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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

4 years

I created a Facebook page for my modeling. Visit and follow the Patapsco Falls Division.

Patapsco Falls Division. 1,048 likes · 84 talking about this. Documenting the construction of an HO scale east coast model railroad. Modeling by Matt Hankins.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Sunday evening modeling update.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

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4 months

Saturday afternoon modeling update. Still a long way to go.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 month

Baltimore is a beautiful city full of incredible, hard working & creative people. Our💔are broken this morning and the impact of this day will be felt for many more to come. Y'all should come visit. See our beautiful harbor and sites. We will need you here with us to help us heal

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

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3 years

In honor of the Cleveland Guardians: If your favorite sportsball team was renamed in honor of the significant structure in their city, what would that name be?

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

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6 months

Recent scratchbuild. Baltimore Porchfront Rowhouse. 1/87 Scale. I have been trying these little shadowboxes. They allow for some modeling projects when the layout space doesn't allow for the model.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Is it possible that the backs of Baltimore rowhouses are even better than the fronts?

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 months

Sunday evening modeling update.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

This block of Harlem Avenue may have some of the most impressive brick masonry in Baltimore.

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@everylot_balt

2 years

821 HARLEM AVE

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7 months

Love a Baltimore City corner bar!

Baltimore Heritage

@bmoreheritage

7 months

Baltimore’s Corner Bars are historic neighborhood institutions and you can find them all over the city! We are thrilled to be joined by Rachel Donaldson, @BMIatWork curator, to talk about the upcoming Neighborhood Corner Bar exhibit! #fiveminhist #bmore

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

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1 year

Baltimore commercial street. 1/87 scale. Scratchbuilt.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Hey, Baltimore! May is Preservation Month. If you are itching to get outside and explore our historic built environment, here is a handy map that I made to offer some info on some sites!

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@restocarp

10 months

Rowhouse in a box.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Start of a Baltimore alley diorama. 1/87 scale. Scratchbuilt. Brick sheet by Monster Model Works. Windows and doors from Tichy Train Group.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Maryland: "Make sure you pre-register for the vaccine!" Also Maryland: "You're not currently eligible to receive a vaccine, so you can't really "pre-register". What we need you to do is register when you are eligible to register. We just said 'pre', because it sounds good."

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Really struggling recently to find inspiration and focus at the modeling bench. Photo of a scratchbuilt bay window from last February.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

10 months

It has been 3 years since I finished the Amoco station based on a prototype in west Baltimore.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

The block of rowhouses grows...

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Sooooo....in lieu of the delayed/postponed/whenever Baltimore festivals, maybe we should just have one anyway...what if we picked a mid summer weekend/week/coupla weeks and decorated our houses. No organizations. No prizes. No corporations. Just Art. Bmore style.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 month

Rowhouse turret. Scratchbuilt from styrene. 1/87 scale. Work in progress.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 month

“Out of Reach” I have been picking away at this Easter diorama for a year.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

@mickwatson65 @GrimArtGroup Beautiful work! Here is one of mine:

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

@GrimArtGroup @DavidOwenArt Have a good weekend, Grimmy! A work in progress for your enjoyment!

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

DPW currently has an advertisement for CDL drivers. $14.00/hour, no benefits. You can find jobs in the area with benefits and starting in the low $20s/hour. No wonder they don't have people.

Eric Costello

@CouncilmanETC

2 years

UPDATE - Request for Resumption of Weekly Curbside Recycling Collection DPW responded to the City Council concerns, outlining steps they are taking to better position agency to resume weekly service. Steps outlined, no firm date in July 20 letter:

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

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10 months

I feel like it needs to be mentioned, that the Jones Falls was an open sewer. And daylighting it, which would be great, would be incomplete without a new system for Baltimore's waste and storm water management.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 months

This model of a corner bar is available in an auction to benefit @BMIatWork . Check it out and some other great offerings. If you want to see it in person, get tickets to the event :

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

5 months

Merry Christmas from the Patapsco Falls Division!

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Flashback to this date in 2017 and my newly completed model of a short block of Baltimore rowhouses.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Light Street Pier, Baltimore

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

If I could bottle a moment, it would be a spring evening in Baltimore.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Baltimore Monuments.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

11 months

Dodged raindrops today to show this guy to it’s inspiration. Still more weathering, landscaping, detailing, yada, yada, to do. @papishampden

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

11 months

Sunday evening modeling update. Work in progress. 1/87 scale. Scratchbuilt.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 month

The office at the Poole and Hunt machine shop, Woodberry, Baltimore. My interpretation. HO scale.

