Two buildings will be considered for addition to Baltimore's landmark list and emergency "special list" during tomorrow's meeting of the Commission for Historical and Architecture Preservation.
The buildings nominated for landmark listing are the former Pennsylvania Railroad Co. district office building at 200 E. Baltimore St., now vacant and owned by the Baltimore Street Parking Co.; and Castalia, a Laurence Hall Fowler-designed residence at 200 Tuscany Road, owned by the Calvert School.
The Baltimore Street building was designed by Parker and Thomas and built in 1905 to 1906, part of a wave of buildings that rose downtown after the Great Fire of 1904. It is the last surviving building on the north side of the 200 block of E. Baltimore; its neighbors have been replaced by a parking lot.
Castalia was built in 1928 by Virgil Hillyer, the first headmaster of the Calvert School. The school's leaders last year sought permission from community groups to tear down the house, possibly to make way for an amphitheater.
The preservation commission meets on the eighth floor of the Benton Building, 417 E. Fayette St. The hearing on the Baltimore Street building is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. The Castalia hearing is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
Shoreline visionary
Architect George Notter, the lead author of the so-called "Notter Study" that was commissioned in the 1980s to guide development along the Fells Point and Canton shorelines in Baltimore, died Dec. 26 in Montgomery County after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease. He was 74.
He was a partner of Anderson, Notter and Finegold, later Notter, Finegold and Alexander, and a past president of the American Institute of Architects. He was a longtime member of the city's Architectural Review Board. While with Anderson, Notter and Finegold, he also worked on the Harbor Lofts, the conversion to loft apartments of a former warehouse on the west side of downtown Baltimore.
Jewish Museum hours
Starting this month, the Jewish Museum of Maryland will be open five days a week, up from four in 2007.
During January and February, the museum at 15 Lloyd St. in East Baltimore will be open from noon to 3 p.m. Fridays with a tour of its historic synagogues at 1 p.m. Beginning in March, Friday hours will be noon to 4 p.m., and tours of the synagogues will be offered at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. The museum is also open from noon to 4 p.m. Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with synagogue tours at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
ed.gunts@baltsun.com
