Polish Home Community from Curtis Bay

Polish Home Community from Curtis Bay Polish Home Hall Polish Home Hall is a historic building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. A Polish school, which had been started in St.

It is a large two-story masonry vernacular Beaux-Arts style building bearing classical features and symmetry. It was constructed about 1905 as the city hall, fire station, and meeting hall for the small community of Curtis Bay within the southern limits of Baltimore City. In 1925 United Polish Societies purchased the building and named it Polish Home Hall. Polish Home Hall derives historical signi

ficance for its association with the Polish immigrant community in the Baltimore area. Beginning around the turn of the 20th century, the Curtis Bay community received an influx of immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe to work in the new industrial concerns operating in the area. Constructed c. 1905 to serve the combined functions of town hall, volunteer firehouse, and community center, the building occupies an entire block within the small community, and represents a substantial and highly visible institution. Polish Home Hall was central to the Polish experience in Curtis Bay. Athanasius Church in 1909, was moved into the hall in 1925 and operated there into the 1930s. The property continued to function as a social, educational, and political center for Curtis Bay's Polish community into the 1970s. The property derives additional significance for its architectural character, exhibiting a vernacular interpretation of Beaux-Arts design through its classical symmetry and detailing. The building retains much of its original architectural character and integrity. The exterior remains substantially unchanged in its masonry, fenestration, and detailing, and the building retains its general roof form, deep projecting eaves, and chimney. Numerous large windows allow ample light into interior spaces characterized by high ceilings and finished in pressed metal. Early lighting fixtures survive on the second level and wainscoting and other decorative elements are found throughout the building. Some changes were made c. 1919 when the building was converted from its original function as city hall and fire station to use for the manufacture of sailcloth. The east elevation entrance for the fire wagon was presumably altered at this time, when the firehouse ceased operations. Polish Home Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

ATTENTION: Currently the Chesapeake Arts Center is putting together a new history book about our community and is in nee...
08/10/2017

ATTENTION: Currently the Chesapeake Arts Center is putting together a new history book about our community and is in need of old photo's and stories of and about the businesses, churches and organizations that once flourished in our community, do you have any? This is the first history book being assembled about our community since the one published by the Brooklyn Boosters back in the late 1960's'
Please contact me (PM) before the end of August. The book is being produced as a fundraiser by the Chesapeake Arts Center which in now located with the Senior Center in the old Brooklyn Park School in Hammonds lane. Lets all do our best to have our family's interests within this new history's pages.

Only with your help this page shall continue to serve the descendants of the Polish Community which once made Curtis Bay...
03/19/2017

Only with your help this page shall continue to serve the descendants of the Polish Community which once made Curtis Bay their home, fell free to post your Polish related family news here. .

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03/19/2017

Mark your calendars, Sunday April 30th, Katyn Massacre Observance in Baltimore

09/06/2016
Everybody watch CBS Evening New This Evening? Not Likely Anymore HUH? Not often lately has there been anything or anyone...
04/20/2016

Everybody watch CBS Evening New This Evening? Not Likely Anymore HUH? Not often lately has there been anything or anyone in Curtis Bay that we all can be proud of but there is now, her name is Destiny Watson and this is her story.

Destiny grew up in Curtis Bay, a part of Baltimore with smokestack industries and some of the worst air pollution in the country. She made it her mission to stop construction of a huge new industrial incinerator less than a mile from her high school.
The plant had already been approved by both the city and state. At 17 years old, she was going up against the mayor, the governor, and a multi-million dollar corporation. Destiny, who describes herself as shy girl, took her battle first to the Baltimore school board. Then she testified at the Maryland state capital. And finally, she picked up a megaphone to mobilize her community. "We are more likely to die from air pollution than from homicides," she told CBS News. The pressure stalled the incinerator project, which has now lost its permit. The Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded to only one person from each continent. Destiny is this year's winner from North America. She gets $175,000. See Video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-student-destiny-watford-takes-on-government-saves-town-from-more-pollution/

Destiny Watford grew up in a part of Baltimore with some of the worst air pollution in the country, and she was determined to stop a new industrial incinerator from making it worse

This information was discovered today, December 31TH, 2015 - and now the Polish Home Building in Curtis Bay has yet anot...
12/31/2015

This information was discovered today, December 31TH, 2015 - and now the Polish Home Building in Curtis Bay has yet another new chapter in its history about to unfold.
http://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/476 #.VoWpO0-Mfvg

Built around 1905 in the vernacular Beaux Arts style, the Polish Home Hall originally functioned as a town hall and home to the volunteer fire company of Curtis Bay. In 1919, when Baltimore City annexed the area from Anne Arundel County, the Wise brothers took over the building to sew sailcloth for…

08/28/2015

We just received word that a church has bought the building. We wish them well and hope their community outreach, helping the community, from our old home shall be a great benefit to the neighborhood living there today; in keeping the helping tradition alive. Please stay in touch with this page for future news as updates will be posted as they become available.

08/30/2014

Unfortunately the building is now For Sale for the first time in almost 90 years, perhaps someone close to the BCBC wwill post some information for the community.

FYI - A past office of Polish Home and resident of Curtis Bay, both her sons were also teachers in Anne Arundel County ...
08/05/2013

FYI - A past office of Polish Home and resident of Curtis Bay, both her sons were also teachers in Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
BENICEWICZ , Catherine L. On August 3, 2013, Catherine L. Benicewicz (nee Tarnowski ), of Brooklyn Park; beloved wife of late Casimir E. Benicewicz, loving mother of Anthony C., Lawrence D. and Mark G. Benicewicz, beloved grandmother of Anthony, Matthew, Mark Jr., Gregory and one great-granddaughter Violet.
The family will receive friends at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Ave. (Brooklyn) on Monday from 3-5 and 7-9PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in St. Athanasius Church on Tuesday at 10AM. Interment Meadow Ridge Memorial Park. Online condolences may be sent to www.mccullyfuneral.com. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/baltimoresun/obituary.aspx?n=catherine-l-benicewicz&pid=166249117&fhid=25443

" Dignity and utmost respect for people are the main reasons for our success and our satisfaction." ~ Valerie Polyniak,For more than 100 years, McCully Polyniak Funeral Home has been proud to serve thousands of Baltimore area families. Now with three locations, our rich tradition of caring and compa...

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