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Camden Yards / B&O Railroad Warehouse

 

     photography: Rachel H. Sangree

 

Structural Form:

baseball park; iron/steel/heavy timber framing with masonry facade (warehouse); steel frame with masonry facade (ballpark)

Engineer / Architect:

warehouse: Baldwin and Pennington

park: Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum

Year Built: 1898-1905; 1992
Location:

Bounded by Howard and Russell Streets on the east and west, and Camden and Lee Streets on the north and south

Baltimore, MD  [Standalone Map]

Historical Details:

The reason for the unique geometry of this

warehouse was that it had to be squeezed

between the railroad yards on the east and S. Eutaw Street on the west.

Technical Details:

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References:

J. Dorsey and J.D. Dilts, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Third Edition), Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD (1997), p. 229.

 

M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 171.

 

Historic American Engineering Record, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Camden Station, Warehouse Office Building.  HABS No. MD-326-A. Retrieved March 15, 2005 from:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@FIELD(DOCID+@BAND(@lit(MD0633)))