Park Place

Elizabeth K. Heuisler, a deeply religious woman who devoted her life to helping others and most recently organized a group in her retirement home to knit goods for the city's homeless, died Monday of lung cancer at her Roland Park Place home. She was 89.For nearly 70 years, Mrs. Heuisler, who was known as Betty, was a selfless and indefatigable volunteer, pouring her energies into fund-raising and leadership roles in many civic activities, particularly those involving the Roman Catholic church.

An Annapolis developer is planning to build a 225-room hotel, theater, office buildings and apartments along West Street -- an area that city officials and residents have long hoped would become an economically vibrant hub in the state capital.City officials say they are thrilled with the preliminary design plans for the $101 million project that developer Jerome J. Parks submitted last week to the Annapolis Department of Planning and Zoning.The project -- named Park Place -- includes the hotel, with a European-style facade; two buildings with retail space on the first floor and 232,000 square feet of office space; a 950-seat auditorium; 208 condominiums and apartments; and a 1,400-space garage.

The Wormald Cos. has condominiums available at Park Place at Worman's Mill in Frederick.Worman's Mill is a neo-traditional small town on the Monocacy River in Frederick. Its village square includes restaurants, shops, a bakery, coffee shop and inn.The community will soon feature a clubhouse with swimming pools, tennis courts, exercise rooms, playground, basketball court, meeting rooms and putting green. One-third of the community's 307 acres is parkland.There are 14 floor plans available at Park Place, ranging from the 863-square-foot Blair, which starts at $109,900, to the 2,900-square-foot Astoria, which starts at $339,900.

Wormald wins two awards for Frederick Co. modelsThe Wormald Development Co., received a first place and an honorable mention award for two of its models in Frederick County at the 1997 Finest for Family Living Awards given out last week. The awards judge entries from builders in Maryland, Washington and Virginia.Chosen as a first-place recipient in the $140,000 to $180,000 condominium category was the Essex at Park Place at Worman's Mill. Park Place is a new luxury, four-story elevator building.

Police logDorsey: 6900 block of Park Place: A white 1991 Chevrolet S10 was stolen between 8 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday.Pub Date: 7/29/96

William H. DeWolff Jr., a retired Baltimore public school counselor and educator, died Friday of a heart attack at the Roland Park Place retirement home. He was 81.He retired as a Southern High School counselor in 1973. Earlier, he had been vice principal of Western High School and a counselor at Garrison Junior High School, Forest Park and Edmondson high schools. He began his career in 1939 as an English teacher at Hamilton Junior High.During the 1940s, he also taught evening and night school and was a counselor at the Johns Hopkins University Evening College from 1953 to 1970.

Gertrude MerrymanOwned knitting shopGertrude Strobel Merryman, who owned a knitting shop and enjoyed playing bridge, died at Roland Park Place on Monday of complications from a fall. She was 88 and had lived at the retirement community since 1984.For many years, Mrs. Merryman was a co-owner of the Sloan-Strobel Knitting Shop. She also worked at the Trousseau Shop. Both shops were on North Charles Street.Born and reared in Roland Park, she was educated at the Roland Park Country School and made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillon.

As I write this, the rain is falling in sheets and the sky is the color of dishwater and I am slowly going out of my mind.There are nine people sharing this beach house. Five of them are children. Four of the children are under the age of 7. When the rain came, I did the only sensible thing, which was to sit on the deck and weep.This morning we played bingo. I had not played bingo in 20 years. Now I see why. The children took turns shrieking "bingo! bingo!" every five seconds. It is not possible to describe the chaos that . . . well, maybe this analogy will work.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Roland Park, the North Baltimore community listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a slate of community events has been scheduled for June 19-23.A homecoming party, called "A Taste of Roland Park," will be held June 19 at St. Mary's Seminary, Roland Avenue and Northern Parkway, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25.George Washington University professor Richard W. Longstreth will speak on the neighborhood's early years June 20 at 8 p.m. at Roland Park Place, in the 700 block W. 40th Street.

Services for Selma H. Adler, an historical researcher and lifelong Baltimore resident, will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Roland Park Place, 830 W. 40th St.Mrs. Adler, who was 92, died Thursday at the Roland Park Place health center of complications from recent surgery.The former Selma Hamburger was a 1916 graduate of Western High School, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Goucher College, and attended Columbia University in New York.In the early 1920s, Mrs. Adler worked as assistant to the registrar at Goucher College.

Several of the restaurants in the new Park Place in Annapolis are national chains, but not the recently opened Carpaccio Tuscan Kitchen and Wine Bar (1 Park Place, 410-268-6569), which features northern Italian food and 40 Italian wines by the glass, as well as some 150 bottles. Carpaccio is part of a local restaurant group, which used to include Cafe Mezzenotte in Severna Park and now consists of a number of casual Italian-themed restaurants like Sazzio, Squisito's and Pomo Grille and the Four Seasons Grille in Gambrills.

