713 South Ann Street is another example of a  wood frame home in the Fell's Point Neighborhood. The houses is associated with a larger row, spanning from 711-715 South Ann Street. The house was built around 1800 and the 1804 City Directory lists Patrick Travis, a sea-captain, as the resident of the house at the time.[45] The earliest deed located for the property is from 1851 and shows the house being sold to Anna Maria White from John J. Roose on November 28th of that year. It  is 2 and a half stories tall, with a wood frame and clapboard covering. The original clapboards have been replaced with newer boards from the mid to late nineteenth century.[46] The original facade was also relatively simple with a wood cornice, brick steps, windows with wood lintels, and one over one window lights.[47] Though the house has not had shutters on the windows for several decades, early photographs of the same block row show houses with shutters.(figure 16) There was one dormer window with one pediment above the second story. The door was pedimented with a rectangular overdoor and no secondary entrance. A flat cellar door provided cellar access.[48] After it was covered by formstone for a number of years, owner and construction expert Glenn Henley restored the old wood facade in 2001.[49] He replaced the one over one window lights with six over six lights, but retained most of the other original facade features. The house is currently owned by Jeffrey and Janyth Andrews and is in good condition following Glenn Henley's restoration a few years ago.

717 South Ann Street

717 - 719 South Ann Street (2006)

            717 South Ann Street is a larger wooden structure along South Ann Street which was restored to its original appearance in the late twentieth century. The house was built between 1800 and 1804 by a shipwright named Edward Dickenson[50] who leased the land from John Lee and Joshua Inloes in 1795.[51] Originally listed as 26 Ann Street in the 1802 City Directory, the house was built on a larger lot, which was divided into three 20x80 parcels in 1795 creating the lots currently occupied by 717, 719 and 721.[52] The building was two and a half stories tall with a wood frame and beaded edge board.  The beaded edge board was replaced with a German style siding following the Civil War.  The house has 3 bays, wood steps, one dormer, with a masonry foundation and no shutters. It is possible that the house had shutters at one point. The cornice on the house is original; however, the dormer is likely a later addition.[53]  While the window lights are currently six over six and also date from after the Civil War.[54] The windows were likely one over one originally, as was the case with other similar houses in the area. The house is associated with its neighbor at 719 South Ann Street. The current owners of the house are Raymond Blank and Robert Rose. The house is in good condition after its restoration, and can be easily recognized because of the bright pink paint currently covering the exterior woodwork and the contrasting bright blue door.

719 South Ann Street

            719 South Ann Street is another larger wood frame house on South Ann Street, which compliments its neighbor, 717. The house was built between 1800 and 1804 by James Wheedon who leased the land from John Lee and Joshua Inloes in 1795.[55] The 1804 City Directory lists Richard Bishop, a sea captain, as the resident of 719.[56] Originally 24 Ann Street, the house was built on the middle 20x80 lot south of 717 and is two and a half stories, with a masonry foundation and covered with beaded edge board.[57] The beaded edge board on the west fascade has been replaced with a German style of wood siding dating to the time of the Civil War; however, the original boards are still in place on the North side of the house.(figure 21)[58] The roof is covered by asphalt shingles, which are not original; however, it maintains the simple facade with no shutters (though it may have had shutters in an earlier period), wood entry stairs, the original wood bay cornice (figure 22), no cellar doors, and no dormers.[59] The window lights were originally one over one; however, they were changed to six over six following the restoration of the house by Myrna Poiter in 1985.[60] The house was originally one room deep and maintains the original wooden floorboards in the kitchen and on the second floor, as well as the winder staircase leading to the third level.[61] The house is currently owned by Jacques and Donna Skeen-Vieyra and is in good condition following its restoration. Much like its neighbor 717, the house is painted a distinctive color, yellow, with a bright pink door, so it stands out on Ann Street.

The only wooden house visible on Bond Street

809 South Bond Street (figures 24-26)

            809 South Bond Street is another simple wooden house of this era.  The house is a two and a half story building with a pitched roof and a central dormer window. The house is two bays wide, with six over six lights, which were most likely one over one originally. The beaded edge board is relatively new, but likely a replica of the siding which existed previously.[62] The house also has a set of shutters on the first floor window, which would not be original to the house, and the other windows have no shutters. Cellar access is available at street level. (figure 26) Deed research located the owners as far back as 1851, when the property was sold to John Fernandis and Maria Locke. The house is in good condition and currently owned by Karen Kahl. It is the only wooden house visible on Bond Street and is painted a light shade of gray with a maroon door and shutters.

