Morgan Park

MODELS OPENMorgan Park1. Bimini Builders Inc. recently completed a home at 2339 Ivy Ave. in Morgan Park, which adjoins Morgan State University in Baltimore.A 1 1/2 story Cape Cod with 1,450 square feet of finished living space, the Bimini House sells for $135,500. The first floor has a 384-square-foot master suit with a walk-in closet and cathedral ceiling. The master bath has a whirlpool tub, twin vanities, skylight and a linen closet.A 17-by-11-foot living room and a 13-by-10-foot dining room both have hardwood floors.

Roy Winston Cragway Sr., a former longtime Douglass High School athletic director and coach, died of pneumonia Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital. The Morgan Park resident was 76. Mr. Cragway was born and raised in a home on J Street in Sparrows Point, where his father, Royal James Cragway, was a crane operator at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipyard. "I had a truly fantastic childhood on Sparrows Point. I was athletically inclined, and just about everything we did as children had something to do with athletics," he told Louis S. Diggs, author of From the Meadows to the Point, an oral history of the African-American communities of Turners Station and Sparrows Point.

Kathleen Mumby Carter, a social worker in the Baltimore public school system and a women's rights activist, died Sept. 29 of cancer at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 76 and lived in Morgan Park.She went to work for the school system in the mid-1950s and at the time of her death was on the staff of Winston Middle School, where she had worked since 1981.Mrs. Carter, a psychotherapist, also had a private practice as a family counselor, working mostly with young adults.Mattie Mumby, principal of Chadwick Elementary School and Mrs. Carter's sister-in-law, said: "Her last project, which she hoped to implement this year, involved conflict resolution and was targeted at middle school students.

A corner of the city's Lauraville neighborhood long marred by a vacant gas station will be transformed into a restaurant, shops, offices and a yoga studio, a $1.1 million project Baltimore officials expect to spark further economic development along the Harford Road business district. Baltimore Development Corp. said yesterday that it selected The Shops at Lauraville, one of three proposals to redevelop a city-owned parcel at Harford Road and Montebello Terrace. The developer, Lauraville Center Development LLC, plans to build a 10,600-square-foot, two-story building that will replicate Victorian rowhouse businesses in the area.

Mattie Martin Connor Jackson, a retired business teacher who taught for 35 years at Baltimore's Dunbar High School and was the wife of Coppin State College's first president, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Jefferson Nursing Home in Arlington, Va.Mrs. Jackson, who was 100, retired from the city school system in 1961.She had lived in Baltimore for 66 years, a number of them in the Morgan Park section, near Morgan State University. In 1992, she moved to an extended-care facility in Alexandria, Va."

Residents along a two-mile stretch of Harford Road, which for years has been in a downward spiral of urban blight, took a glimpse into the future of what could be done to revitalize their area and preserve property values.Last Tuesday night at Morgan State University, the Harford Road Partnership (HARP) ended a weeklong master planning workshop for the revitalization of Harford Road south of the Hamilton Business district. Residents and business owners listened as Mike Watkins, senior designer at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., and Robert Gibbs, a retail consultant with the same firm, showed renderings of how the commercial strip could be rejuvenated and returned to the surrounding neighborhoods.

During his seven years as a Marine, Lewis Jackson learned a strict, physical discipline that he hoped would help in his planned career as a youth counselor.But soon after he began work as a counselor at Mount Clare House, a Southwest Baltimore facility that houses male teen-agers with drug and alcohol problems, he learned that his tender side worked just as effectively."He was like a father figure or big brother to them," said Jesse McClain, director of operations at Mount Clare House, where Mr. Jackson worked for about 18 months.

Sterling Alphacanos Johnson Sr., a real estate broker and educator, died of cancer Wednesday at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. He was 83 and lived in Morgan Park. A teacher and later a jobs counselor in the city's Department of Education, Mr. Johnson established and ran a North Avenue real estate business for many years. Born in Baltimore and raised on Dolphin Street, he began delivering the Afro-American newspaper when he was 9. He then worked for a grocer and a furrier and helped at the post office.

Neighborhood: Lauraville Location: Northeast Baltimore Average sales price: $184,000 (January through June) Notable features: Single-family homes - some quite large - on streets with a quiet, off-the-beaten-track atmosphere. Yet the eastern boundary is Harford Road, a major artery. Businesses in the area include a Safeway grocery store and Main Street-style, independently owned shops. Lauraville was mostly built in the 1910s and '20s, but it became a village with a post office just after the Civil War, according to the Lauraville Improvement Association.

The bride wore white, the groom a dark suit. They stood at the altar of Union Baptist Church in Druid Hill and exchanged vows as their maid of honor, their ring bearer and other loved ones looked on. Fifty years have gone by since Sadie Alston Woolford, 73, and Llewellyn Woolford, 80, were first married at the church, but on Saturday, they re-enacted their wedding day — with new touches like grown children in attendance. "They seem just as happy as the day they were married," said Ethel Ennis, a local jazz luminary who sang "True Love" at their August 1960 wedding and again on Saturday.