1700 block of Lancaster Street (2012)

ID: 614 ~ Source: Baltimore Heritage ~ Creator: Kurt Waters ~ Date: 2012

This file appears in: Thomas Kemp House

View of 1700 block of Lancaster Street.

This file appears in: Thomas Kemp House

Thomas Kemp House

By Preservation Society of Fell's Point and Federal Hill

Built around 1800, 1706 Lancaster Street was home to Thomas Kemp, a 24-year-old shipbuilder from St. Michaels on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, from 1803 to 1805 on the eve of the War of 1812. During the war, many regarded Kemp as the most skilled…