Churches Listed in 1819 & 1845 Baltimore City Directories

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Churches Listed in the 1819 Baltimore City Directory

Church	Location	Pastor/Minister
Baptist First Second Third	corner of Sharp & Lombard streets Fleet St. between Market St. and Argyle alley corner of Front and Pitt, Old Town	E.J.Reis John Healy James Osborne
Covenanters	corner of Pitt and Aisquith, Old Town
First Independent	corner of N. Charles and Franklin	Jared Sparks
Friends'	Lombard and Pitt head of Aisquith
German Lutheran	N. Gay St.	Daniel Kurtz
Methodist	Light St. Eutaw N. of Mulberry Green N. of Low, Old Town	} Birch, Baer, & Force
Methodist	Carolina near Dulany, Fells Pt Wilk nr Market, Fells Pt	} Waugh & M'Allister
New Jerusalem	cor of G. York and Exeter sts., Old Town	John Hargrove
Presbyterian First Second Dutch German Reformed	cor. of East & Belvidere sts. cor. of G. York and Lloyd, Old Town Conway near Sharp Second Street Tammany St.	James Inglis John Glendy John Snyder Rev. ____ John M. Duncan
Protestant Episcopal St.Paul's Cathedral St.Peter's Christ St.John's Trinity	N. Charles cor. of Sharp St. and German Lane cor. of Front and G. York, Old Town N. Liberty St. Polly St., Old Town	Bishop Kemp J.P.K. Henshaw W.E. Wyatt George Dashiell John Bartow
Roman Catholic Cathedral St.John's St.Patrick's St.Peter's St.Mary's	cor. of Mulberry and N.Charles (not yet finished) cor. of Saratoga and North St. cor. of Market and Bank St., Fells Pt. Saratoga bet. Charles and Liberty Seminary Lane, Pennsylvania Ave.	John N. Mertz John F. Moranville Enoch Fenwick & James Whitfield gentlemen of the seminary
African Churches Presbyterian Asbury Methodist Methodist Bethel	Paca opposite the college cor. of Liberty and M'Elderry Sts., Old Town Apple alley, Fells Pt Sharp S. of Lombard Fish St.

Notes:

"German Lutheran" refers to Zion Lutheran [current address Holliday & Lexington, City Hall Plaza]

First Reformed - It appears to be listed, "German", under Presbyterian churches.

Presbyterian "Dutch" - The location and the pastor lead me to believe that this is actually Old Otterbein.

Second Presbyterian - "G. York" was later renamed as an extension of Baltimore Street.

ABBREVIATION	EXPLANATION
{	Serves more than one congregation
..........	Spelling not clear on copy of microfiche
(building)	Currently under construction
	None listed

Churches Listed in the 1845 Baltimore City Directory
Does not include Catholic Churches *

