Ingleside Ave. and Calverton St., Catonsville, Maryland. County/parish: Baltimore.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 13, 1977. NRIS 77000683.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.Also known as:
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106776324