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@restocarp

2 years

@GrimArtGroup @untypicalboro I hadn’t heard of #HouseFossil before. Very descriptive.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 years

This is such a great video. Studley toolbox, John Donne, the Golden Mean, a love of the beauty of tools. A Saturday gift from @donttrythis . And someday I too will build my version of Studley’s masterpiece.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Sunday modeling update.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

It is surprising how few real waterfront dining options there are in Baltimore City, when you think about it.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

5 years

Maryland’s 7th Congressional District is far from perfect, but it is a wonderful place to live and raise a family. Please join me in posting photos of what makes the Seventh great.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 years

@TheCravenOne @donttrythis But how did the fish fare?

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Flashback Friday! 😉

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Further P on the WIP.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

5 years

Hot Take: Artscape would be a lot more pleasant if it were based in Druid Hill Park.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 months

January Bay. 1/87 scale. Scratchbuilt. WIP

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

1. Train our residents in the trades. 2. Use Baltimore's housing stock as the classrooms. 3. Partner with local banking institutions to create legitimate low interest loans programs to allow houses to be sold at or below cost. Cont'd

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

I am struggling with this. As a preservationist, I want to see historic buildings saved, but as a city resident I want to see growth and improvement. An all or nothing approach to Historic Preservation may get us what we have seen far too much of lately. Nothing.

Baltimore Brew

@BaltimoreBrew

1 year

One of the "Superblock" buildings on West Fayette St. that CHAP today said have historic and cultural significance and should not be torn down. The developers will have another chance to come back and argue economic hardship at a second hearing.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Work in progress.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

8 months

Throwback to a small scratchbuilt 1/87 scale Baltimore alley garage from September 2020.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

7 months

#PortfolioDay

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

So many wanted to see this building be a success. Be an anchor for neighborhood revitalization. Be a beautiful jewel for Lafayette Square. And yet now it is lost.💔

Justin Fenton

@justin_fenton

1 year

📸 by @AllBrand_Newson

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1 month

@paulmgardner Automobile traffic aside, imagine Baltimore harbor without ANY ship traffic for the foreseeable future. Devastating.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Baltimore is lucky to have @thebrokenplate 🧂📦

GMA3: What You Need To Know

@ABCGMA3

1 year

Juliet decorates salt boxes and phone booths to "leave a little sunshine" in her community in Baltimore. #GMA3

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Old Bay.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 months

@Burgersub Close Falls Rd from the 28th st bridge to the Howard st bridge and make it a park, with the Streetcar Museum, a restored roundhouse converted to gallery/event/dining space, views of the Jones Falls, bike and walking paths, nice landscaping, pleasant lighting, evening concerts..🤷‍♂️

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 years

All you Baltimore folks enjoying the Census photos are really going to flip when you can see aerial shots of the city from the 1920s onward.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Is everyone’s relatively new Baltimore City recycling can’s lid cracking. Mine did and multiple others on our block. 😐

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Davis Paint. Made in Baltimore.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Interesting factoid: the large windows are built “backwards.” The horizontal curved muntins run fully from side to side while the verticals are short pieces in between. The opposite of traditional sash joinery. This adds strength, built like the ribs in the hull of a ship.

Michael R. Kessler

@MikeKesslerPhD

1 year

I found this gorgeous hideaway on the @JohnsHopkins campus, the Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

6 years

@testedcom Very glad to see train modelers getting some @tested love. I am currently working on a module for my Maryland based modular club , also HO scale. This model of a group of Baltimore rowhouse will be part of it:

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

10 months

A little, wonky shanty. A quick, one day build from some siding bits in the scrap box. I somehow managed to loose the small window, so adjustments were made. 🫤

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Saturday evening modeling update. HO scale. WIP

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

Hear me out: Patapsco Beach🌴

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Sunday evening progress report.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

A bit of a flashback for #WordArtWeekend @GrimArtGroup

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

5 years

It's #PreservationMonth !! We begin 31 days of historic Baltimore buildings with the Phoenix Shot Tower, once the tallest building in the United States and an example of one of the early, grassroots preservation efforts in Baltimore. Completed 1828. Tours: @CarrollMuseums

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 years

1953 Aerial view of Druid Hill Park, Reservoir Hill, Remington, Hampden, JHU/Homewood, Charles Village, Greenmount, Midtown. Source: @HopkinsRetro

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@restocarp

1 year

@sweatnap

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

10 months

Sorry. I find this style of architecture tremendously uninspiring... And I would prefer to see the historic structures preserved in some manner, as it is an historic district.

Baltimore Fishbowl

@baltfishbowl

10 months

Okoro Development has unveiled its plans for a six-story, $8.5 million apartment building at Park Avenue and Lexington Street.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

11 months

Miles to go…. Work in progress. Scratchbuilt. 1/87 scale.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

@brandon_weigel It's the best hat in professional sports.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

5 years

Baltimore Twitter: Setting aside all realities of finances and personal responsibility, if you could purchase and renovate/restore one city building, which one would it be and what would you make it into?

