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Douglass Place

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
83004214

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

Built
  
1892

Opened
  
1892

Added to NRHP
  
15 September 1983

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Location
  
516-524 S. Dallas St., Baltimore, Maryland

Similar
  
Royal Farms Arena, Frederick Douglass National, National Great Blacks In, Homewood Museum, Balti Convention Center

Douglass Place is a group of historic rowhouses located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Built in 1892, it represents typical "alley houses" of the period in Baltimore, two narrow bays wide, two stories high over a cellar, with shed roofs pitched to the rear. Italianate influence is reflected in their segmental-arched window and door openings, and in the simple molded sheet metal cornices which crown the buildings. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) constructed the five buildings as rental housing for blacks in the Fells Point area of Baltimore, where he had resided from the 1820s to 1838. The site was the location of the Dallas Street Station Methodist Episcopal Church, which he had attended while living in the area.

Douglass Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Douglass Place Wikipedia


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