707 South Regester Street

            707 South Regester Street is one of the few remaining wooden houses where an owner has done a great deal of research into its history as well as the work to restore the house. The house was built between 1760 and 1780 when Regester was known as Argyle Alley. Deed research tracing back to 1814 shows the house was owned by Joseph Brown until he sold it to Issac Stansbury in October of 1814. It was originally free standing and may have been an outbuilding for a main house fronting on Ann Street.[63] It is two and a half stories with wide cypress beaded edge boards.[64] The house had a chimney with fireplaces in the living room on the first floor and the bedroom on the second floor. The roof was originally hand shaved shingles and there were no dormers.[65] The house lies on a brick foundation with a basement underneath. (figure 30)[66] The first and second floor are divided by a single board partition, and the house maintains its original winding staircase between the two levels.[67] When Reverend Robert L. Young took on the restoration of the house in 1972, he found many original hand cut nails, which he reused in the rehabilitation. If Young had to replace a historic feature, he searched diligently for one that matched in both age and material.[68] What Young found on the interior of the house was also telling. He found evidence of the original plaster in a few places, as well as the original blue paint and chair rails around the rooms.[69] The interior woodwork has beading and backband molding typical of its era.[70] Aside from a careful examination of the house and a report on his rehabilitation efforts, Young also completed extensive deed research, finding all of the home owners dating back to Issac Stansbury in 1814.[71] Reverend Young's work on the house was an important step in preserving this house. The building is currently owned by James Austin and can be distinguished by its bright red paint and green shutters and the unpainted cypress boards on the north and south sides of the house. (figure 29) This house is also significant because it is an alleyhouse, which is another vanishing breed in the city of Baltimore.

612 & 614 South Wolfe Street

612 - 614 South Wolfe Street (before)

            612 and 614 South Wolfe Street are perhaps the best known wooden houses in the Fell's Point area as they are two of the smallest wooden homes remaining. Ann Bond Fell Giles, widowed wife of Edward Fell, inherited both properties following the death of her first husband. After she remarried and had several more children, she passed away and the Wolfe Street properties ended up in the hands of her youngest daughter Susannah Giles Moore and her husband Phillip Moore until Phillip died  bankrupt and in debt in 1833 or 1834.[72] The houses were built somewhere between February of 1798 and February of 1801, though likely closer to the latter.[73] 612 (figure 33) and 610 South Wolfe Street were connected as properties in the earliest days, and were rented to  Edward Callow in 1801. (This lease agreement indicates that the property was already built in 1801.) 614 South Wolfe Street (figure 34) was also rented out by the owners to Patrick Morrison.[74] The houses are commonly known as the "Two Sisters Houses" after sisters Mary Leeke and Eleanor Marine Dashiell, the previous owners and descendants of the Leeke, Marine, and Dashiell families. The houses are sometimes also referred to as the "Flounder Houses."[75]

            The houses are each two bays and one and a half stories, totaling 192 square feet of living space.[76] Originally part of a larger block of seven small houses, the Wolfe street houses represent the smallest type of wooden dwelling built in the eighteenth century. They were likely built as speculative housing with the intention of building something larger at a later point, thus their continued existence is even more phenomenal.[77]  Each house has several sets of windows, including dormers on the loft level, in the front and rear to allow for light and air circulation.[78] The house at 604 South Wolfe Street, now covered with vinyl siding, and the former 602 South Wolfe Street, which was demolished in the past ten years, were similar wooden houses, part of the larger row of seven stretching from 602 to 614 South Wolfe Street. (figures 38 & 39)[79] The exterior of each house is milled weatherboard with wooden shingles covering the roofs, the original cornice (figure 37), and a single door for entry. (figure 35)[80] The current wooden shingles on the roof are not original, though the earliest shingles on the house would have been wooden.[81] Unlike some of the other old wooden houses, these two have shutters on the windows, which also appear in historic photographs. (figures 31, 32, 36 & 39) The interiors had handsplit lath and plaster covering the walls, with fireplaces for heating and cooking, angled cupboards, corner winding stairs, chair rails, and wainscoting, some of which may have been added in a later period.[82] Exposed timbers revealed that much of the bark remained on the beams when they were used in the construction.[83]

             Later, additions were built on the back side of each house, nearly doubling the total square footage of the houses.[84] The houses, like many of the others were covered by brick or formstone for some time, but the original wood siding has been restored since that time. The houses were designated Baltimore City Landmarks in 1987 and are currently owned by the Preservation Society.[85] Since these  are some of the oldest of the wooden houses in Baltimore and they are unoccupied, the houses at 612 and 614 South Wolfe Street are in need of the most work. Though stabilization efforts have been made, the rear addition to 612 has collapsed and the roofs are also in need of repair. The houses can be identified by their height, as two of the smallest one the street and their olive green paint.