Who owns meadowbrook swim club

These homes, some of which dated from the first decade of the nineteenth century, were razed to make room for the Jones Falls Expressway in the s.

This community, known as Washingtonville, predates Mount Washington by some forty years. The last of these Washingtonville homes stand at the intersection of Smith and Forge Avenues. The area where Meadowbrook now lies was once owned by William Hooper, proprietor of the Mill properties. To have a pool twelve feet in depth, the deck grade needed to be raised some six to eight feet because the bott om of the proposed pool was below the water table due to the proximity of the Jones Falls River.

The floor, or deck of the pool was poured in three slabs and is intact today except for replacement pours at the seams. The filtration system consisted of a gravity filled surge pit fourteen feet in depth from which water was then pumped through four massive steel sand and gravel filter tanks. This filtration system had a flow rate of gallons per minute. These four tanks were unloaded at the Mount Was hington train station.

A wooden dressing room and snack bar facility was built along the northern edge of the pool deck where the current shade canopy is by the shallow end. A cupola topped the center of this building which had five flag poles flying American flags for the opening in June of Early photos and members recollections tell of elaborate rose gardens lining the walk from the Kelly Avenue viaduct which split to go around a fountain. Lights atop steel poles which still stand on the east beach allowed for twilight and evening swims and entertaining.

The nocturnal big band nights eventually led neighbors along Mattfeldt Avenue and others to file a suit against Meadowbrook seeking an injunction against nuisance noise in Albert et al is the precedent case cited in Maryland for noise complaints. Meadowbrook Swim Club became a favorite spot for Baltimoreans to escape the summer heat.

The establishment of an electric street car line up Falls Road, across the confluence of the Jones Falls and Western Run, past Washingtonville and into the village of Mount Washington provided transportation to Meadowbrook for thousands of Baltimore families. The street car station, still standing, is part of the Mt. Washington Animal Hospital complex. Writer F. In May of , the elegant wooden structures built in went up in an unexplained fire.

The pool manager, Julius Ziegfeld told the Baltimore Sun that he was in the filter house preparing to turn on the water to the main pool when he noticed the fire. The buildings were quickly consumed only one week prior to opening for the season. Along with others, he performed many entertaining feats for the delight of weekend crowds.

Well, in Tucson its somewhat different. Ford, the team that practices at U Of A is the powerhouse rather than a club emerging from the suburbs like North Baltimore. In fact with the exception of Caitlin Leverenz that worked out at El Dorado Swim Club rather than Ford in Tucson Arizona most of the Olympic and National caliber swimmers are from Ford, a college program down to age group. Ford fixed up its pool about 3 years ago. The campus was closed to outside groups due to the pandemic but they had swimmers training their up until last February.

They also used Goucher college. As the world was shut down Coach Tom Hines had his swimmers back in the water the beginning of June and they are still training and competing. Loyola was already being used as a satellite for several years, and their pro group would practice alongside the college team with Bob Bowman and Brian Loeffler running some joint sessions. Wish they would sell so it could become an enjoyable place to go again. NBAC crashed into a pit of irrelevancy years ago.

Over saturated team with unattainable goals. Struggling to even scratch the surface of greatness for years now. It is extremely disappointing to me to read about this situation as North Baltimore Aquatic Club has established itself as a prime swim club and it was my group of swimmers, under Murray Stephens, that actually put our time and hearts and money into building that pool, we were the 1st group to swim laps around the fountain in the short end.

I do not understand this at all and think it is morally wrong. More from Mark Dziak See All. Notify of. I allow to use my email address and send notification about new comments and replies you can unsubscribe at any time.

Inline Feedbacks. Murray Stephens, age 46, purchased Meadowbrook in He has 25 years of experience in swimming pool management and coaching of competitive swim ming teams. Since , he has been employed as a teacher and swimming coach at Loyola Blakefield Prep School N. Charles Street in Baltimore. He has been extraordinarily successful in both positions.

At Loyola he has consistently had championship teams, including the National Prep School Championship team several years ago, and has produced many All-American swimmers. Stephens has produced two Olympic champions most recently World Record Holder Anita Nall , several national champions, and numerous top age group swimmers.

NBAC currently leases staff from Meadowbrook for its coaching and teaching needs. NBAC programs will continue to be part of the overall Meadowbrook operation. A 7, sq. The telephone number of the club is The site is located near the intersection of Northern Parkway and the Jones Falls Expressway, with excellent expressway access. The Meadowbrook pool is believed to be the finest 50 meter Olympic size competitive swimming facility in Maryland.

You have an outline and there is a 20 min. I will try and follow the outline. We melted still photos in with live action video. I included a brief budget of NBAC and fund raising printout. Each line represents a family with totals on the right hand columns. The numbers repre sent two consecutive seasons for fund raising for that family. We cut the names off to protect the lazy ones.

Meadowbrook was constructed in and operated as a public recreational swimming facility until From to it was under the same ownership and was managed as a private swim club.

In Meadowbrook was acquired from Mr. Fred Stieber, who, at age 80, was unable to keep up. The above outline takes you through the video. At NBAC we have kids and keep the groups small.