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Auchentoroly Terrace Historic District

Inventory No.: B-5279

Date Listed: 9/17/2015

Location: Roughly bounded by Liberty Heights Avenue , Reisterstown Road, Fulton Avenue, and Auchentoroly Terrace, Baltimore, Baltimore City

Category: District

Period/Date of Construction: 1895-1925

Architect/Builder: Multiple

Resources: 93 (88 contributing, 5 non-contributing)

Description: The 21-block area that comprises the Auchentolory Terrace Historic District is a formerly affluent residential three- and two-story rowhouse community initially developed in the period 1895-1911 with large, stylish rowhouses facing Druid Hill Park and Gwynn's Falls Parkway. The section of the Historic District south of Orem Avenue was developed first and is filled with brown Roman brick Renaissance-Revival-style three- and two-story swell-front houses, built between 1895 and 1899. Beginning in 1897, the heirs of John Morris Orem, who owned the land north of Orem Avenue planned and laid out a new semi-suburban neighborhood centering around two wide parked boulevards--Auchentolory Terrace, facing Druid Hill Park to the east and north, and Gwynn's Falls Parkway (originally called Orem Park Place) leading from the park to Reisterstown Road. Orem's son, William Morris Orem, and son-in-law William H. West, first developed lots facing Auchentolory Terrace and Gwynn's Falls Parkway with very large three-story, three-bay-wide, bay window, porch-front houses with small front lawns. These houses are basically in the Renaissance Revival style, but many facing Auchentolory Terrace often also have Dutch end gables breaking the rooflines, stamped sheet metal decorations, and colored stone trim. The rowhouses on the interior streets were not built until about 1920, on land developed by the Auchentolory Company, which purchased much of the Orem family's undeveloped land. Most of these houses are large porch-front red brick Daylight-style houses with front lawns. The district also includes several three-story apartment buildings, one group built in 1912, the others in the early 1920s.

Significance: The Auchentolory Terrace Historic District is historically significant for its association with the history of development in Baltimore, and for its architecture, comprising a substantially intact collection of residential buildings representative of the types and styles that characterized the city's affluent neighborhoods in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mainly developed in the period 1895-1925 as a stylish residential neighborhood facing Baltimore's Druid Hill Park (1860), the district offered suburban-style rowhouses with front porches and front lawns in an area directly north of the city's affluent Jewish neighborhood centering around Eutaw Place. Because of residential segregation practices, Baltimore's German Jewish elite began migrating to the Eutaw Place area in the 1880s and 1890s, where they built elegant townhouses or bought large and elaborate rowhouses and built a number of synagogues. When developers began creating another stylish neighborhood further north, with large Renaissance-Revival style rowhouses built along parked terraces and facing the green expanses of Druid Hill Park, affluent Jewish families moved in, opened Park School in 1912, and built an important synagogue in 1921-1927. Like the three-story, bay-window, porch-front houses built in the same years north of upper Mt. Vernon in Peabody Heights (now Charles Village), these houses also had front lawns and deep porches and many were designed by the same architects and builders. After World War I, several Jewish-owned building companies filled the undeveloped lots in the Auchentolory Terrace area with large versions of the newly popular Daylight-style house, also with front porches and front lawns. The period of significance, 1895-1925, begins with the initial construction of housing in the district and ends when it was substantially built-out, achieving its present and historic form and appearance.

District Resources (93) (88 contributing, 5 non-contributing)

From associated listing in National Register nomination form. C = Contributing, NC = non-contributing, blank = not evaluated.

Address	Status	Resource Name and MIHP (if any)
2700-2730 Parkwood Avenue	C
2732-2740 Parkwood Avenue	C
2800-2828 Parkwood Avenue	C
2830-2846 Parkwood Avenue	C
2201-2231 Ruskin Avenue	C
2801-2835 Woodbrook Avenue	C
2800-2836 Woodbrook Avenue	C
2843-2881 Woodbrook Avenue	C
2838-2862 Woodbrook Avenue	C
2870-2880 Woodbrook Avenue	C
2201-2211 Lynnbrook Avenue	C
2200-2210 Lynnbrook Avenue	C
2213-2215 Reisterstown Road	C
2227-2241 Reisterstown Road	C
2245-2249 Reisterstown Road	C
2251-2261 Reisterstown Road	C
2263-2273 Reisterstown Road	C
2275-2285 Reisterstown Road	C
2700-2722 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2301-2313 Avalon Avenue	C
2302-2312 N. Fulton Avenue	C
2701-2731 Parkwood Avenue	C
2800-2820 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2302-2312 Avalon Avenue	C
2801-2821 Parkwood Avenue	C
2301-2313 Edgemont Avenue	C
2900-2929 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2300-2314 Edgemont Avenue	C
2823-2843 Parkwood Avenue	C
2301-2315 Ruskin Avenue	C
3000-3024 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2300-2316 Ruskin A venue	C
2901-2923 Parkwood Avenue	C
2301-2317 Orem Avenue	C
2900-2922 Park wood A venue	C
2201-2243 Orem Avenue	C
2301-2323 Reisterstown Road	C
2200-2238 Ruskin Avenue	C
3100-3112 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2301-2307 Whittier Avenue	C
2309-2323 Whittier Avenue	C
3200-3226 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2301-2331 Bryant Avenue	C
2300-2328 Whittier Avenue	C
3300-3310 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
3312-3326 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2333-2339 Gwynn's Falls Parkway	C
2329-2331 Gwynn's Falls Parkway	C
2301-2327 Gwynn's Falls Parkway	C
2300-2330 Bryant Avenue	C
2201 Gwynn's Falls Parkway	C
2431-2441 Reisterstown Road	C
2421-2429 Reisterstown Road	C
2203-2217 Gwynn's Falls Parkway	C
2219-2237 Gwynn's Falls Parkway	C
2200-2218 Bryant A venue	C
2401-2419 Reisterstown Road	C
2200-2220 Whittier A venue	C
2201-2221 Bryant Avenue	C
2325-2333 Reisterstown Road	C
2201-2221 Whittier Avenue	C
3400-3430 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
3432-3434 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
3436 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
3438-3440 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
3442 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
3444-3454 Auchentoroly Terrace	C
2001 Liberty Heights Avenue	C	B-4501 -- Shareii Tfiloh Synagogue
3401-3413 Holmes A venue	C
3415-3425 Holmes Avenue	C
3501-3523 Holmes Avenue	C
2300-2316 Gwynn 's Falls Parkway	C
3500-3516 Holmes Avenue	C
3501 Woodbrook Avenue	C
3503-3513 Woodbrook Avenue	C
2201-2211 Liberty Heights Avenue	C
	C	Fire Engine House No. 52
2301 Liberty Heights A venue	C
2203-2211 Liberty Heights Avenue	C
3501-3513 Reisterstown Road	C
3500-3512 Woodbrook Avenue	C
2216-2244 Gwynn' s Falls Parkway	C
3401-3409 Woodbrook Avenue	C
3400-3424 Holmes A venue	C
3417-3431 Reisterstown Road	C
2200-2214 Gwynn's Falls Parkway	C
3400-3416 Woodbrook Avenue	C
	C	Mount Hope Baptist Church
2217-2239 Reisterstown Road	NC
2201-2211 Reisterstown Road	NC
2214 Fulton Avenue	NC
SE comer Liberty Heights Avenue and Reisterstown Road	NC
NE corner Reisterstown Road and Gwynn 's Falls Parkway	NC	Modern Mount Hope Baptist Church

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