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This article is about the community in Baltimore, Maryland. For the former city in Kentucky, see Douglass Hills, Kentucky,

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Douglass Place
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Douglass Place, May 2012
Location	516-524 S. Dallas St., Baltimore, Maryland
Area	less than one acre
Built	1892
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	83004214
Added to NRHP	September 15, 1983

Douglass Place is a group of historic rowhouses located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Built in 1892, it represents typical "alley houses" of the period in Baltimore, two narrow bays wide, two stories high over a cellar, with shed roofs pitched to the rear. Italianate influence is reflected in their segmental-arched window and door openings, and in the simple molded sheet metal cornices which crown the buildings. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) constructed the five buildings as rental housing for blacks in the Fells Point area of Baltimore, where he had resided from the 1820s to 1838. The site was the location of the Dallas Street Station Methodist Episcopal Church, which he had attended while living in the area.

Douglass Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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