In This Issue

TCNA President's Message

Neighborhood Committees

• Public Safety Updates: Summer Safety Suggestions
• Greens Committee:
• TCNA Tree Stewards
• Streets Committee Updates
• 39th Street Calming Plan: Update
• Events Committee
• Fall Picnic
• Monthly Happy Hours & Get Togethers
• Calvert School Liaison Committee
• Rental for Squash Courts Approved by TCNA Board
• Calvert Calendar
• Communications Committee
• Website: History of Clyde Nelson Friz's homes and his buildings in Tuscany-Canterbury

Neighborhood News

• The Social Apartments: Air Conditioner Unit Making Loud Noise
• The Hopkins House: Repairs on Balconies
• The Winthrop House; Repairs on Outside Walls
• Baltimore City Study of the Stony Run Flooding Lower Stony Run Strategic Master Plan
• Permit Parking Neighborhood Pick-Up, August 23
• Demographic Data: Transportation in Tuscany-Canterbury
• Where in Tuscany-Canterbury Challenge?

TCNA Spotlight People, Places, Events

• Pat Hawthorne: Selected as an expert tour guide for a National Tour of Baltimore's Landscape Legacy
• John Waters: Legendary Legend Award

Johns Hopkins University

• Early Childhood Center Move: Zoom Meeting, August 5, 6PM
• Student Union Milestone
• James Webb Space Telescope

Restaurants In Tuscany-Canterbury

• Summer Menus
• Peek inside the New Hopkins Market

Home & Condo: Sale Prices, Active Listings

Events In and Around Tuscany-Canterbury

TCNA is stronger with you as a member!

If you aren't a member, please consider joining TCNA this year.

Last year 25 individuals/ households became new members. The newsletter is now sent to 684 neighbors. Encourage your neighbors and friends to join the TCNA or just sign up to get the newsletter to learn more about the neighborhood.

TCNA President's Message

Pat Hawthorne

I hope that you are all surviving the heat and enjoying your summer. Plans are afoot for the TCNA fall picnic, so stay tuned. Once we have selected a date and venue, we will be asking for volunteers to help set up and clean up. Also, we hope to get a few volunteers from our fabulous pool of youngsters to plan games for kids and adults alike.

We also want to announce that the traffic calming project for 39^th Street is expected to start in August. Once we have firm dates and learn whether there will be any disruption to traffic during the project, we will let you know. The project includes the placement of a significant number of planters on bump-outs and other concrete barriers to slow down traffic. We will be looking for volunteers sometime between mid-September and early-October to help with planting (older kids invited too). The planters will all be prepared with soil and we will have schematic plans available for which plants will go in which planters.

Tuscany-Canterbury Public Safety Updates

Garth Thompson, Chair of TCNA Public Safety Committee

John Warshawsky, Vice Chair

Summer Safety Suggestions 

• Keep outdoor lights on your porches and outside your condos throughout the night even if you are not home. This discourages crime from happening.

• Check your car doors to make sure they are locked (even if you park in a condo or apartment building garage). Don't leave any valuables visible in your car.

• If you see a street light that is out, call 311 as soon as possible. If it doesn't get repaired email TCNA with the confirmation number and location. Click here

• If you are going away even for a few days, tell a neighbor who can keep an eye and ear out for anything unusual.

• If you see something suspicious happening, call 911 as soon as possible.

TCNA Tree Stewards



Recently, the TCNA asked for volunteers to join an effort to monitor the health of the trees in our neighborhood and to identify areas where we should plant new trees. The group, under the auspices of the TCNA Greens Committee, is called TCNA Tree Stewards. Members include: Becky Barclay, Jeanne Carey, Kate Creamer, Eric Elton, Pat Hawthorne, Marie Murphy, and Patrick Mutch. Fred Chalfant, TCNA resident, is providing professional guidance and contact with the Division of Forestry, Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks.

We will initially focus on what residents can do to keep our neighborhood green and tree-healthy. Anyone else who is interested in joining the group should send an e-mail presidentTCNA@gmail.com.

Success! TCNA Dead Trees Removed



Tuscany-Canterbury identified 5 trees needed to be removed on Tuscany Road, Cloverhill Road, University Parkway, and 2 in Linkwood Park. Repeated requests were sent to the City for years to remove the dead trees. President Pat Hawthorne, with the help of Lia Lynch in the Mayor's Office, successfully had these trees removed.

Now the Tree Stewards will continue to work with residents and the City to get the stumps removed, other dead public trees removed, and additional trees planted.

Tree Stumps

Eleven stumps were left behind in the neighborhood after trees were cut down. The city will grind up existing stumps and plant free replacements for residents who want a new tree in front of their homes and are willing to water it until it becomes established.

