Reservoir Hill is a historic neighborhood in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

It is bounded by Druid Park Lake Drive, the Jones Falls Expressway, North Avenue (U.S. Route 1), and McCulloh Street.

Reservoir Hill has some of the best examples of Victorian, Italianate and Second Empire style homes in Baltimore.

The housing stock features a wide variety of nineteenth century architecture, including ornate Victorian mansions overlooking the Druid Hill Park, brownstones, and the smaller brick rowhouses that characterize much of Baltimore.

Recent restoration efforts have begun to revert the neighborhood back to its prominent stature.

A portion of this has been declared the Mount Royal Terrace Historic District by Baltimore City.

Writer Gertrude Stein lived in Reservoir Hill for a short period of time on Linden Avenue, near Whitelock Street in what is also called the David Bachrach House.

[4] Pulitzer Prize winning poet Karl Shapiro was born on Brooks Lane in Reservoir Hill.

Chambers lived on Mount Royal Terrace just prior to his defection from the Soviet Underground in April 1938.

[6][7] The Baltimore City directories from Enoch Pratt Free Library indicate that many residents of Mt.

[8] The Baltimore City directories also show that many residents were employees of blue collar companies.

The historical Baltimore Sun contains a vast amount of information regarding residents of Mt.