Upper Fell's Point Fell's Prospect | |
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 Looking north on S. Wolfe Street in Upper Fells Point. | |
| Nickname(s): Upper Fell's, Spanishtown | |
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| Coordinates: 39°17′19″N 76°35′16″W / 39.28861°N 76.58778°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| City | Baltimore |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT |
| ZIP code | 21231 |
| Area code | 410, 443, and 667 |
Upper Fells Point Historic District | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by E Baltimore St.; S Chapel St.; E Pratt St.; S Patterson Park Ave.; S Chester, Gough & S Bethel Sts. |
| Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 07001034[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 20, 2007 |
Upper Fells Point, also known as "Fells Prospect," is a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Located north of Fells Point, originally the neighborhood was home to Baltimore's dock workers. By the 1880s canneries and factories provided employment to new immigrants, including Irish, Italians and Poles. In the early 1900s these new Americans were joined by Jews, Lithuanians and Greeks.[2] Today its tidy brick rowhouses and tree-lined streets are home to both old-timers and young urban professionals. It is also the heart of Baltimore's growing Latino community and is sometimes called "Spanish Town".[3][4] Although most Hispanics in the neighborhood are Mexicans, there are significant populations of Salvadorans, Puerto Ricans, Hondurans, Dominicans, Guatemalans, Colombians, and Cubans, as well as many others.
It is bordered by S. Broadway on the west, S. Patterson Park Avenue on the east, E. Lombard Street on the north and Eastern Avenue on the south, Upper Fells Point's central location puts residents within walking distance of Patterson Park, the dining and nightlife of Fells Point, Little Italy and Canton, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. It is also just a water taxi ride from Baltimore's Inner Harbor as well as Federal Hill.
In 2006 the Baltimore City Paper selected Upper Fells Point as Baltimore's Best Neighborhood.[3]
The neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 21, 2007.[1] It is within Baltimore National Heritage Area.[5]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Dean R. Esslinger. "History of Immigration into Maryland". Maryland Online Encyclopedia. Maryland Historical Society. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
- ^ a b "Best Neighborhood: Upper Fells Point". Baltimore City Paper. September 20, 2006. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
- ^ Andrew Scherr. "Spanish Town". Urbanite Baltimore. Archived from the original on September 16, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
- ^ "Baltimore National Heritage Area Map" (PDF). City of Baltimore. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 22, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2012.