Lauraville, MD Home for Sale
3205 Rosekemp Ave., Baltimore, MD 21214
$199,000
Lovely Lauraville home for sale on quiet one way street. This home is on a Healthy Neighborhoods target block and could qualify for a $10,000 grant for a lucky new home owner. This great home has been updated and features 3 bedrooms and the laundry room is on the bedroom level. There's a half bath just inside the back door adjacent to the mud room for convenience. The large eat in kitchen has lots of space and is conducive to entertaining. In addition there's a large living room with lots of natural light and a fireplace and a formal dining room. Upstairs there are 3 large bedrooms with lots of closet space and a secret attic area that is floored and could be finished off for extra space. In addition there's off street parking here too.
A leafy suburb situated in North East Baltimore with a wide variety of single family homes. Lauraville enjoys historic designation and this shows in the lovely late 19th and early 20th century homes. The neighborhood enjoys a county feel, with tree lined streets and open parkland surrounding the neighborhood. It is an easy walk to the Lauraville/Hamilton Main Street (Harford Road) which is fast becoming Baltimore’s latest restaurant row featuring such hot spots as Clementines, Koko's, Tooloulou's to name just a few hot spots and of course Zeke's Coffee.
Though today's Lauraville was largely built up between 1910 and 1930, the community has a history dating back at least from the late 18th Century. By 1818 a bridge across the Herring Run (at approximately the foot of today's service drive down to the run) was completed, and by 1819 the turnpike was open to Gunpowder Falls. Soon after the Civil War, Lauraville became an official village, with its own post office, and as a result its present name. Local residents lobbied for a local mail service and discovered the Post Office's requirement for a village name was required in order to be a mail destination. At a local meeting, chief supporter for the village post office, John Henry Keene, a local property owner who also operated a planing mill and lumber yard on the site of today's Bond Lumber, suggested that the community be named after his daughter Laura. Apparently that was acceptable to all present, for the area has been Lauraville ever since. In the latter part of the 19th century Lauraville became thoroughly self-sufficient. Blacksmiths and carpenters practiced their trades along Harford Road, and virtually any necessity could be bought locally for the house or farm. Truck farms covered the area and a wide variety of locally raised produce, as well as fresh meat, poultry, and dairy products were available. Weber's Park, a brewery, with adjoining picnic grounds and beer garden operated for many years along Harford Road in the Southern end of Lauraville, about opposite today's Overland Avenue. A fire station for the volunteer fire company was also built, on the site of the present modern engine house.
Today, Lauraville is still self sufficient with many locally owned and operated business operating along Harford Road and the weekly farmer's market provides locally grown produce and local wares to be purchased by shoppers. For everything else there is public transit that runs through the area to get where you need to go around Baltimore.
The neighborhood is served by Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle School and following that parents can choose which high school their children go to depending on their interest and vocational choice.
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