Lauraville (Baltimore, Maryland)

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This growth and improvement of the Harford Road transit service coincided with the rapid development of Lauraville as a residential suburban community. The area was developed by several subdivisions during the period between 1910 and 1930 as an upper middle class neighborhood, with many houses built on double lots. Sales in 1910 indicated houses were priced at $4,000 at a time when the typical house in Baltimore sold for $1,200. While Lauraville was built over a period of years by various developers, most of the houses are detached, single family frame or cedar shingle structures, similar in style. The neighborhood benefits from irregular street patterns, and from the considerable number of shade trees that the residents have striven to protect.