Old Salem Church and Cemetery

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Old Salem Church and Cemetery
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Old Salem Church and Cemetery, December 2009
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Location701 Ingleside Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland
Coordinates 39°16′14″N76°44′09″W / 39.27056°N 76.73583°W / 39.27056; -76.73583 Coordinates: 39°16′14″N76°44′09″W / 39.27056°N 76.73583°W / 39.27056; -76.73583
Area1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built1849
ArchitectMoessmeringer, Johann
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 77000683 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 13, 1977

Old Salem Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran Church and adjacent cemetery located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The main part of the 1849 Gothic Revival church building is a three bay, irregular stone structure approximately 28 feet wide and 42 feet long. It features a gable roof, a short boxy steeple, an entrance porch at the front and an apse at the rear. The interior features a gallery and organ loft has the original tracker organ, which is still hand pumped by a wooden lever on the north side of the case. From early on, the ground to the south of the church was laid out as a cemetery. The church was founded by German Lutheran immigrants. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Kenneth M. Short (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Old Salem Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.