TCNA Tree Stewards are contacting residents who have stumps in front of their homes and who might want to care for a new tree. If you haven’t been contacted, send an e-mail to: presidentTCNA@gmail.com.

We will let you know if a 311 request is needed. Please notify Pat Hawthorne at presidentTCNA@gmail.com by August 9 if you want a tree replacement.

We remind residents that a permit is required to plant trees in public spaces (between the sidewalk and the curb). We recommend that anyone interested in planting trees take the Baltimore TreeKeepers classes. https://treebaltimore.org/treekeepers     

The city does not maintain trees in alleyways or on private property. They only maintain the trees in the area between the sidewalk and the curb.

Everyone Can Help!

See a Dead or Diseased Tree in a Public Place



Make a request via telephone 311

or the DPW web site: 

http://publicworks.baltimorecity.gov

Then send an e-mail to TCNA at presidentTCNA@gmail.com and let us know where the tree is located, the date you submitted the 311 request, and the 311 ticket number. TCNA willfollow up with Baltimore City if tree is not removed..

Baltimore City Study of the Stony Run

The Hydrologic and Hydraulic (H&H) study will determine why the Stony Run overflows and what to do to prevent it from overflowing. The study will be completed by the end of the year. Instead of a written report, DPW will make presentations to each of the groups along the Stony Run and share the results and offer the recommendations for remediation.

Events Committee

• Fall Picnic
• Plans for TCNA Happy Hours & Get Togethers

A Fall Picnic is being planned for October. More details in the September newsletter.

First Friday, the monthly TCNA Happy Hours ended during COVID. TCNA is exploring starting a monthly TCNA get together but not on Fridays. Hopefully they will begin the end of this year.

Let us know your thoughts about the picnic or TCNA get togethers. Where and when is the best time to have them?

Calvert School Liaison Committee

Amy Mutch, Chair

• Squash Courts Rental Agreement
• Calvert's Calendar

2024-2026 Squash Courts Rental Agreement Renewed between Calvert School and TCNA

The TCNA Covenant between TCNA and Calvert School requires TCNA to approve Calvert's rental of its squash courts for other schools to use after school hours. TCNA approved the rental for the 2023-2024 School year. There were no issues with this arrangement and Calvert requested to continue the agreement for two more years from 2024-2026. At the May 15, 2024 TCNA board meeting this request was approved. The final agreement has been posted on the TCNA website.

An enormous fieldstone and stucco, half-timbered house, originally built for two families was designed by Friz and built for himself and his daughter. It was later the home of well-known Baltimore artist Don Swann. In the 1990’s, the two houses were redesigned as a single-family home.

Other Friz buildings in Tuscany Canterbury include:

Scottish Rite Temple, 3810 North Charles Street, Built 1932

TCNA Newsletter and Website

If you have any ideas or thoughts about the website or newsletter, please let us know. If you are interested in helping with the TCNA newsletter and website, please let us know.

In and Around Tuscany-Canterbury

Questions, Comments, Messages

If you see a problem, have a question, or want to help, let TCNA know.

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Air Conditioner Unit at The Social Apartments Making Loud Noise

Hopkins House Covered Walkway

Lower Stony Run Strategic Plan

to Preserve and Enhance the Area from Overhill Road to 29th Street

The Stony Run Walking Path connection between the two pedestrian bridges in Tuscany-Canterbury is included in the plan.

This connection was not completed in the Upper Stony Run Plan. It is the first capital project in the Lower Stony Run Plan. Tuscany-Canterbury secured state funds with the help of Delegate Maggie McIntosh for this project to be completed.

The numbers show the capital projects in the new plan.

Speed and Red Light Cameras (Interactive Map)

Tuscany-Canterbury Transportation Data

Tuscany-Canterbury Challenge

Where in Tuscany-Canterbury was the photo taken?

HINTS: Not in Linkwood Park or on Calvert School's property

Can be seen from a public street or alley

Spotlight:

TCNA Neighbors, Places, Events

Let us know about anything that should be featured.   Email: PresidentTCNA@gmail.com

What’s Out There Weekend Baltimore

September 21 and 22

Baltimore's Landscape Legacy

The National Cultural Landscape Foundation, a champion and protector of urban and natural landscapes around the country, selects one or two cities a year to build tours around. Baltimore was chosen for 2024. There will be 22 free walking tour series highlighting its parks, gardens and open spaces.

TCNA President, Pat Hawthorne was selected to lead the first tour in the series of the Green Mount Cemetery from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM on September 21.

The foundation enlists expert guides to lead the tours, provide information and answer questions pertaining to landscape architecture, garden design and other subjects. All of the tours are free, but attendance is limited and registration is required. The tours fill up quickly.

The awards just keep on coming for writer and filmmaker, John Waters.

Now World of Wonder Productions, the company that produces “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and other programs that “give a voice to marginalized communities and outsiders,” has chosen Waters to receive one of the top honors in the annual show business awards ceremony it sponsors, the WOWIE Awards.

