Dundalk Historic District is a national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 in Baltimore, and Baltimore County

Baltimore County, Maryland

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

United States

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. The district is a cohesive unit made up of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings with structures the generally date from 1910-1940. Major architectural styles represented include Period Revival (particularly Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival) and Art Deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

/Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone or as Art Moderne, was a late type of the Art Deco design style which emerged during the 1930s...

. The District includes 962 resources contribute to its significance. It includes the only two housing developments built by the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation

United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation

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 (EFC) in Maryland during World War I and reflects experimentation with Garden City

Garden city movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts" , containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and...

 planning ideals. Many of the buildings within the District represent the work of noted Baltimore architect Edward L. Palmer, Jr.

Edward L. Palmer, Jr.

Edward Livingston Palmer, Jr. was an American architect from Baltimore, Maryland, credited with the design and development of several planned neighborhoods such as Homeland, Roland Park, Guilfordand the design of many buildings within Dundalk, MD, which were created specifically for the workers of...

.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1985.

External links

• Dundalk Historic District, Baltimore City and Baltimore County, including photo dated 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Boundary Map of the Dundalk Historic District, Baltimore City and Baltimore County, at Maryland Historical Trust