Highlights of the 2009 Snowflake Tour of Charles Village Homes


Below, we list some of the featured homes and buildings that you will be able to visit on this very special holiday tour of Charles Village architectual treasures.

Refreshments and goodies will be offered, Charles Village cookbooks and historic caricature maps will be on sale.

>>> Tour starts at the Village Learning Place, 2521 Saint Paul Street <<<

Bring friends and family for a festive day in Baltimore's historic Charles Village, named one of America's 10 best neighborhoods by the American Planning Association in 2009.

Victorians: featuring a luxury conversion of a single family home into flats; and the first house built on the first block of the then-new Peabody Heights development (1897). The corner house, distinguished by its tower, was once a notorious fraternity. Brought back from the brink of ruin in recent years, it was featured in This Old House magazine in 2008 (see houuselove.org).



Edwardians: featuring porch-front homes in the painted lady style.

Historic Seton High School has been fabulously restored as the new home of Johns Hopkins University's School of Education. The building features a grand staircase and an auditorium with 20-foot-tall stained glass panels.







Mansion built by Dr. Carter, the patent medicine king. Example
of circa-1900 elegance. One of the few in Baltimore.

Mid-Victoriana: the oldest block in the village.


Park-front grand dames: Edwardian luxury row homes. This block, 2900 North Charles, is celebrating its 100th anniversary.


Saints Philip and James Catholic Church: constructed under the direction of Fr. John Wade, designed by Theodore Pietsch and completed in 1930, the church is an excellent example of romanesque design.



Unique treatments.


Friends Meeting House.


Homewood Museum: a very special feature--your ticket gains you free admission to the museum, circa 1800 Federal mansion built by the Carroll family and now part of the Johns Hopkins campus. Decorated for the holidays, the mansion is an historic treat.



University Baptist Church: designed by John Russell Pope (architect of the BMA and National Gallery), completed in 1926, an outstanding example of Neoclassical grandeur with Rennaisance detail.

The Village Learning Place: tour headquarters, a former branch of the Enoch Pratt library--built in 1896 and saved from demolition by the neighborhood in 1997, then restored and revived as a learning and resource center.

Proceeds from the house tour go to educational programming at the Village Learning Place and to neighborhood beautification by the Charles Village Civic Association.