Mayfield (Baltimore, Maryland)

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The western portion of the neighborhood, between Lake Montebello and Harford Road, is the oldest and most diverse. Once a part of early Baltimore Mayor Samuel Smith’s “Montebello” estate, by the mid-1800s it had developed into a rural farming community along an unpaved toll road. Many of the homes in this part of Mayfield are Victorian Farmhouses from this period. Later Daylight Row Houses and large Queen Anne Victorian homes were built as the streetcar line extended East and the City of Baltimore built Lake Montebello as a city reservoir in the late 1800s.


The houses on the first two blocks of Mayfield and Erdman Avenues East of Harford Road reflect the move from urban to suburban living by wealthy Baltimoreans at the end of the 19th and early 20th century - large Four-Square, Shingle-Style, Georgian and Richardsonian Romanesque houses in park-like settings.

In 1922, large tracts of land were sold to local developers who built various types and sizes of single family and semi-detached homes. These houses reflect the eclecticism of architectural styles of the 1920s and 30s, including Bungalows, English and Tudor Cottages, Colonials and Spanish Revival houses. The majority of building in Mayfield was completed by 1945.
According to the 2000 US Census, 955 people live in Mayfield with 77% White and 18.8% African-American. The median family income is $80,191. 94.9% of the houses are occupied and 85.1% of those are occupied by the home's owner.

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