Waters, 78, is one of 10 individuals or groups selected to receive a “Legendary Legends” award, given to recognize “the very best in artistry, activism and entertainment.”

by Ed Gunts

Baltimore Fishbowl

Relocation of the JHU Early Learning Center to University Parkway and San Martin Drive

Information for Zoom meeting

https://jh.zoom.us/j/94429008074?pwd=umn2m7wRwEzug9QbBBmJ5CCDm25PRS.1

Meeting ID: 944 2900 8074

Passcode: 256897

More information about the JHU Early Learning Center

JHU Student Center Milestone

The new Hopkins Student Center at 33rd and Charles Street, envisioned as a focal point of student activity and engagement on the Homewood campus, is scheduled to open in July 2025. A topping-off ceremony earlier this month marked the completion of the building's structure.

Once the work is done Charles Street will reopen.

Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb's Second Anniversary

The James Webb Space Telescope observed the “Penguin,” a faraway galaxy. The James Webb Space Telescope, which is operated by the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus, has been in operation for two years, constantly sending back data that leads to astonishing discoveries and stunning images of the universe.

To mark the occasion, officials published images of “the Penguin and the Egg,” two intertwined galaxies about 326 million light-years from Earth.

The images released today show a distorted spiral galaxy, nicknamed the “Penguin” because it looks like it has a penguin’s beak, eye, and chest or tail, and an elliptical galaxy, nicknamed the “Egg.”

Restaurants

In and around

Tuscany-Canterbury

Maureen LaPorta, TCNA Restaurant Liaison

One World Cafe is a vegan and vegetarian restaurant owned by sisters Cindy and Sue. They have been in place at One World Cafe for 22 years and the majority of the staff has been there for more than 20 years!

Hours: Tuesday through Friday 10- 8 Saturday 9- 8 Sunday 9 -4

Outdoor tables are available.

Happy Hour is 4-6 PM, Sunday through Thursday, with 50% off all alcoholic drinks.

There will be specialty nights with lower prices on specialty items of the night. One of its specialties and its most ordered entree is braised short ribs.

Happy Hour 5:00-9pm six days per week (closed on Mondays). Happy Hour includes half-price appetizers, a decrease in drink prices, and approximately half price beer.

There is a lunch buffet on Friday, and alcohol can be purchased separately as it is not included in the buffet price. On Saturday and Sunday the brunch buffet includes mimosas and Bloody Marys in the price of the buffet.

Kanom has new management. Sirin is the manager and Ann is the owner and chef. Ann is also looking for an additional chef who could be part or full time. If anyone is interested, please call Ann at 410-829-5393.

Coconut cake is a speciality that they have on occasion. Tiramisu and almond croissants are their most popular items.

Hopkins Market

Hopkins Market continues to move forward with many renovations already completed. There is no confirmed opening date at this time.

Below are some photos to provide a peek at the future Hopkins Market. 

Read more about all the local restaurants in Tuscany-Canterbury in the new TCNA restaurant web page.

Tuscany Canterbury Homes & Condos

Sold Prices, Active Listings, Under Contract

List Now Also Includes Rentals

Active means currently on the market. .

Closed means the property has sold and no longer for sale.

Thanks to TCNA member and realtor, Julia Frazier, who provides this information.

Note: The information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.   

Source:  This information is gathered from BRIGHT MLS, Inc and is provided courtesy of Julia Martin Frazier of Monument Sotheby's International Realty, Realtor for the Sales, 42 Village Square, MD, Cell: (410) 908-1760; Office: (443)708-7074 email: julia@monumentsothebysrealty.com

Events In and Around

Tuscany-Canterbury

If you have an event that you would like included in the newsletter, send information to presidentTCNA@gmail.com the month before the event.

Free

Ghost Rivers Movie Night

Wyman Park Dell

3000 North Charles Street

Thursday, August 1 from 8 PM– 10 PM

Rain date of Thursday, August 8

Before the film begins, attendees are invited to explore the first two Ghost River sites (1 and 2) which are located in the Dell.

The Ghost Rivers project is complete, and by way of celebration, the public is invited to a free outdoor screening of a water-themed vintage film, “Jones Falls: The Stream that Shaped a City.” This is a rare 1983 documentary film of Baltimore history.

Before the film begins, attendees are invited to explore the first two Ghost River sites (1 and 2) which are located in the Dell.

Ghost Rivers is a new multi-site public art installation and walking tour by artist Bruce Willen that visualizes the lost stream that is buried below the streets of Baltimore.

This project reveals the hidden history and path of Sumwalt Run, which now flows entirely through underground culverts beneath the Remington and Charles Village neighborhoods. Through a series of installations, wayfinding markers, and writings. Ghost Rivers brings lost landscapes and histories to the surface. Along the way the project draws connections between Baltimore’s watershed, its social history, and the evolving relationships between natural and human environments.

