Edmondson Village is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of Baltimore, Maryland , encompassing most of the Edmondson Avenue corridor in 21229. The Edmondson Village area is made up of several smaller communities. Its communities include Hunting Ridge, Uplands, Rognel Heights, Wildwood, West Mulberry, Allendale, Edgewood, and Lower Edmondson Village. It is located north of Frederick Avenue , and south of the Gwynns Falls Parkway , Leakin and Gwynns Falls Parks . Communities in the area range from middle class to lower income. A notable shopping center opened in the neighborhood in 1947.
16-551: In 1947, Joseph and Jacob Meyerhoff built Edmondson Village Shopping Center, which featured a bowling alley, movie theatre, and acres of free parking. Retail establishments at the shopping center included Hess Shoes, Food Fair, Tommy Tucker, Whelan's Drugs, and Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Racial succession and white flight occurred in Edmondson Village as a result of the real estate sales process of blockbusting between 1955 and 1965. According to The Corner: A Year in
32-475: A construction company with his brother called Monumental Properties Inc . This firm thrived for nearly 40 years until it was sold for about $ 180M (making Meyerhoff and his family one of the wealthiest in Baltimore). Monumental Properties was responsible for many buildings in the city, including various shopping centers throughout the west side. During the 1940s, Meyerhoff refused to rent or sell to fellow Jews in
48-676: Is 65 ft (20 m) wide and 35 ft (11 m) deep. To accommodate a chorus, the rear wall moves to provide an additional 12 ft (3.7 m) of space. In addition to the main auditorium, the facility includes the John Gidwitz Recital Hall, reception and meeting rooms and administrative offices. The Meyerhoff is immediately adjacent to the Cultural Center Station on the Baltimore Light Rail , and within walking distance of
64-724: Is now Ukraine , then part of the Russian Empire, and was brought to the United States as a young boy in 1906. He grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Baltimore City College (which, despite its name, is a public high school); he then attended and completed his law degree at the University of Maryland in the mid-1930s. Meyerhoff practiced law for some years upon graduation from the UM School of Law until he opened
80-648: Is served by Baltimore Link, provided by the Maryland Transit Administration . Bunk Moreland and Omar Little , both fictional characters from HBO's The Wire , grew up in the Edmondson Village area. Bubbles' sister lived in Edmondson Village in The Wire, and Bubbles lived in her basement for a period of time. Edmonson Village Shopping Center was a featured location of interest in the Netflix 2017 documentary series The Keepers about
96-612: The Meyerhoff, is a music venue that opened September 16, 1982, at 1212 Cathedral Street in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland , United States. The main auditorium has a seating capacity of 2,443 and is home to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra . It is named for Joseph Meyerhoff , a Ukrainian-Jewish Baltimore businessman, philanthropist, and arts patron who served as president of
112-687: The State Center Station on the Baltimore Metro Subway . The idea of a new home for the Orchestra was first raised in 1969 by then conductor Sergiu Comissiona and executive director Joseph Leavitt. The orchestra's home at the time was the Lyric Opera House and frequent scheduling conflicts forced the musicians to rehearse in school gymnasiums and prepare for concerts in dark and cramped backstage areas of
128-485: The Baltimore Symphony from 1965 to 1983. The modern style structure was designed by the architectural firms of Pietro Belluschi , Inc. and Jung/Brannen Associates . Ground was broken November 10, 1978. Acoustical design was by Bolt, Beranek and Newman and uses a series of convex curves to avoid flat surfaces or ninety-degree angles inside the hall. The auditorium is oval, its cylindrical wall extends
144-511: The Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood , it was not uncommon at this time for communities within the Edmondson Village area to shift from 100% White to 100% Black in a span less than one year. The neighborhood is home to Edmondson High School . Other schools in Edmondson Village include wildwood Elementary/middle school, Mary E. Rodman Elementary, and Rognel Heights Elementary/Middle, And Thomas Jefferson Elementary/Middle. The Edmondson Village area
160-537: The affluent and predominantly white Christian neighborhood of Roland Park in Baltimore. In 1948, the Baltimore Jewish Council wrote Meyerhoff a formal letter denouncing his complicity in antisemitic real estate practices and requested that he show solidarity with the Jewish community, but Meyerhoff insisted that his career would be ruined if he sold or rented to Jews in non-Jewish neighborhoods. In
176-523: The building's front. The exterior lobby walls feature large expanses of glass to open the building to the plaza which surrounds it. The auditorium ceiling ranges from a height of 44 ft (13 m) above the stage to 62 ft (19 m) at the rear wall. The walls of the stage are covered in a light-colored wood and feature box seats. Suspended above the stage originally were 52 precast concrete "clouds" which helped diffuse sound. In 1990, management added an extensive set of sound diffusers to improve
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#1732801962361192-524: The disappearance and murder of Catherine Cesnik . 39°17′49″N 76°40′51″W / 39.29694°N 76.68083°W / 39.29694; -76.68083 Joseph Meyerhoff Joseph Meyerhoff (April 8, 1899 – February 2, 1985) was an American businessman, fundraiser, and philanthropist based in Baltimore, Maryland . His son was Harvey Meyerhoff . Meyerhoff was born in Poltava in what
208-473: The early 1950s, Meyerhoff and other prominent Jewish-American businessmen were chosen to assist Israel during its initial establishment crises. He retired in 1965. Meyerhoff continued his career as an avid philanthropist serving as president of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in the 1970s, where he personally contributed money and helped raise millions of dollars. He is credited, along with music director Sergiu Comissiona , with re-organizing and revitalizing
224-416: The entire height of the building with the roof sloping down over the stage area. The exterior surface of the cylinder is covered in brown brick and rises through the lobby to be clearly discernible on the exterior of the building. Backstage areas are housed in a concentric oval which projects from the rear of the building while the lobby and patron areas are housed under a sloping metal roof which extends from
240-875: The group. The BSO's primary home, the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall , is named after him. Meyerhoff also supported many other Jewish charities and art museums throughout Baltimore and was eventually inducted into the Baltimore Business Hall of Fame along with Robert Merrick. Meyerhoff was married in the 1930s to Rebecca Witten and they had three children whom they raised in Baltimore: Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall 39°18′14″N 76°37′8″W / 39.30389°N 76.61889°W / 39.30389; -76.61889 The Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, often referred to simply as
256-428: The sound that the musicians heard on stage. These were removed as unsatisfactory after several seasons, and replaced in 2001 as part of a renovation project. The five-year project began in 1997 and also included a new stage lighting system, new stage risers and equipment lift, expanded storage and performer dressing rooms, increased patron washrooms and improved access for patrons with physical disabilities. The stage
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