The Village Concept

In 1990 New Shiloh Baptist Church moved to its present location at 2100 North Monroe Street.  At that time the newly constructed church took up a 1 square block boardered on the south by Clifton Avenue, to the north by Windsor Avenue, on the east Monroe Street and to the west Payson Street.  The new church was surrounded by vacant residential row houses, lots and commercial properties including the Baltimore Coliseum, the Good Humor Ice Cream factory, State Farm Insurance claim facility and the Cloverland Dairy.

It was the visionary actions of the late Harold A. Carter, Sr, Pastor of New Shiloh Baptist Church, who saw the potential of the properties and the importance of their revitalization to the Church and the community.  Rev Carter assembled a group of church members, government officials, community members and private development groups to come up with a strategy that would transform the area surrounding the church to a vibrant and essential residential and commercial environment.  Rev. Carter saw the church as the center of the Village that would create support facilities for the church’s many ministries, new parking for its members, limination of blight around the church, creation of hundreds of units of affordable housing, health care facilities and community services all within a 3 block radius of the church.  With this bold vision the New Shiloh Village was born.  Rev. Carter then made the bold and somewhat controversial move to purchase several abandoned homes, and subsequently the Cloverland Dairy Bottling facility.  The acquisition of the dairy properties and a laundry company building led to the immediate creation of new secure parking for the church members and the renovation of an office building to house the New Shiloh Child Development Center.  The renovation of the office space attracted tenants who supplied much needed not for profit child care and community services to the Village and to the Southern Mondawmin Community.