Baltimore's alley houses; homes for working people since the 1780s.

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Baltimore's alley houses; homes for working people since the 1780s.

Hayward, Mary Ellen.

Johns Hopkins U. Press

2008

307 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

Creating the North American landscape

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In 1995 the city government announced it would speed up demolition of vacant houses, particularly targeting small alley houses. Architectural history and museum consultant Hayward was part of a project to preserve representative houses or at the very least to document them before they were destroyed. This volume emerged from that effort, tracing the changing populations from antebellum free Blacks through Irish Germans, Bohemians, and African Americans. There are plenty of illustrations, but the meat is in the text.

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