FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         CONTACT: MICHAEL LESTER, 410.732.0500.X1027

Mencken House to Briefly Re-Open Monday, October 29th

29 OCTOBER 2001, Baltimore—After four years of quiet, the home of the Sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, will briefly re-open Monday morning. A glimpse into the dusty, shuttered museum at 1524 Hollins Street will not reveal a preparation for a Halloween haunted house, but rather the measurement of contractors working for the Friends of the H. L. Mencken House. Facing fiscal difficulties, the City of Baltimore has surplused the property, and is expected to sell it before the end of the year. Come find out more about the Mencken, the house, and the Friends’ plan to acquire and re-open the museum dedicated to the life and writing of America’s great man of letters.

Please join us at 10:00am, Monday, October 29th at 1524 Hollins Street, on the north side of Union Square:

  1. Take Lombard Street west from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard eight blocks to Stricker Street;

  2. Turn right at Stricker; and

  3. Turn left at next intersection at Hollins Street.

For more information, contact Michael Lester, Secretary, at 410.732.0500x1027, or at the above number, or by email: mlester@baltometro.org.

The Friends of the Mencken House is a nonprofit corporation founded to manage a museum in the house that influenced the life and writing of the most influential American writer in the 20th century, Henry Louis Mencken.