Baltimore Block, Brick rowhouses in SoNo district, Atlanta, United States

Baltimore Block is a series of eight three-story brick rowhouses in Atlanta's SoNo district, built as a single wall-like front to the street. A continuous cornice line runs unbroken across all eight units, and the rowhouses are joined rather than detached.

Jacob J Rosenthal from Baltimore built these rowhouses in 1885, bringing an architectural style to Atlanta that looked quite different from typical local homes. This construction date marks when this particular building style arrived in the city.

The name comes from Baltimore, where Jacob J. Rosenthal was born and where rowhouses are common. In the 1960s the block became part of a counterculture center in Atlanta. Since the 1980s the consolidated units have served as offices.

The rowhouses are located within walking distance of downtown Atlanta's business and shopping areas. You can easily visit them while exploring other nearby attractions in the central part of the city.

The continuous cornice line is the feature to look for: the eight brick facades were designed to read as one wall, following a Baltimore convention rather than Atlanta's usual duplexes and shotgun houses. Four of the original units were demolished in the 1920s, so the present row is shorter than what Rosenthal built in 1885.