A significant public scoping and engagement process lies ahead. Initial concepts envision a multifunctional site under nonprofit ownership, with an emphasis on public event space and commercial uses. Mission-aligned revenue generation will appropriately balance historic preservation and adaptive reuse.

About the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church

Recorded in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, “The Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church is the fourth home of a group from a congregation which officially organized the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States. It has always been deeply involved in the business, professional and civic life of Baltimore as well as a link with the most important figure in historic American Methodism, Francis Asbury. Its preservation as a contemporary influence is vital to the heart of Baltimore where it stands as one of the four corners of Mount Vernon Place.”

The church’s National Register nomination also notes that the church was, “Designed in the Norman-Gothic style by Thomas Dixon, a Baltimore architect. Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church was completed in 1872 and stands on the northeast corner of Charles Street in Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland. Blocks of a unique metabasalt, a green-toned Maryland fieldstone, were used for the solid wall surfaces; “true stone” rather than veneer. Windows, entrances, building edges and corners are done in brownstone, as is most of the ornamentation.”

The Maryland Historical Trust, a state agency, holds a conservation easement on the structure, which protects the property’s exterior.