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Comments (0)I thought I knew vintage Jewish Baltimore pretty well. And being a geeky architecture buff since my teens, I was fairly confident that I’d seen just about every building, structure, edifice and shotgun shack in B-more that had some kind of tangential Jewish connection. But when someone recently mentioned to me the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and efforts to preserve this incredible building in West Baltimore, I must admit I was clueless. The 134-year-old building, which has been owned by Coppin State University since 2003, is located at 2700 Rayner Avenue in the Mosher-Greater Rosemont neighborhoods. It actually hasn’t been a Jewish institution since 1923, when the asylum merged with the Betsy Levy Home orphanage and moved to West Belvedere Avenue (at the current site of the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital). The structure – which has been vacant… read more
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