Clifton School, Baltimore Maryland
Near the turn of the eighteenth century, William Patterson, a significant figure in Baltimore's early commercial history, purchased land bounded roughly by Gorsuch Avenue, Harford Avenue, North Avenue, and York Roads. He informally named this estate Cold Stream, and built a country house on it variously called Cold Stream, Exeter Hall, and Homestead. The Homestead name seems to have been the most popular and became the name of one of Baltimore's earliest planned subdivisions, created by developers of Patterson's estate after his death. It was the easternmost of a belt of communities north of Baltimore City. An advertisement in Matchett's 1853-1854 Baltimore City Directory stated, the situation is one of the most beautiful, most healthy, and most convenient of access in
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