biquitous in Baltimore since the 1930s, typical of the city’s row houses. As with other kinds of faux finishes, . Some types of simulated stone, eventually leading to spalling, cracking, and potential structural damage. For these and other reasons, . Baltimore itself considered a citywide ban about 15 years ago. (Most if not all of the original makers are long gone, so the Formstone habit has died out.) Native son John Waters, writer and director of the 1988 film "Hairspray," famously called it In a newsletter for the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions, Walter W. Gallas wrote that, in some quarters, there’s a feeling that “it is so much a part of the Baltimore scene, it would be a shame to see it all disappear.”
