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Uncovering a neighborhood’s history from behind the plywood used to board it up; exhuming not just the material used to build it, but the personal affects that once made it a home.

In East Baltimore, where Humanim is dismantling rowhomes, a blog tracks the everyday artifacts found there. The minutiae of forged clay building blocks—their composition, their history, their nomenclature—is his hobby, if not obsession. (He has a collection of more than 1,000 bricks, many on display in his Seton Hill rowhouse.). Read the full story by

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The opportunity to reclaim the story of historic materials… Vacant rowhouses are a significant challenge for many of Baltimore’s historic neighborhoods. After decades of abandonment and neglect, demolition at some point looks like the only option. However, demolition doesn’t have to mean a bulldozer. Deconstruction can take a house apart, floorboard by floorboard, joist by

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