Old Salem Church and Cemetery

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Old Salem Church and Cemetery
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Old Salem Church and Cemetery, December 2009
Old Salem Church and Cemetery is located in Maryland
Old Salem Church and Cemetery
Location Ingleside Avenue and Calverton St., Catonsville, Maryland
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Area 1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built 1849
Architect Moessmeringer, Johann
Architectural style Late Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 77000683[1]
Added to NRHP December 13, 1977

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]

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

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