Old Salem Church and Cemetery

Old Salem Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran Church and adjacent cemetery located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The main part of the 1849 Gothic Revival church building is a three bay, irregular stone structure approximately 28 feet wide and 42 feet long. It features a gable roof, a short boxy steeple, an entrance porch at the front and an apse at the rear. The interior features a gallery and organ loft has the original tracker organ, which is still hand pumped by a wooden lever on the north side of the case. From early on, the ground to the south of the church was laid out as a cemetery. The church was founded by German Lutheran immigrants.[2]

Old Salem Church and Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Old Salem Church and Cemetery, December 2009
Location	701 Ingleside Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland
Coordinates	39°17′5″N 76°43′53″W
Area	1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built	1849
Architect	Moessmeringer, Johann
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	77000683[1]
Added to NRHP	December 13, 1977

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Kenneth M. Short (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Old Salem Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

• Old Salem Church and Cemetery, Baltimore County, including photo from 1997, at Maryland Historical Trust