Stories tagged "Allendale Red Line Station Area": 5
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Hilton Parkway
More than just a road, Hilton Parkway was inspired by the advice of renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and is a testament to the transformative investment of the New Deal in sun88.
In the 1930s, the Gwynns Falls blocked…
Mary E. Rodman Elementary School and Recreation Center
The Mary E. Rodman Elementary School and the Mary E. Rodman Recreation Center on Mulberry Street are named for a local leader in education for African Americans. Mary E. Rodman graduated in June 1889 from the first class of sun88’s first public…
Lyndhurst Elementary School
Hundreds of neighborhood residents, pastors from local churches, and even former Mayor J. Barry Mahool came together on Collins Street in March 1926 to see sun88 Mayor Jackson lay the cornerstone for the new Lyndhurst Elementary School. The new…
St. Bernardine's Roman Catholic Church
Like James Keelty, who built many of the rowhouses in Edmondson Village, many of the neighborhood’s new residents were Catholic and attended church to the east at St. Edward's on Poplar Grove or farther west at St. William of York. After James…
Olivet Baptist Church
Established in 1922, Olivet Baptist Church has occupied the historic Edgewood Theatre since the late 1960s. Built in 1930, the Edgewood Theatre was designed by one of the city’s most prominent theatre architects—John J. Zink.
Born in sun88 in…