a year-round swim club and fitness center includes olympic swimming pools that actually produces olympic swimmers (such as Anita Nall). To the south is the beautiful Cylburn Arboretum, which includes specimen trees, well marked nature trails and bird watching. The neighborhood is served by the Light Rail, with service to Camden Yards and the Airport, and several bus lines. Major employers surrounding Mt. Washington include the St. Paul Companies and Sinai Hospital. Greater Mt Washington CheswoldeThe history of the Cheswolde area extends back to the 18th Century. Land north of Western Run in the vicinity of Greenspring Avenue and Pimlico Road was owned at the turn of the 19th Century by Charles Carroll of Carrollton. A house still stands at the northwest corner of Greenspring Avenue and Cross Country Boulevard, and is reputed to have been Charles Carroll's hunting lodge for his surrounding property. At approximately this location on the Western Run a grist mill operated for the first half of the 19th Century. Around mid-Century it was converted to a snuff mill, and operated as such until damaged by flood in 1868. The Pimlico Road dates from the 18th Century, but no record of early settlement along its Cheswolde portion exists. Green Spring Avenue was originally a construction project of a private turnpike company. Chartered in 1858 to build and operate a road from the present Green Spring Valley Road to the City, the company only worked sporadically at completing the project, and it is likely no tools were ever collected. By 1867 the portion linking the present Cheswolde area to the City was complete but no settlement of consequence followed. By 1898 the Baltimore and Northern Electric Railway Line (later, United Railways, Inc.) crossed Pimlico Road north of Western Run. By 1915, acreage called Cheswolde Farms - southwest of Greenspring Avenue and between Western Run and the United Railways Line tracks - had been laid out and subdivided. Although annexed to Baltimore City in 1918, the Cheswolde area had, by 1940, experienced little further development; only a scattering of single family detached housed had been constructed in Cheswolde farms, and along Greenspring Avenue. As with other communities in Northwest Baltimore, much residential building in Cheswolde occurred between 1940 and 1960. Beginning in the late 1960's and continuing into the present, the property that constituted the housing in Cheswolde is largely a mixture of single family detached homes, and of garden apartments. These are located mainly along Clarks Lane and Fallstaff Road, Western Run Drive, and South Green Meadow Parkway. Much of the remaining undeveloped land in Cheswolde lies in the Western Run floodplain. Old Curtis-Wright Airfield, in the northwestern corner of the Cheswolde community, has over the past 15 years been developed as townhouses, garden apartments and condominiums. This 250 acre land parcel was purchased by the Curtiss Wright Company in the late 1920's and operated by Curtiss Wright and later independently as an airfield and flight school into the 1950's.
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