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30-697: Otterbein Church may refer to: Otterbein Church (Baltimore, Maryland) , listed on the NRHP in Maryland Otterbein Church (Evans, West Virginia) , listed on the NRHP in West Virginia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Otterbein Church . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

60-509: A diverse mix of "native" whites, white immigrants from other states, established and prosperous German and Irish immigrants, newer and poorer German and Irish immigrants, and free blacks. Otterbein experienced a new wave of immigration in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries by immigrants from Italy , Greece , Russia , and Poland . A Catholic church on Lee St. and an affiliated school on Hill St. helped serve many of these immigrants. The housing stock and overall affluence of

90-694: A proposed cross-town routing of Interstate 95 before it was instead routed further south where it skirts the residential neighborhoods of old South Baltimore and nearby historic Federal Hill , to the Fort McHenry Tunnel and under the Baltimore Harbor/Patapsco River. In the late 1970s, the spared rowhouses were offered up to prospective "urban homesteaders" for the famous "dollar a house" and were gradually renovated, updated and restored with additional homes and "row-house-like" apartments and condos constructed in between

120-671: A restored and historic 1897 Niemann pipe organ.   It was the last organ built by perhaps the least known and best of American organbuilders, Henry Niemann.  It is complete, original and unaltered, and in weekly use.  The organ was played in recital during the Organ Historical Society Convention in July 2024. Otterbein, Baltimore Otterbein is a small neighborhood of historic rowhouses in Baltimore , Maryland, United States. Otterbein

150-515: A very powerful grassroots coalition that succeeded in re-routing the interstate to a more southern route and saving all three neighborhoods. This effort was led in part by Highlandtown resident Barbara Mikulski , who used her success and prominence in this fight to launch her political career. The changed path of Interstate 95 left the government in possession of hundreds of badly-deteriorated rowhouses in Otterbein. After starting to tear them down,

180-461: Is a two-story brick Georgian structure with a peaked roof, built 1785–1786. It features a square bell tower and an octagonal white "cupola-on-cupola", with much of the original wavy, hand-blown glass window panes still remaining. It had a major remodeling occurring in 1839, and some additional cleaning and restoration of its exterior brick walls and wall-fence surrounding the parish. The tower's bells date to 1789, and are still in use. That same year,

210-485: Is immediately southwest of, and in close walking distance to, the Inner Harbor . The neighborhood is very compact, entirely located between Hanover Street and Sharp Street, and between Barre Street and Henrietta Street. It is in small parts of zip codes 21201 and 21230. It is named for Old Otterbein Church , located immediately north of the neighborhood. The original houses in the neighborhood were constructed in

240-738: The Camden Yards baseball and football stadiums, which crowd the surrounding streets near the church with sports fans several times a week in season. The congregation played an important part in the early days and the organization of several American Protestant denominations at the end of the Eighteen century and the start of the Nineteenth. In the next century, the original Church of the United Brethren in Christ merged in 1946 with

270-559: The Colonial period, who had now been merged into the "E.U.B." Church since 1946, to join them in 1968 with a wider fellowship now of the disciples of John , (1703–1791), and Charles Wesley , (1707–1788), Anglican priests who advanced the popular enthusiastic revival of the faith to the old Anglicans in what they perceived as the stuffy old Church of England with those that their fellow missionaries Asbury and Strawbridge cooperated and fellowshipped with two hundred years before. This

300-434: The 1840s and 1850s as single houses or as two-house "developments." The size of the houses, and the social status of their occupants, varied primarily based on their location within a square-block pattern. The largest homes and most affluent residents were located on the primary east-west streets (Barre, Lee, and Hill). These homes were built and lived in by a mixture of business people involved in leadership positions in some of

330-567: The City of Baltimore decided to keep the remaining houses intact and inaugurate the largest urban homesteading program in the history of the United States. All of the existing original neighborhood houses were restored in the 1970s as a part of Baltimore's "dollar homes" urban homesteading program. After the success of this homesteading project in Otterbein was assured, the city allowed for the development of new townhomes and condominiums around

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360-418: The decades since. To the northwest of the old historic, now landmark church, jumping across the Camden Yards sports complex, the older community-shattering " urban renewal " style of the 1940s to 50s and 60s had spared also those neighborhoods, so "Pigtown"/Washington Village , Ridgely's Delight " with projects of individual house rows and new replica housing along West Barre Street and South Paca Street all

390-470: The first Conference of United Brethren preachers was held and resulted in the official organization of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ , with Pastor Philip William Otterbein , (1726–1813) as a bishop (five years after he participated in the "laying on" of hands on famous evangelist and missionary Francis Asbury , (1745–1816), ordained as the first bishop of the new Methodist Episcopal Church . He

420-688: The former Evangelical Association , then called the Evangelical Church, to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church (E.U.B.). Meanwhile, on a parallel course, their former German and English Reformed Protestant brothers and sisters from the late 18th Century, which had formed the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1784, had evolved into several Methodist churches After cooperating with the handful of other American Methodist, splitting during

