Armistead Gardens

Armistead Gardens has a housing history unlike many of Baltimore’s rowhouse neighborhoods. Armistead Homes Corporation traces the development to federal housing for defense workers during World War II. Residents formed the cooperative in 1956 and bought the project from the federal government, giving the neighborhood a long-running connection to collective housing ownership.

How the cooperative differs

The corporation describes membership and a right to occupy a home through its cooperative arrangements. That is an important distinction for anyone researching a move here: the transaction is not simply the purchase of a separately owned house and lot. The corporation is the appropriate starting point for current membership terms and available homes.

Homes near a stream corridor

Live Baltimore describes rowhomes, while City park mapping places Herring Run parkland within the mapped neighborhood. The official neighborhood boundary also meets Orangeville, Orchard Ridge and the Pulaski Industrial Area. Cooperative housing, stream-valley parkland and neighboring industrial districts each contribute a different part of the area’s setting.