Mount Washington Improvement Association Records

The Mount Washington Improvement Association (MWIA) was founded in 1885. The neighborhood association represents a membership of Mount Washington neighborhood residents and is governed by a board of directors, and officers including: a president, vice president, second vice president, secretary, treasurer, and membership secretary. The Association also includes area captains representing physical areas within the neighborhood. Association committees, such as the Historic District Architecture Review Committee and others, work on various initiatives.

The MWIA has contributed to numerous neighborhood community issues such as zoning, road and traffic issues, projects for neighborhood parks and green spaces, recycling, parking, sanitation, snow removal, a neighborhood school and a swimming club, landscaping, and other issues. The association secured historical designation for areas of Mount Washington in the 1980s from Baltimore City’s Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, and the Mount Washington Mill Historic District in the neighborhood was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The Mount Washington Improvement Association (MWIA) is still active.

Information for this historical note was gathered from the Mount Washington Improvement Association website [https://mwia.org/], articles from “The Baltimore Sun,” and the National Register of Historic Places.