450-577: The last two decades. Much of this area is now occupied by Oriole Park at Camden Yards baseball stadium (built in 1992), the Baltimore Convention Center (built 1979, with a large 2002 addition), and several large glass-towered hotels of national chains, to the east, west, and north. To the south lies a several block-sized remnant of the former configuration, featuring many examples of the classic "working-man's" small two-story brick rowhouse. However, some of which were torn down for

480-440: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Otterbein_Church&oldid=822425135 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Church building disambiguation pages Otterbein Church (Baltimore, Maryland) It

510-544: The mid-19th Century, first over the role of the historic supervising office of bishops . Methodist EPISCOPAL versus Methodist PROTESTANT Churches – where the word Greek word "episkopos" is used for the supervising "bishop", and the "M.E." Church felt it was important for the Methodists to continue with whereas the opposing simpler "M.P."'s counted on more local congregational authority. Later another split, which also occurred and ripped apart most other American churches of

540-401: The mix of social class and house size within a particular block, house size and social class also went slightly from higher to lower along a northeast to southwest gradient (richest people and largest homes to the north and east, diminishing in the southern and western parts of the neighborhood). In addition to this diversity in housing size, employment, and social class, the neighborhood was also

570-469: The most important industries of the city, including construction (especially brick-making), shipping, shipbuilding, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , and retail sales. Houses on the primary north-south streets (Sharp and Hanover) were smaller but still sizable for the time period. Residents in these homes were involved in many of the same industries as their wealthier neighbors, but usually in less-remunerative skilled or clerk positions. The smallest homes in

600-460: The neighborhood declined throughout this period as wealthier families moved into larger homes in newly established neighborhoods farther away from downtown Baltimore. The final stage in this decline began during World War II, as a need for war housing led the owners of Otterbein homes to split up the individual rowhouses into many apartments, leading to overcrowding, poor sanitation, architectural sloppiness, and deteriorating physical conditions. After

630-408: The neighborhood were built on half-sized lots along the east-west and even north-south "alleys" on the interior of blocks formed by the primary streets (Welcome Alley, York Street, Comb Alley, Peach Alley). These homes were largely occupied by unskilled manual laborers or low-skill craftspeople, including cordwainers (cobblers), draymen, carters, factory workers, and construction laborers. In addition to

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660-522: The new BaltimoreCity National Heritage numerous large plaques with illustrations and text have been posted around the downtown area along with a simultaneous publication of a map and brochure plus internet website, with tour guides leading various themed tours from the " Inner Harbor " visitors center pavilion, with prominent places published about the Old Otterbein Church and its structure and religious heritage. The church proudly maintains

690-454: The older housing fabric, resulting in " Otterbein now being one of Baltimore's showcase neighborhoods visited now by thousands of tourists who stroll its now tree-shaded streets every week-end. Additional renovations and restorations have spread further southeast to the historically ancient black community of " Sharp-Leadenshall " (named for the two intersecting streets), which also had some new housing complexes built that have held their value in

720-575: The time, was over the issue of slavery , with the withdrawal of the Southern congregations into the Methodist Episcopal Church South . The three however unified in a celebrated historic ceremony in 1939, forming The Methodist Church , which brought "the family" back together again. Then 29 years later, the Methodists reached out across their house to their fellow old German and English Reformed who were so close to them in

750-534: The war ended, few workers remained in this inner-city slum but rather moved to the suburbs, while property owners did not reinvest nor reverse the earlier shift to apartments. Alley homes and backyard shacks especially deteriorated, while the factories, shipping, and shipbuilding industries which had supplied most of the area jobs largely left the area, leaving the Inner Harbor a desolate expanse of rotting piers, empty warehouses, and sunken ships. The neighborhood

780-543: The way to the "west-side" of downtown Baltimore's old "Loft District" along West Pratt, Lombard and Redwood Streets between South Howard Street with most of the major clothing and hat manufacturing structures that dominated American menswear business of the late 19th and early 20th Century (spared by the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, are still there with their solid red-brick Romanesque architecture styles converted over into expensive apartments/condominiums. To

810-535: The west end of these substantially changed areas is the new "inner beltway" around downtown of the landscaped parkway of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard connecting into Russell Street extending into the Baltimore–Washington Parkway of Interstate 295 and running parallel to Interstate 395 , which both exiting the downtown district of the city to the southwest alongside the other western end of

840-408: Was later buried in the adjacent churchyard, surrounding the building. Old Otterbein Church is located just east of the landmark Camden Street Station and three blocks west of the Inner Harbor . For decades it was surrounded by many blocks in every direction by very densely packed neighborhoods of rowhouses, businesses and factories/manufacturies. Most of these former structures have been razed in

870-734: Was now the wider evangelical and Reformed Protestant heritage which came down to a new The United Methodist Church , which was now the second largest church body in America. Otterbein Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, which is maintained by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior . With the creation in the mid 2000s of

900-452: Was seized by the government during the early 1970s and emptied of its residents, churches, and other institutions in preparation for the building of Interstate 95 and Interstate 70 through downtown Baltimore. The interstate would have destroyed the historic neighborhoods of Otterbein, Federal Hill , Highlandtown and Fell's Point . While Otterbein was successfully taken by the government, residents of Federal Hill and Fell's Point organized

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