The former home of Martick’s Restaurant Francais got a reprieve from the wrecking ball today, when Baltimore’s preservation commission determined the building contributes to the Howard Street Commercial Historic District and encouraged its owner to find a way to save it.
Baltimore’s Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) voted 9 to 0 to deny a developer’s application to raze the two-story building at 214 W. Mulberry St., in hopes of incorporating it into a larger development parcel.
CHAP commissioners noted that the building is one of only a few left in the city that was constructed before the Civil War and that it still retains key architectural features on the exterior. They also nodded to its longtime association with the Martick family, which owned it from 1920 to 2008 and used it variously for a tavern, jazz spot and French restaurant.
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