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Thousands of rowhouses that we pass daily. But stop and admire the detail. The brick cornice and how it meets the wood cornice. The corbel extending the second floor. The color of the local stone. The asymmetry of the windows. Peep the deets, Baltimore!

every lot baltimore

@everylot_balt

3 years

3238 RAVENWOOD AVE

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

11 months

Saturday evening modeling update. Rear additions. 🔨🔨WIP

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

9 months

More beautiful Baltimore rowhouses. So much rowhouse variety in this city. Makes for much inspiration! 😉

Baltimore Heritage

@bmoreheritage

9 months

Today's Saturday stunner: a #nofilter photo of rowhouses on Tyson St! #baltimore #bmoreisbeautiful #bmoreheritage

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Sunday evening modeling update.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

For all of the Gen Xers out there: The 1980 Sears WishBook. This was the time of the year that we spent slowly flipping the pages and contemplating gift wrapped dreams. Ah, to be a kid again.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 years

You go, Bmore! Thank you to our young citizens for showing what leadership looks like!

Louis Krauss

@louiskraussnews

4 years

This might be larger than Baltimore’s march on Saturday...

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

11 months

Like many others, I find this tweet to be remarkably inaccurate and disappointing.

West Baltimore Builds

@WestBaltBuilds

11 months

Here's what Howard Street looked like last Friday at 3pm. A gorgeous day in June... THIS is what we believe light rail did to a once-thriving commercial corridor. Smart Line is a better way: Governor's announcement today at the MARC Station at 3pm.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

11 months

Goodbye to Hendler Creamery. A🧵 People often ask me what my favorite historic Baltimore building is and I always reply that it is hard to pick just one. But this one has always been a contender. (📷from @jewishmuseummd )

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Some personal news….

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

I am beginning to believe that it is only a matter of time before we get some version of this. The chorus has started to spread to the voices that have the power to make this happen.

Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, News Guild

@DanRodricks

3 years

More on knocking down the JFX and making a new city boulevard with open canals

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

4 years

@mjpost 1.The Jones Falls was and is an open sewer. It has not been bucolic for a very long time. It was nasty and often flooded. Uncovering it, which I favor, would necessitate solving that systemic, complicated and expensive problem.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Spotted in Patapsco Falls, @thebrokenplate #saltbox #winteriscoming

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

5 years

Tearing down Baltimore's Jones Falls Expressway (I-83). A Thread.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 months

Sunday evening modeling update. Work in progress. 1/87 scale

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

1 year

A Baltimore legend, not well known outside of the world of traditional furniture making.

Proven Winner

@theprovenwinner

1 year

I have an inexplicable lull in my work schedule, so here's a thread about Jennie Alexander: Baltimore divorce lawyer, jazz pianist, and the creator of one of the greatest chairs in American history.

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1 year

>Whispers< "Turn around"

every lot baltimore

@everylot_balt

1 year

549 PRESSTMAN ST

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

6 months

@jahorne Baltimore inspires me. The people, the buildings, the history. I enjoy exploring it, learning about it and creating within it.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Ellicott Brothers Hardware. HO Scale. Scratchbuilt by Matt Hankins.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

10 months

Happy Fourth of July, from the Patapsco Falls Division!

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

10 months

Just so that everyone is clear. "Find a different web designer." "Find a different baker." "Find a different dress maker." is the same as "Find a different lunch counter." "Find a different bus seat." "Find a different water fountain." Discrimination is discrimination. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

5 years

The Maryland transit policy is demolition by neglect. Don’t improve it and then claim no one uses it.

Adam Tuss

@AdamTuss

5 years

Md Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn - for years we have thought people were going to get tired of traffic and move to transit. But it hasn’t happened. @nbcwashington

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3 years

WIP

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

This is not on DPW. This is on the Mayor and City Council to adjust wages and benefits to be competitive in this economy. I have had enough conversations with members of the CC to know that they are aware, but there needs to be action.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

2 years

Pulled down some ivy and honeysuckle vines.Bagged it all up. Drove over to Sisson Street and apparently there is a bag maximum. Nothing that I can find on the @BaltimoreDPW website. So back home to unload and do 2 trips.Not the end of the world but why is everything here so hard?

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

Soooo, Baltimore City Schools changed student passwords and they won’t have access until after school starts next week. Summer assignments, college essay drafts, forms saved on the portal? No access. 🤦‍♂️

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

The demolition of the Boss Kelly house/row is a devastating blow for Baltimore and Poppleton, but it demonstrates a lack of focus and substantive effort from the city's preservation community in West Baltimore. 1/2

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

@restocarp

3 years

A steamy summer Saturday in Woodberry on the Patapsco Falls Division. A young fellow beating the summer heat down at the millrace and a motorist waiting for a midday freight to clear the crossing so that they can get on with their Saturday errands.

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Matt Hankins🔨🔎🏠

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3 years

Sunday evening modeling update.

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