Three of its four streets deadend on the hilltop, overlooking the Mill Centre and Chestnut Street on its west side. The community s south side begins at Pacific Street, behind the Stieff Silver building, and runs up to Field Street, which has never been paved. The lack of traffic in this tiny enclave helps preserve a sense of its connection to the past. Close to the BMA and the Johns Hopkins University and ten minutes from downtown.
Some houses have basements.
Most homes have three chimneys with fireplaces. Most houses have been modernized on the interior over the years. Click here for more information on this Neighborhood's History Stone Hill, is a living museum, if you will. Benevolent paternalism was in vogue and one of the forms it took was workers housing. David Caroll owned some 200 houses in the valley - built them, maintained them and rented them at nominal fees to the workers.