This church is the oldest in the Upper Fells Point Historic District, completed in 1848. Originally dedicated as a 鈥渕ariner鈥檚 church,鈥 it has been home to several community institutions over the past鈥

Just outside the limits of Baltimore City, on a piece of land jutting out into the Patapsco River, Maryland鈥檚 first steel plants were built. In 1887, the Maryland Steel Company purchased an area of鈥

In the 1930s, when the managers at Bethlehem Steel remained staunchly opposed to unionization, labor activists at Sparrow鈥檚 Point faced real challenges. According to Ellen Pinter, men couldn鈥檛 wear鈥

Light and music onced poured out the windows and door of the Sphinx Club on Pennsylvania Avenue but only club members (and musicians) could get inside to enjoy the drinks and entertainment. Today, the鈥

Like James Keelty, who built many of the rowhouses in Edmondson Village, many of the neighborhood鈥檚 new residents were Catholic and attended church to the east at St. Edward's on Poplar Grove or鈥

St. Edward's organized in 1878 as a mission of St. Peter the Apostle, which was led by Fr. Owen B. Carrigan. Carrigan supervised the construction of the first church in 1880 for a congregation that鈥

A true gem of Baltimore religious architecture, the handsome Gothic Revival tower of St. Luke鈥檚 Church is matched by its richly detailed sanctuary. While architect J.W. Priest oversaw the completion鈥

There are few places where you can stand in the middle of a room and almost everything you see is made or decorated by Tiffany: glass, paint, finishes, etc. St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church on鈥

In the mid-nineteenth century, Catholic residents of Hampden belonged to the St. Mary of the Assumption parish in Govans, a distant walk from the burgeoning neighborhood. Since the industrial mill鈥