Built 1849 Opened 1849 Added to NRHP 13 December 1977 | NRHP Reference # 77000683 Area 5,300 m² | |
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Location 701 Ingleside Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland Address 646 Ingleside Ave, Catonsville, MD 21228, USA Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture | ||
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Old Salem Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran Church and adjacent cemetery located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The main part of the 1849 Gothic Revival church building is a three bay, irregular stone structure approximately 28 feet wide and 42 feet long. It features a gable roof, a short boxy steeple, an entrance porch at the front and an apse at the rear. The interior features a gallery and organ loft has the original tracker organ, which is still hand pumped by a wooden lever on the north side of the case. From early on, the ground to the south of the church was laid out as a cemetery. The church was founded by German Lutheran immigrants.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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