Church	Location	Pastor/Minister
Protestant Episcopal St.Paul's St.Peter's Christ St.Andrew's Church of Ascension St.Stephen's Cranmer Chapel Trinity Mt.Calvary African	Cor. Charles and Saratoga Cor. Sharp and German Cor. Gay and Fayette High, near Lombard Lexington, near Pine Lee, near Sharp Cor. Mulliken and Spring Bank, near Bond Cor. Madison and Eutaw Cor. Saratoga and North	Wm.E.Wyatt, D.D. Thomas Atkinson H.V.D.Johns, D.D. Joseph Trapnell, Jr. Francis Peck John N. McJilton R. Piggott George A. Leakin Alf. A. Miller J.N. McJilton
Presbyterian 1st Presbyterian 2nd Presbyterian 3rd Presbyterian 4th Presbyterian 5th Presbyterian Aisquith St. Church Independent Church Associate Reformed Broadway Chapel Franklin St. 1st German Reformed 2nd German Reformed Colored	Cor. Fayette and North Cor. Baltimore and Lloyd Eutaw, near Mulberry Baltimore, near Cove Hanover, near Lombard Aisquith, near Gay Fayette, near Charles Courtland, near Saratoga (building) Cor. Broadway and Gough (building) Cor. Franklin and Cathedral Second, near South Cor. Saratoga and Paca Courtland, near Saratoga	John C. Backus R.J. Breckinridge, D.D. Geo. W. Musgrave G.D.Purviance Jas. G. Hamner R.W.Dunlap John M. Duncan, D.D. J.G.Smart E. Heiner Wolfe
Methodist Episcopal Light St. Eutaw Wesley Chapel Charles St. Bethel Exeter St. Monument Harford St. Chapel High St. Wilk Fells Point Chapel Caroline Lombard Chapel Jefferson St. Chapel Fayette Franklin St. Chapel Republican Av. Chapel William St. Light St. Chapel Whatcoat Chapel Emory Emory Chapel Columbia St. Howard St. Chapel Falls Chapel German Missionary City Mission	Cor. Light St. and Wine Alley Eutaw, near Mulberry Cor. Sharp and Barre Cor. Charles and Fayette Cor. Pratt and Hollingsworth Exeter, near Gay Cor. Monument and Sterling Harford Avenue Cor. High and Stiles Wilk St., near Broadway Wilk St., near Washington Caroline, near Baltimore E. Lombard extended Jefferson St. Fayette, near Cove Franklin, near Cove Republican, near Baltimore Cor. William St. and Sugar Alley Cor. Light and Cross Cove, near Pennsylvania Ave. Biddle, near Pennsylvania Ave. (building) Pennsylvania Ave. Columbia, near Cove Howard, near Richmond near Lanvale Factory Cor. of Bond and Lombard	{ Wm.Hamilton,Geo. Hildt, & { J.H.Waugh { E.Dorsey & J.M.Jones { Henry Slicer, Robt S. Vinton, & { W.L.Spottswood L.F.Morgan { James Sewell & { Samuel Keppler { S.A.Roszel & John Lanahan { Wm.Evans { Wm.O. Lumsdon & Jos Plotner E.P.Phelps { E.R.Veitch B.H.Nadal { W.F. Mercer Adam Miller E.F. Allen
African Methodist Episcopal Sharp St. Asbury Old Wesley Orchard St. Strawberry Alley	Sharp, near Pratt Cor. East and Douglass Cor. Sharp and Hughes Orchard, near Ross Strawberry Alley, near Wilk	{ Thos. McGee
African Independent Churches Bethel Bethel Bethel Zion Wesleyan Zion Wesleyan	Saratoga, near Gay St. Cor. of Montgomery and Hanover Washington, near Ann St. Cor. Howard and Montgomery Cor. Spring and Jefferson	{ Jacob Moore
Methodist Protestant St.John's East Baltimore West Baltimore	Liberty, near Lexington Cor. Aisquith and Fayette Cor. Lombard and .......	Augustus W.... Wm.K. B.... L.D. ....
Baptist 1st Baptist 2nd Baptist 3rd Baptist 4th Baptist 5th Baptist 6th Baptist Color'd Baptist	Cor. Sharp and Lombard Fleet, near Broadway Cor. Madison and ....... (building) High, N. of Fayette Hollins St. Calvert, near B...... Lewis, near C......	John Healy C.H.Hendricks J. Aldrich John A. Mc..... Moses Clayton
Disciples Meeting House Disciples Meeting House	North St. St.Paul, N. of Saratoga	{ Charles ..... , John G. Fresch, & { Wm.P.Lemme { George Austen & F.D. Dungan
Lutheran 1st English 2nd English Luther Chapel Trinity (German) Second German English Evang. Lutheran Zion's German church	Lexington, W. of ...... Lombard, W. of ...... Monument, near Aisquith Trinity, near High Cor. Holliday and Saratoga Canton Gay St.	J.O.Morris C.P.Krauth B. Appleby Chas. Weyl F. Wyrecken W.H.Smith Henry Scheib
United Bretheran of Christ	Conway, E. of Sharp St.	J. Erb
Evangelical Association Emmanuel Church	Cor. of Eutaw and .....	George Brickley
Seaman's Bethel	Alice Anna, E. of Bond	......
Unitarian 1st Independent	Cor. Charles and ....	.......
Universa.... Calvert St.	Cor. of Calvert and ......	J. Shrigley
Friends Lombard St. Pitt St. Orthodox	Between Liberty and Eutaw Cor. Pitt and Aisquith Cor. of Courtland and Saratoga
New Jerusalem	Masonic Hall
Jewish Synagogue	(building) Cor. of Lloyd and Salisbury	Ansel R.....

* When copying the microfiche I missed the page that included the Catholic Churches for 1845.

Notes:

Zion Lutheran is listed as "Zion's German church".
Old Otterbein is not listed by name in the 1845 directory. In 2003 I received an email from BALTGEN list member, Phil Stackhouse, which may help shed some light on this:
"See your listing for "United Bretheran of Christ" at Conway, E. of Sharp St. - that's it. Also, keep in mind that during this era and well into the 20th Century more than one German denomination shared the same church building. So it's quite likely that the Lutherans and the Reformed congregations were at the same location; so too the Evangelical Reformed and the United Brethren congregations at Conway St." Thanks for sharing, Phil :)
In the 1845 directory above First Reformed Church is again listed under Presbyterian. The 1835-36 city directory, however, lists "German Reformed" with the Lutheran churches as follows:
      English Lutheran, Lexington, near Howard Street.
      German Lutheran, North Gay, near the Shot Tower. [Zion Lutheran]
      German Reformed, Second, near South street. [First Reformed Church]
      German Evangelical Reformed, Conway, between Sharp and Hanover streets. [Old Otterbein ?]

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Zion Lutheran
Old Otterbein
Second Presybterian
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