1000 residences, three small business districts; Cold Spring Lane, Falls Road and the Village of Cross Keys comprise a neighborhood settled within a rolling landscape of Maryland piedmont forest.

Baltimore Country Club is a private club with extensive open space in the neighborhood and is therefore used as a park. Another park Stony Run forms a portion of the eastern edge of the neighborhood. An historic Water tower on a geologic highpoint in the neighborhood, owned by the City of Baltimore Department of Public Works, is a central landmark. Several of the educational institutions listed below have open spaces that are used as parks.

Roland Park Company was formed to purchase the Woodlawn and Oakland estates in 1891. Land plan was initiated in 1892 and backed by British investors. Originally part of Baltimore County and incorporated into the City of Baltimore 1918. Plat one was designed by Kessler. Subsequent plats were designed Frederick Law Olmsted and/or Olmsted Brothers utilizing picturesque planning principles of the time.