Butchers Hill, Baltimore
Butchers Hill is a neighborhood in Southeast Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is north of Fells Point, east of Washington Hill, and northwest of Patterson Park. It is south of Fayette Street, west of Patterson Park Avenue, north of Pratt Street, and east of Washington Street. It is in the 21231 zip code.
Butchers Hill Historic District | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
The corner of Chester and Pratt Streets, March 2012 | |
| Location | Roughly Bounded by Patterson Park Ave., Fayette, Pratt, Chapel, Washington, and Chester Sts., Baltimore, Maryland |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 39°17′29″N 76°35′13″W |
| Area | 57 acres (23 ha) |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001582 |
| Added to NRHP | December 28, 1982 |
Established as a village before the Civil War, Butchers Hill was once home to butchers and poultry preparers, many of them German American and Jewish American. It was once more affluent than nearby Fells Point, as reflected in its generally larger rowhouses. Butchers Hill is near more gentrified sections of Fells Point, Patterson Park, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. A portion of it is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In the 21st century, the neighborhood is popular among young professionals, artists, and students, residents, and staff at the nearby Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital. It is one of the neighborhoods where full-time employees of Johns Hopkins may apply for "Live Near Your Work" grants toward down payments on homes.
Laura Lippman's novel Butchers Hill tells the story of a private investigator working in this part of Baltimore.