Weird on the Streets of Baltimore

This is pretty amazing.  This row-house has been completely, and I mean, completely gutted without disturbing the homes around it.  In the 70's this was a pretty common occurance as the city began plans for i-95 to be developed through the heart of where we now live (Federal Hill, Fell's Point, and Otterbein).  They changed path of Interstate 95 which now runs the outside of the city to the South of us.  But, because the city had purchased the land in expectation of needing the land for the Interstate, it now left them in possession of hundreds of badly-deteriorated rowhouses. After starting to tear them down, the City of Baltimore decided to keep the remaining houses intact and inaugurate the largest urban homesteading program in the history of the United States. All of the exiting original neighborhood houses were restored in the 1970s as a part of Baltimore's "dollar homes" urban homesteading program. Our friend Josh's parents live in one of the original dollar house.  His grandmother told his parents they paid a dollar too much.  These homes are now some of the most sought after property in the city of Baltimore.