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April 2008
FARMER BARRY HERE WITH THE ANNUAL SPRING FARM & GARDEN REPORT. As is traditional, our April meeting will focus on gardening and the outdoors. Our first speaker will be Callie Schwartz from the Patterson Park Audubon Center. She’ll bring us up to date on the many activities the Audubon offers to the community and an exciting plan to renovate the Virginia Baker Recreation Center. Our second speaker is Roy Hoopengardner from the Dundalk Florist and Garden Center. He will talk about container and small space gardening, and will answer all your questions so be prepared to rake in a lot of information. We let it slip at last month’s meeting that there is a new committee being formed. We don’t have a catchy name for it yet (suggestions welcome), but for now we’ll just call it the Green Committee. It’s purpose will be to show the way for individuals to save money by being environmentally aware and to make Butchers Hill the most proactive Baltimore neighborhood in environmental issues. This is a subject near and dear to me and I hope everyone will share in my enthusiasm. Keep an eye on the chat room and expect an email blast with more details, and watch the other neighborhoods turn green with envy. -Barry Glassman SPRING CLEAN-UP SCHEDULED APRIL 19TH 
Come Out, Greet your Neighbors -- Spring Cleanup Saturday, April 19th, 10-12. Once again, Butchers Hill will join the Mayor’s ninth! annual Spring Cleanup. We invite everyone to help clean and weed our alleys, streets and gutters for spring. Rain or shine, we hope to see you outside greeting your neighbors and helping to make our neighborhood a nicer place for everyone. With fewer than 30 blocks or some 800 houses, we can spruce up the community quickly and efficiently. City-sanctioned brown bags will be dropped off at the major intersections before 10 am that morning. Or you can come to the school, corner of Chester and Fairmount, any time between 10 and 12, to get the special cleanup brown bags and to borrow rakes, brooms, shovels or gloves. Contact person: Sandy 410-371-8346. Please place filled brown bags back on corners by 1:00 pm: North/South – Washington, Chester, Collington, Patterson Park; East/West – Fayette, Fairmount, Baltimore, Lombard, Pratt. After the Cleanup, come celebrate at The Life of Reilly, 2031 E. Fairmount Avenue, or join up with your immediate neighbors if your block has advertised an after-party. Thanks! FLEA MARKET AND CRAFT FAIR UP NEXT! Do you like fresh air? Come out and play with us on May 10th for the Flea Market and Craft Fair. Calling for volunteers for the May 10th Flea Market Contact Tori Simms, 410-675-4948. To reserve your space email Bev. For updated information about the Flea Market: http://www.butchershill.org/about/neighborhood.shtml#flea. Plan Now for a Bloomin' Good Time!! Mark your calendars--Sunday, June 8th (12 noon to 5 pm) is the Butchers Hill Garden Tour with Art Along the Way. Do you have a garden--large or small--you would like to share with visitors? Are you an artist interested in selling your work in one of the beautiful Butchers Hill gardens? Would you like to "garden sit" or help plan and promote the Tour or the party afterwards? Or do you just want to buy a ticket? To volunteer or for more information, contact Joe Rehak. BHA COMMITTEES AND MONTHLY MEETINGS
§ APRIL BUTCHERS HILL GENERAL MEETING, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2ND §
Meeting 7:00 PM. St. Andrew’s Church hall, Chester & Lombard. Contact Barry Glassman BHA MARCH GENERAL MEETING NOTES Reports from each chair of the standing committees as well as the new Marketing and Promotions Committee, Garden Tour Committee, Parking Committee and The Trees and Murals Committee - were presented. The 2008 Association budget was presented and passed. Guest speaker, Scott Levitan, gave an informative presentation about the “Biotech Park” being built adjacent to Hopkins Hospital. For more detail go to: http://butchershill.org/association/minutes.shtml. 