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Mount Royal Station

B & O history

Construction

Designed by architect E. Baltimore Francis Baldwin in a mixture of Romanesque modified and the Renaissance style, the station was built in 1896 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B & O) as part of his project to improve Baltimore Belt Line for passengers from New York service. Located at the north end of the B & O Howard Street Tunnel, the station was built with granite trimmed Maryland Indiana limestone with a red tile roof and reference point 150 feet (46 m) clock tower. The interior of the station appears marble mosaic floors, a fireplace, and rocking chairs. It opened on September 1, 1896. "It was considered," said Baltimore Sun ", the grandest station in the country built and used by a single railroad. "This assessment was shared by the historian Lucius Beebe Railroad, who proclaimed the Monte Real" a of the famous railway stations in the world, a reputation ranking with Euston station in London, the scene of many outputs of Sherlock Holmes', Gare du Nord in Paris, and the feudal stronghold of the Pennsylvania Railroad Broad Street, Philadelphia. "

Train operations

The indoor season in 1958

The B & O main line pioneering the first U.S. railroad electrification system in the Mount Royal station when it opened in 1896, the installation of a third lane air station trainshed tunnel and its approaches.

The most famous train station associated with the Mont-Royal is royal blue, which ran between Washington, DC and New York. Luminaires with the B & O station over the years include U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, along with Western showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody, singer Enrico Caruso, and celebrated director Arturo Toscanini, private Pullman car which was parked on a siding for his appearances in the near Lyric Theatre. After the B & O passenger service to suspend New York on April 26, 1958, Mount Royal Station became the eastern terminus of passenger trains B & O. It was one of the thirteen buildings Baltimore selected in 1959 for the Historic American Buildings Survey. On June 30, 1961, the B & O has consolidated its passenger train service Baltimore Camden Station, definitive end to their use of Mount Royal station after 65 years of operation.

Arts conversion study

The station building empty train, train shed, and about 3 acres were later acquired by the College Maryland Institute of Art (MICA) in 1964 for $ 250,000. The amount of the sale was far below market value and represents "a major donation from the B & O," said MICA officials. After $ 1 MICA million was raised for the project, the station was developed for use by art students in 1967 at a final cost of $ 18 per square foot of building space, which was considerably less than the estimated cost of building a new $ 25 per square foot. living areas of the former B & O baggage and the platform is attached for use as studies and outside the station and clock tower remain. The original 800 ft. (240 m) long iron remains more active trainshed tracks of CSX Transportation main line. This adaptive reuse of the Mount Royal Station preserved as an example of industrial architecture of late 19 th century, its use for a purpose other than the original. Design work for the conversion was made by Richard Donkervoet Cochran, Stephenson and Donkervoet. Donkervoet remains the largest part of the exterior appearance of the building as possible and also retains much of its inner character, including vaulted ceilings, columns and tiled floor. Architectural Forum recognized the renovation of the station of "sensitivity later architects in the initial design of the original, "and Margaret Mead, in a lecture given at the station, said the renewal" is perhaps the most beautiful in the western world that something else was done. "

CSX rail transport in 2009 under the trainshed

December 8 1976, the station was added to the register of National Historic Landmarks, giving full protection as a historic site. Mount Royal Station train shed, one of the countries last structures was renovated in the year due to advanced deterioration of the materials shed 1985. In 1992, the Baltimore Chapter AIA honored the Maryland Institute of Architects Cochran, Stevenson and Donkervoet with a 25 Year Award for Excellence in Design for reuse lasting significance adaptive old train depot.

Between 20052007, MICA achieved in two stages, 6.3 million U.S. dollars renovating the building by the architectural firm by Grieves, Worrall, Wright and Oatnick, Inc. The first phase, the interior renovation was completed in autumn 2005: interior finishes such as tile floor, marble columns, tin ceilings, wood base, and adjustment were cleaned and restored. Classrooms also increased and the quality and quantity study space. The second phase, the restoration of the exterior of the building and train shed, completed in spring 2007, stone and wood have been cleaned, repaired and repainted, restored slate canopy, and fixed the drainage system, clerestory and structural timbers in the train shed was replaced and the steel roof structure was reinforced. In consistent with the landscape and the pedestrian streets MICA created along Mount Royal Avenue, a new plaza with benches, bike racks, shrubs and ornamental grasses and land cover has been added.

The construction of the station, and is now called for MICA, houses the university departments of sculpture fiber and interdisciplinary classrooms in 3-D, and the Rinehart School of Sculpture and higher education.

See also

Baltimore Terminal Subdivision

Mount Clare Shops

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Service Parks. 15.04.2008. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.

^ "Mount Royal Station and Trainshed." National Historic Landmark summary listing. Service National Parks. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1406&ResourceType=Structure. Retrieved on 06/17/2008.

Ab ^ John F. Stover, History the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1987 (ISBN 0-911198-81-4), pp 172 176.

^ Ab Timothy Jacobs, The history of Baltimore and Ohio. New York: Books of the Red Crescent, 1989 (ISBN 0-517-67603-6), p. 68.

^ Ab Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 134. ISBN 0-471-14389-8.

^ Salamon, Stephen J.; Oroszi, P. David, and Ori, David P. (1993). Baltimore and Ohio: Reflections of the Dome Capitol. Silver Spring, Maryland: Old Line Graphics. 24 pp. ISBN 1-879314-08-8.

Abc ^ Charles Flores V., "Closed Doors Monte Real, but Clock Tower will run ", The Baltimore Sun, July 1, 1961.

^ Beebe, Lucius and Clegg, Charles (1993). The Trains We Rode. New York: Promontory Press. p. 111. ISBN 0883940817.

Ab ^ Binney, Marcus (1979). Railway Architecture. Save Britain's Heritage (Association). 226 pp. ISBN 0-442-20393-4.

^ Frank PL Somerville (September 22, 1964). "Institute of buying B & O station." The Evening Sun of Baltimore.

^ Harwood, Jr., Herbert H. (1990). Royal Blue Line. Sykesville, Md.: Greenberg Publishing. 171 pp. ISBN 0-89778-155-4.

^ Dorsey, John, Dilts, James D. (1981). A guide Baltimore Architecture (Second ed.). Centreville, Ryland: Post Tidewater. 180,181 pp. ISBN 0-87033-272-4.

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