The Baltimore Block, Half Scale 1:24 Baltimore Row House 2006

by Grace Shaw, 2006 I t all started when Gerry Schipper gave Grace the Christmas gift (12/2005) of the 2006 Maryland State Day. The state day project was a Baltimore Row house. While talking with her husband, Jim, Grace asked, "What will I do with a row house?" Jim suggested a crack house. Well, that will be different, thought Grace. So she decided to go ahead with the project.

When the Crack House was almost complete, Grace asked if there were any more of the Baltimore Row house kits. A member of the MD State Day committee, told her no. But later, she called and said there were two partial kits left that no one else wanted. Grace took one and gave one to Gerry for her Animal House Pet Shop.

Grace decided to do a House of Ill Repute as her second house. Then someone said, all you need is a bar and adult book store and you will have the Block. Since there were no more house kits available, Grace asked if there was still one of the foam brick fronts left, and there was. She purchased that from the MD State Day committee along with some windows and doors. She got Jim to cut her the wooden parts, the front, downstairs wall, and foyer door. The rest, Grace cut herself. She made the bar in the downstairs and the adult book store upstairs. Thus, the (tongue in cheek) replica of the infamous Baltimore Block was born.