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24-524: Seton Hill may refer to: Seton Hill, Baltimore , a neighborhood and historic district in central Baltimore, Maryland, USA Seton Hill University , a private Catholic university in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA See also [ edit ] Seton Hall University , a private Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey Topics referred to by

48-476: A law firm, Schmuker & Whitelock, if he could legally restrict who bought property in Roland Park. Though the firm advised against it, by 1912, the ‘Nuisances’ section of the deed read, “At no time shall the land included in said tract or any part thereof, or any building erected thereon, be occupied by any negro or person of negro extraction. This prohibition, however, is not intended to include occupancy by

72-538: A negro domestic servant.” Additionally, Bouton claimed that he did not sell to Jews, as they were “undesirable”, at the 1914 Annual Conference of the Development of High-Class Residential Property, further demonstrating the levels of exclusion in the emerging city suburbs. In 1911, George Ford, a professor at Columbia University and later the president of the National Conference on City Planning,

96-777: A prominent architect of the time and teacher at the secular college attached to the seminary, is one of the oldest remaining example of Gothic Revival architecture in the U.S. Godefroy, who was born in France, also designed several other structures: these include the city's War of 1812 memorial to its casualties of the Battle of Baltimore during the British attack in September 1814. The landmark Battle Monument (1815-1822), situated at Courthouse Square on North Calvert Street , between East Fayette and East Lexington streets, commemorates

120-553: Is a community located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-class streetcar suburb . The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. Jarvis and Conklin, a Chicago investment firm, purchased 500 acres (200 ha) of land near Lake Roland in 1891 and founded the Roland Park Company with $ 1 million in capital. Not long after,

144-602: Is centered on the former St. Mary's Seminary and College , which was founded around 1791 by Sulpician priests who fled the French Revolution (1789-1795). Today Saint Mary's Park occupies the area where the former Seminary and College buildings once stood. The neighborhood was designated in 1968 as an Historic and Architectural Preservation District of Baltimore City, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Saint Mary's Park,

168-468: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Seton Hill, Baltimore It includes St. Mary's Seminary Chapel , which is a National Historic Landmark . It also includes Mother Seton House , briefly home of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton , separately listed on the National Register. Seton Hill, Baltimore's former second French Quarter ,

192-682: Is within the bounds of Baltimore City Public Schools and is assigned to Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, a K-8 school that earned the Blue Ribbon for Academic Excellence from the state department of education in 1997 and 1998. There are several private schools in the neighborhood: Friends School of Baltimore , Gilman School , Roland Park Country School , the Bryn Mawr School , Cathedral School , and Boys' Latin School of Maryland . In addition, St. Mary's Seminary and University

216-619: The Battle of North Point in southeast Baltimore County . The Royal Navy bombarded Fort McHenry , which guarded the Baltimore Harbor & Port . Since 1827 the monument has served as a symbol of the city: it appears on the municipal seal, and city flag and logo. Another contributing structure to the historic district is the First Unitarian and Universalist Church at West Franklin & North Charles streets, built in 1817. Roland Park, Baltimore Roland Park

240-538: The Panic of 1893 forced Jarvis and Conklin to sell the Roland Park Company to the firm of Stewart and Young. Despite the dire economics after 1893, Stewart and Young continued investment in the development. The Roland Park Company hired Kansas City developer Edward H. Bouton as the general manager and George Edward Kessler to lay out the lots for the first tract. They hired the Olmsted Brothers to lay out

264-699: The Roland Park neighborhood of North Baltimore. The buildings there were designed in the Beaux Arts / Classical Revival style. The seminary celebrated its Bicentennial there in 1991. The only original St. Mary's academic structure remaining at Seton Hill is a particularly significant building, a small red brick chapel, known as the Chapel of Our Lady of the Presentation , which was dedicated in 1808. This structure, designed by J. Maximilen M. Godefroy ,

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288-433: The 1950s and up until today. In the early 1940s and ‘50s, Baltimore City and the federal government undertook housing development projects displacing African-American populations into inner-city, high-rise buildings that were, essentially, created to reinforce the patterns of neighborhood segregation that emerged in the late 1800s. On this matter, the government stated the project was “not [for] slum clearance but rather using

