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Venice Tavern

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Venice Tavern is a dive bar in the Highlandtown neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The bar opened in 1933, when Frank Sr and Victoria DeSantis converted their basement and added an exterior staircase to access it from outside of their Conkling Street row house. The 3-story mansion above the bar was originally built in 1920 for William Schluderberg of C., a member of the William Schluderberg & Son meat packing family, and now houses a local and organic farmers market store.

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Venice Tavern
South Conkling Street, Baltimore Highlandtown

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South Conkling Street 339
21224 Baltimore, Highlandtown
Maryland, United States
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