What’s Out There Weekend Baltimore

September 21 and 22

The Cultural Landscape Foundation chooses one or two cities a year to build tours around, and Baltimore was chosen for 2024. There will be 22 free walking tour series highlighting Baltimore's parks, gardens and open spaces.

Saturday September 21

• Green Mount Cemetery, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Led by Pat Hawthorne, of Baltimore Heritage 

• Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Led by landscape architect Michael Vergason of Michael Vergason Landscape Architects and Jonathan Ceci of Jonathan Ceci Landscape Architects.  

• Carroll Park, 10 a.m. to noon. Led by Krista D. Green of the Mount Clare Museum.   

• Fells Point Historic District, 10 a.m. to noon. Led by architect David Gleason, President of The Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fell’s Point.   

• Druid Hill Park: Druid Lake, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Led by Nick Glase of Unknown Studio and Jennifer Dowdell of Biohabitats.

• Druid Hill Park, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Led by Larissa Torres of Baltimore’s Department of Recreation and Parks.  

• Druid Hill Park: Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory, 2 p.m. to 3 p,m. Led by Sandy Simmons of the Conservatory.  

• Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Led by Michael Vergason.   

• Patterson Park, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Led by Jennifer Robinson of The Friends of Patterson Park. 
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• West Shore Park at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Led by Om M. Khurjekar of Hord Coplan Macht.

• Jones Falls and Woodberry Historic District , 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Led by historian Nathan Dennies   

Sunday September 22 

• Federal Hill Park, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Led by Dave Schenning of Baltimore Heritage.   

• Cylburn Arboretum, 10 a.m. to noon. Led by Brent Figlestahler of the Cylburn Arboretum Friends.  

• Clifton Park, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Led by John Ciekot, Charlie Schlauch and Janet Felsten of Civic Works.  

• Baltimore Museum of Art: Ryda and Robert H. Levi Sculpture Garden, 11 a.m. to noon. Led by Philip Dugdale of Sasaki.   

• Latrobe Park, noon to 1:30 p.m. Led by Cheryl Duffey, Parks and Beautification Committee of Locust Point Civic Association 

• Wyman Park and Wyman Park Dell, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Led by Sandy Sparks from the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes and the Charles Village Civic Association.  

• Roland Park, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Led by Judy Dobbs of the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes and Kathy Hudson from the Roland Park Civic League. 

• Sudbrook Park Historic District, 1 p.m. to 2: 30 p.m. Led by Melanie Anson, Deane Rundell and Deana Karras from Sudbrook Park, Inc.  

• Pearlstone Park and Mount Vernon — LGBTQ+ History of Baltimore, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Led by Max Dickson of Olin.   

• Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine Perimeter, 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Led by a National Park Service Ranger   

• Historic Sharp Leadenhall Community, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Led by community resident Betty Bland Thomas  

In preparation for the weekend, the foundation enlists expert guides to lead the tours, provide information and answer questions pertaining to landscape architecture, garden design and other subjects. All of the tours are free, but attendance is limited and registration is required. The tours fill up quickly.

It is a great picnic destination among the impressive pieces of art at the Baltimore Museum of Art Sculpture Gardens. The gardens are free and open to the public year-round every Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting. No reservations are required.

Tuscany-Canterbury in the Summer

Summer Gallery

TCNA Officers and Board Members 2024-2025

• President: Pat Hawthorne (Gardens of Guilford, Stony Run Lane), Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup, Chair Membership Committee, Member, Greens Committee
• Vice President: Garth Thompson  (Ridgemede Road), Public Safety Committee, Chair
• Past President: Julia Frazier (Canterbury Road), Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
• Treasurer: Bill Bass (Cloverhill Road)
• Secretary: Bonnie Boland (The Colonnade, Canterbury Road), Member Greens Committee

Board Members:

• Josh Cohen (Cloverhill Road), Events
• Linda Eberhart (Tuscany Road), Newsletter Coordinator
• Eric Elton (Cloverhill Road), Greens Committee, Co-chair, Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
• Nancy Lee LaMotte (Ridgemede/Ridgewood Condo, Ridgemede Rd), Residential Permit Parking Coordinator, Membership Committee, Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
• Maureen LaPorta (Ridgemede Road), Neighborhood Restaurant Liaison
• Rosalyn Mansouri (Winthrop House, Charles Street), Membership Committee
• Amy Mutch (Tuscany Road), Calvert Liaison Committee Chair, Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
• Jo-Ann Orlinsky (St. James Condo, Charles Street), Membership Committee
• John Warshawsky, (St. James Condo, Charles Street), Public Safety Committee
• Julie Watson (Canterbury Road), Webmaster