1524 Hollins Street
Baltimore, MD, USA

  • Architectural Style: Italianate
  • Bathroom: N/A
  • Year Built: 1880
  • National Register of Historic Places: Yes
  • Square Feet: 2,885 sqft
  • National Register of Historic Places Date: Jul 28, 1983
  • Neighborhood: N/A
  • National Register of Historic Places Area of Significance: Literature
  • Bedrooms: N/A
  • Architectural Style: Italianate
  • Year Built: 1880
  • Square Feet: 2,885 sqft
  • Bedrooms: N/A
  • Bathroom: N/A
  • Neighborhood: N/A
  • National Register of Historic Places: Yes
  • National Register of Historic Places Date: Jul 28, 1983
  • National Register of Historic Places Area of Significance: Literature
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Jul 28, 1983

  • Charmaine Bantugan

National Register of Historic Places - H. L. Mencken House

Statement of Significant: For nearly seventy years, this modest three-story brick row house on Union Square in west Baltimore was the residence of H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), a journalist who became one of the most influential editors, authors, essayists, and social critics in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. The house, which remains intact, reflects the personal side of the man who as editor and co-founder of the American Mercury (1924-1933) and, earlier, editor of The Smart Set (1914-1924) enjoyed literary influence and fame and championed such new and bold American writers as Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell, and Sinclair Lewis. Mencken was also the foremost authority on the American language through his multi-volume The American Language.

National Register of Historic Places - H. L. Mencken House

Statement of Significant: For nearly seventy years, this modest three-story brick row house on Union Square in west Baltimore was the residence of H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), a journalist who became one of the most influential editors, authors, essayists, and social critics in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. The house, which remains intact, reflects the personal side of the man who as editor and co-founder of the American Mercury (1924-1933) and, earlier, editor of The Smart Set (1914-1924) enjoyed literary influence and fame and championed such new and bold American writers as Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell, and Sinclair Lewis. Mencken was also the foremost authority on the American language through his multi-volume The American Language.

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