Sandtown-Winchester
Sandtown-Winchester is a neighborhood in West Baltimore, Maryland. Known locally as Sandtown, the community's name was derived from the trails of sand that dropped from wagons leaving town after filling up at the local sand and gravel quarry back in the days of horse-drawn wagons.- Type: Neighborhood with 6,160 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arch Social Club and Lafayette Square.
Arch Social Club
Community center
Photo: Preservation Maryland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Arch Social Club was casually founded in 1905 and officially incorporated on March 15, 1912. The club is very much a child of Baltimore's brutally repressive racial environment.
Lafayette Square
Park
Lafayette Square, is a historic city park and district in the Sandtown-Winchester area of West Baltimore, Maryland. It is bounded by Lanvale Street and Lafayette, Arlington, and Carrollton Avenues.
Upton–Avenue Market station
Metro station
Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Upton–Avenue Market station is an underground Metro SubwayLink station in West Baltimore, Maryland located near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Laurens Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penn-North and Midtown-Edmondson.
Penn-North
Neighborhood
Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0.
Penn-North is a neighborhood in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is located southwest of Druid Hill Park, west of Reservoir Hill, north of Bolton Hill, and east of Mondawmin.
Midtown-Edmondson
Neighborhood
Midtown-Edmondson is a mixed-use neighborhood in western Baltimore City developed mostly between the 1880s and the 1910s. The neighborhood is mainly composed of residential rowhouses, with a mixed-used business district along Edmondson Avenue, and industrial warehouses and buildings dotted along the CSX railroads that bound its western edge.
Upton
Neighborhood
Photo: Payton Chung, CC BY 2.0.
Upton is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The neighborhood is in the western section of the city, roughly between Fremont Avenue and McCulloh Street, extending from Dolphin Street to Bloom Street.
Sandtown-Winchester
- Category: locality
- Location: Baltimore, Central Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.30393° or 39° 18′ 14″ northLongitude
-76.64314° or 76° 38′ 35″ westPopulation
6,160Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
87F58934+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1420206003OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
11980070Wikidata ID
Q7416984
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Igbo—“Sandtown-Winchester” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Sandtown-Winchester”
- French: “Sandtown-Winchester”
- Igbo: “Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore”
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