2008 BHA House Tour If you would like to be on the 2008 Butchers Hill Association House Tour, volunteer to housesit, or recommend a unique Butchers Hill home for the Sunday, October 12th house tour please notify Dee Lundelius or Sue Noonan. The BHA committee will be interviewing candidates at the end of April. Dear Friends of Butcher's Hill, Jeana Patti, 4th grade teacher ARCHITECTURE IN THE FEDERAL STYLE Federal style architecture reached its vogue before the Butcher's Hill post Civil War building boom. But by spotting the few examples of Federal-Style row houses in or near Butchers Hill, one can discover some of the earliest development in the neighborhood. A free-standing Federal-Style house typically had its entrance centered on the long side of the house, with the roof pitched down toward the entry. A partial story under the roof often included narrow dormer windows. The outside typically featured elegant, balanced proportions in the fenestration, with decoration confined to just a porch or entry. These entry doorways in became light sources featuring transoms and side lights. In some cases, the transom consisted of an elaborate oval fan with delicate mullions in geometric shapes. The Federal Style also emphasized delicate interior embellishments. The Baltimore Federal row house echoes freestanding examples, but with a simpler implementation. The facades often have two bays of windows. Door transoms are simple rectangles, typically without sidelights. As seen in the 1900 block of Gough Street, some houses have partial top floors with two partial height casement windows. Other Federal row houses have partial top floors under their roof with a dormer that centers on the roof rather than centering on the windows below. Examples can be found in the 500 block of South Ann Street. Before the Civil War, Upper Fells Point was densely developed with Federal row houses that were in vogue at that time. One can spot a few examples of these houses near the southwest corner of Butchers Hill. Federal row houses are found at 130 South Washington Street and 120-122 South Castle Street. These houses are surrounded by later Victorian architecture built after the Civil War. Towards the northeast corner of Butchers Hill, we find a solitary Federal row house at 2218 East Fairmount Avenue This again shows early development. The area near this part of Fairmount is where the original butchers stockyards were located in the early half of the 19th Century. — Virgil Bartram SAVE THE DATES! 2008 Butchers Hill Events: COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD BUILDING HEALTHY GREEN COMMUNITIES at the Patterson Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library – Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 6 – 7:30pm Community associations, leaders, activists and individuals interested in taking action to better the environment and their neighborhoods are invited to attend. There will be a discussion of the fundamentals of creating healthy neighborhoods and presentations of what local organizations are doing to help communities. Presentations and projects by Baltimore City, Civic Works, Community Greens, Common Ecology and Parks and People. This event is free. Location information: Patterson Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 158 N. Linwood Avenue. For more information visit www.baltimoregreenweek.org Please take the time to fill out the survey about Patterson Park being conducted by Friends of Patterson Park, Audubon Society, and the Department of Recreation & Parks…it can be found at the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=C2_2fEwk69QbJLOXJG00GuFg_3d_3d The Southeast Anchor Library, in Highlandtown, is sponsoring the Fairy Tale Fling on April 5th. Leave the evil stepsisters at home and join us for a celebration of fairy tales and faraway lands. Dress up in regal attire and get your picture taken on a royal throne. Decorate a crown, create a magic wand, and design your own family crest...all before the clock strikes midnight. At 1 p.m. enjoy Horn's Punch and Judy Show. Southeast Anchor Library, 3601 Eastern Avenue, Saturday, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 410-396-1580, sel@prattlibrary.org NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTOR NEEDED Thanks to Tish Brown for her years of service delivering the Newsletter to the unit and 100 blocks of South Patterson Park Avenue. We wish her well as she recovers from surgery. We are looking for someone who would be able to deliver the Newsletter to those blocks once a month. Please contact Sandy, 410-558-0149. COMMUNITY DUMPSTER, Tuesday, April 8th, Lombard St. & S. Collington Ave. For neighborhood residents only. No building materials, refrigerators, water heaters, washers, dryers, stoves, batteries, wet paint, automotive parts (including tires and rims), or hazardous materials. The dumpster generally arrives around 10 AM and leaves around 2 PM. Please use the open end of the dumpster to walk your items inside. Do NOT throw over the side. There will generally be people inside the dumpster.
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