President Street Station
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| President Street Station | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1850 |
| Added to NRHP: | 1992 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 92001229 |
The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland is a former train station. It is the oldest surviving big city railroad terminal in the United States.[1]
[edit] History
The station was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B) in 1850 as their terminus.[2] A track ran along Pratt Street to connect PW&B trains arriving from Philadelphia with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) trains at Camden Station.
The station was involved in the Baltimore riot of 1861, when Massachusetts troops bound for Washington, D.C. were marching to the B&O's Camden Station ten blocks west and were attacked by an angry mob.[3]
President Street station was largely replaced in 1873 by Pennsylvania Station, but continued to have some passenger train usage until 1911.[4] It was later used as a freight station and then as a warehouse, before abandonment in 1970. The station was restored and reopened in 1997 as the Baltimore Civil War Museum. The museum closed, however, in 2007.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Gunts, Edward. "Train station is on track to preservation", Baltimore Sun, 2008-01-14. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ a b "Allegheny Observer" (March 2008). Railpace Newsmagazine: 43.
- ^ Wagenblast, Bernie (2002-12-24). Re: (rshsdepot) President Street Station (Baltimore), MD. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ Herbert W. Harwood, Jr., Impossible Challenge. Baltimore, Md.: Bernard, Roberts and Co., 1979 (ISBN 0-934118-17-5), p. 416.
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