"Of all the neigbborboods in Baltimore, Bolton Hill is the one that best captures the look and spirit of the old city."---from the text of the Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage Tour, 2004"I have lived in Bolton Hill for 35 years and I know it is more than just a neighborhood---it is a state of mind."---Gerald W. Johnson Journalist, author and radio commentatorBolton Hill is One of Baltimore's oldest and most distinguished neighborhoods. With its elegant rowhouses, landscaped boulevards, and notable history, it rivals Boston's Beacon Hill and New York's Brooklyn Heights.Author and historian Frank Remer Shivers Jr., who has lived in Bolton Hill for more than 50 years, has been witness to its recent history as well as an avid student and collector of its past. This completely revised and expanded edition of Bolton Hill: Baltimore Classic, originally published in 1978, weaves literary excerpts, newspaper pieces, and personal recollections of Bolton Hill's residents together with photographs, maps, and illustrations---many published here for the first time.Shivers writes about many of the prominent writers, doctors, businessmen, politicians, journalists, and artists who were once residents of Bolton Hill and are now being celebrated with blue plaques marking their homes. These include noted writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, art collectors Claribel and Etta Cone, Johns Hopkins Ph.D. candidate and later U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, first Johns Hopkins president Daniel Coit Gilman, and department store owners Thomas O'Neill and David Hutzler.In addition to its notable residents, Shivers writes about Bolton Hill's architecture and history, the churches and monuments that distinguish the community, and the private schools---Bryn Mawr, Friends, and Boys' Latin---that started there. He also tells the story of the vigorous and successful effort to preserve this city neighborhood and its special character during the years of urban renewal.Now in its third century, Bolton Hill is a city community in the best sense. This chronicle of the neighborhood's rich and storied past, as well as residents' civic activism in the past half century, represents an important contribution to the history of Baltimore, as well as to the history of urban neighborhoods throughout the United States.Modeling their program after London's Blue Plaques, Bolton Hill's current residents have proudly marked the homes of its most distinguished past residents. The plaques celebrate and memorialize those who made important contributions to human welfare, cultural and intellectual life, or history. Read Less