[3] Bolton Hill is a largely residential neighborhood with three-story row houses with red brick, white marble steps, and high ceilings.

[3] Many significant residents have lived in the neighborhood, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Woodrow Wilson, the Cone sisters, and Florence Rena Sabin.

[6] Bolton Hill is within easy walking distance of the State Center station on the Baltimore Metro Subway and the Mt.

Early row houses featured plain brick facades with decorative cornices, door surrounds, and window lintels.

The Mount Royal Improvement Association (MRIA) was established in 1928 and pushed for covenants against African-American residency in the neighborhood.

[6] In the early 1960s, federal urban renewal funds were used to demolish houses on the western edge of the neighborhood, which were considered "slums" and targeted for "stabilization."

[10] Beginning in 2012, popular Netflix series House of Cards filmed the Underwoods' home based in Bolton Hill to represent their Washington, D.C.