LAURA BEVILACQUA One Park Place, Suite 4, Annapolis 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday -Saturday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday 410-280-0555 ....................... WHEN YOU OPEN A SHOP AND FILL IT with lovely Italian designer clothing and you have a lovely Italian name, it makes sense to share. So Laura Bevilacqua, who was born in Italy and still has the slightest hint of an accent, took the advice of friends and gave her name to the shop she opened in Annapolis' Park Place complex last month. In it, she is carrying the classic European styles that will appeal to the upscale women who used to have to leave town to shop.

Anne K. Gaynor, a homemaker and volunteer, died of liver failure May 1 at Hospice of Baltimore. The Roland Park Place resident was 86. Anne Ketzky was born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington. She attended Park School and graduated in 1939 from Forest Park High School. She was married in 1942 to Emanuel A. Gaynor, who later became president of the Chesapeake Shoe Co. of Dundalk. He died in 1997. The couple lived in Stevenson, Caves Valley and Cross Keys before moving to Weston, Conn.

Elizabeth R. Jahncke, a retired antiques dealer, died of multiple myeloma Saturday at Roland Park Place, where she lived for the past several years. She was 87. Born Elizabeth Rogers in Chattanooga, Tenn., and raised in New Orleans, she attended a business school. She owned and operated antiques businesses in New Orleans and Houston. After moving to Baltimore in 1965, she opened a shop, Mushroom Antiques, in Annapolis and in the 800 block of N. Howard St., where she also renovated a building.

Talk about pre-wedding jitters. After a six-week delay, the four-star Westin hotel in Annapolis officially opens today, 10 days before Tara Prieto and Joe Conte's nuptials. Their 300-plus guests will be dancing in the hotel's ballroom, which still was being painted yesterday. Prieto plans to tour the roughly $80 million luxury hotel this week. She hopes that will help ease her mind after the hotel missed its pushed-back opening date of July 12 . Guests, who had trouble making reservations, are all booked at the hotel.

Barbara G. Mosberg, a former real estate agent and longtime volunteer, died of complications from emphysema Friday at Roland Park Place. She was 82. Barbara Garrison was born in Baltimore and raised in Ten Hills. After graduating from Western High School in 1941, she studied typing, shorthand, drama and screen design at the Bard Avon School. A registered nurse, she was a 1946 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing and worked at the old Annapolis General Hospital. While working as supervisor of pediatrics at University Hospital, she met Dr. William H. Mosberg Jr., a Baltimore neurosurgeon, whom she married in 1949.

With the addition of four tenants, available space at the $250 million Park Place complex is filling quickly before the first phase opens next spring -- proof of demand for commercial space in Annapolis, city officials say. Jerome J. Parks Cos., the developer, announced last week that Morton's The Steakhouse would open early next summer in the Westin Hotel under construction at the site at West Street and Taylor Avenue. It follows four major companies that have recently signed on -- including Merrill Lynch and biotechnology firm PharmAthene -- seven retailers and more than 100 homebuyers.

Amid a building boom in the historic state capital, the Annapolis city council has placed a moratorium on major new developments until the city can develop a law to make sure the necessary infrastructure is in place. The council voted 6-to-3 on Monday night to adopt Alderman Josh Cohen's proposal, which applies to commercial projects of more than 10,000 square feet and residential developments of four or more units. Although the move won't affect projects such as the $300 million Park Place complex on West Street that have already begun, some city council members described the moratorium as a "stopgap" measure that will ease pressures and ensure that the city can support new construction.

Elizabeth A. Egerton, a former society reporter and homemaker, died April 23 at Roland Park Place, where she had lived for 22 years. She was 99. "She was just two months shy of turning 100 years old and said she didn't want to be a hundred, so in recent weeks she just stopped eating and drinking," said a nephew, Morton Millard Foster Jr. of the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County. She was born Elizabeth Adams Foster in Baltimore and raised on Harvest Road in Roland Park. She was a 1926 graduate of Roland Park Country School and two years later married Francis E. Pegram, a Baltimore attorney who died in 1954.

Esther F. Morrison, a retired nurse and hospital volunteer, died of respiratory failure Monday at Roland Park Place, where she lived for more than two decades. She was 89. Born Esther Fisher in Romney, W.Va., she moved to Baltimore in 1933 to begin her training at Maryland General Hospital, from which she graduated. She worked as a registered nurse for many years before and after her 1942 marriage to Dr. John Huff Morrison, a Baltimore obstetrician. They lived in Stoneleigh. After Dr. Morrison's death in 1967, she became a nurse at Roland Park Country School, where her daughters were enrolled.