Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided

Torn between North and South, Maryland experienced the Civil War in ways that were at once unique and a reflection of the state's reputation as "America in miniature." Now Robert Cottom and Mary Ellen Hayward offer a vivid and engaging history of Maryland's role in the war, richly illustrated with engravings, reproductions of rare documents, and photographs--many in full color--and supplemented with lively passages from contemporary news accounts, diaries, and personal letters.Distributed for the Maryland Historical Society.

History

Cottom, Robert I.

Hayward, Mary Ellen

Americas

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Winner, 2009 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Vernacular Architecture Forum
This pioneering study explains how one of America’s important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens. Where and how did the working poor live? How did builders and developers provide reasonably priced housing for lower-income groups during the city's growth?
Having studied over 3,000 surviving alley houses in Baltimore through extensive land records and census research, Mary Ellen Hayward systematically reconstructs the lives, households, and neighborhoods that once thrived on the city's narrowest streets. 
In the past, these neighborhoods were sometimes referred to as "dilapidated," "blighted," or "poverty stricken." In Baltimore's Alley Houses, Hayward reveals the rich cultural and ethnic traditions that formed the African-American and immigrant Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish communities that made their homes on the city's alley streets. 
Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents.

Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1780s (Creating the North American Landscape)

Johns Hopkins University Press

With rare archival illustrations, including over 150 prints and photographs, many in full color, the authors provide dramatic vignettes that capture the agony of this slave-holding state divided between North and South.

The Maryland Center for History and Culture

Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American cities? What were the forces that led to the citywide renovation of Baltimore's rowhouses? The Baltimore Rowhouse tells the fascinating 200-year story of this building type. It chronicles the evolution of the rowhouse from its origins as speculative housing for immigrants, through its reclamation and renovation by young urban pioneers thanks to local government sponsorship, to its current occupation by a new cadre of wealthy professionals.

The Baltimore Rowhouse

Belfoure, Charles

Princeton Architectural Press

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Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided

Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1780s (Creating the North American Landscape)

Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided

The Baltimore Rowhouse