The lawyer representing Cab Calloway’s grandson and another opponent of plans to demolish the bandleader’s childhood home in West Baltimore made the case for preservation today before an administrative hearing officer.

In addition to arguing Calloway’s cultural importance as a musician and the historic significance of the city block where his onetime home still stands, attorney John C. Murphy made a technical argument on behalf of 2216 Druid Hill Avenue.

Murphy said the structure, along with adjacent rowhouses on the even side of the tree-lined street, should be protected under the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the same federal law invoked years ago to preserve Baltimore’s best known historic neighborhoods.

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