312-537: The Olmsted brothers was a mark of affluence echoed by other neighborhoods in Baltimore such as Mayfield and Guilford. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Baltimore saw an influx of immigrants, nearing 600,000. Bouton took 100 acres of land a few miles north of Downtown Baltimore and sold it as an exclusive, lush “garden suburb”, free of city grime and racial diversity. Letters from the time show that Bouton asked

336-588: The Sulpician headquarters in the old One Mile Tavern, then located at West Franklin Street and the Hookstown Road (known today as Pennsylvania Avenue). The Sulpicians soon purchased the inn, adapting it as a small seminary. In following years they completed an extensive college and seminary complex along North Paca Street. Some Seminary structures were built by 1806. A second, replacement group of buildings

360-675: The heart of Seton Hill, is the largest open green space in downtown Baltimore on its Westside. In 1790, the first Roman Catholic prelate ordained for the new United States, Bishop John Carroll , met with Father Nagot of the Order of St. Sulpice and agreed to a plan to establish the Sulpician Order in Maryland. A year later priests of the order sailed across the Atlantic Ocean . Fathers Nagot, Tessier, Garnier, and Levadoux opened

384-737: The interests of Roland Park and reorganized the company in 1903. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. cited Roland Park as a model residential subdivision to his Harvard School of Design students. Duncan McDuffie , developer of St. Francis Wood in San Francisco , called Roland Park "an ideal residential district." Jesse Clyde Nichols had found inspiration in Roland Park when he was planning the Country Club District of Kansas City. Nichols continued to refer to Roland Park as an ideal residential development when he counselled other residential developers. The park-like setting designed by

408-528: The projects to block the Negro from encroaching upon white territory”. The real estate developer James W. Rouse used antisemitic quotas when building in Roland Park. In 1951, Rouse enforced a quota of no more than 12% Jewish residents for the Maryland Apartment in north Baltimore until 75% of the apartments were rented. Roland Park Shopping Center (originally Roland Park Business Block )

432-506: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Seton Hill . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seton_Hill&oldid=1035792918 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Educational institution disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

456-495: The second tract, and installed expensive infrastructure, including graded-streets, gutters, sidewalks, and constructed the Lake Roland Elevated Railroad. The company consulted George E Waring Jr. to advise them on the installation of a sewer system. Bouton placed restrictive covenants on all lots in Roland Park. These included setback requirements and proscriptions against any business operations. It

480-403: Was a modern development, electricity for lighting throughout the neighborhood as well as gas for cooking and lighting. Water came from artesian wells dug up to 500 feet (150 m), nearly 50,000 feet (15,000 m) of water mains were constructed, in addition to 50,000 feet (15,000 m) of roadways, and 100,000 feet (30,000 m) of sidewalks. Bouton and some Baltimore investors purchased

504-566: Was built at the corner of Upland Road and Roland Avenue in 1896 in the English Tudor style. Developed by Roland Park Company President Edward Bouton and designed by Wyatt and Nolting, it was originally planned as an apartment and office building with a “community room” for civic functions on the upper level. It opened in 1907 as shops. It has been credited by Guinness World Records as the world's first shopping center (though some editions of Guinness incorrectly date it to 1896, when it

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528-502: Was erected in the 1870s. St. Mary's became the first Roman Catholic seminary in the United States. In 1966 the seminary celebrated its 175th anniversary at its Paca Street campus, which had primarily Victorian architecture. As needs changed, these buildings were demolished in 1970 to create St. Mary's Park. The seminary had moved from this enclave in 1929 for its expansive campus developed at Roland Avenue and Northern Parkway in

552-610: Was not yet a shopping center). Since it had only six stores, qualifying today as a strip mall , other, larger centers have received more recognition as “firsts”, such as Market Square in Lake Forest, Illinois (1916, the first uniformly planned neighborhood shopping center ) and the Country Club Plaza (1923) in Kansas City, Missouri , the first uniformly-planned regional shopping center . The neighborhood

576-702: Was starting to teach a course on urban planning and reached out to Bouton as he was impressed with his racial restrictions. Employees of the Roland Park Company would later go on to serve on national boards, such as the Federal Housing Administration, which helped normalize and standardize the practice of redlining throughout the country. Though the Supreme Court ruled against the enforceability of racially restrictive deeds in 1948, segregation and redlining remained prevalent in Roland Park and throughout other areas of Baltimore City through

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