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Mount Royal Station
B&O history
Construction
Designed by Baltimore architect E. Francis Baldwin in a blend of modified Romanesque and Renaissance styling, the station was constructed in 1896 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) as part of its massive Baltimore Belt Line improvement project for its New York passenger service. Located at the north end of the B&O’s Howard Street tunnel, the station was built of Maryland granite trimmed with Indiana limestone, with a red tile roof and landmark 150-foot (46 m) clocktower. The station’s interior featured marble mosaic flooring, a fireplace, and rocking chairs. It opened to the public on September 1, 1896. “It was considered,” said the Baltimore Sun, “the most splendid station in the country built and used by only one railroad.” That evaluation was shared by railroad historian Lucius Beebe, who proclaimed Mount Royal “one of the celebrated railroad stations of the world, ranking in renown with Euston Station, London, scene of so many of Sherlock Holmes’ departures, the Gare du Nord in Paris, and the feudal fortress of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Broad Street, Philadelphia.”
Train operations
The station’s interior in 1958
The B&O pioneered the first U.S. mainline railway electrification system at Mount Royal Station when it opened in 1896, installing an overhead third rail system in the station’s trainshed and its tunnel approaches.
The most famous train associated with the Mount Royal Station was the Royal Blue, which ran between Washington, D.C. and New York City. Luminaries using the B&O’s 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 conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose private Pullman car was parked on a siding during his appearances at the nearby Lyric Theatre. After the B&O discontinued passenger service to New York on April 26, 1958, Mount Royal Station became the eastern terminus of B&O’s passenger trains. It was one of thirteen Baltimore buildings selected in 1959 for the Historic American Buildings Survey. On June 30, 1961, the B&O consolidated its Baltimore passenger train service at Camden Station, permanently ending its use of Mount Royal Station after 65 years of operation.
Art studio conversion
The vacant railroad station building, train shed, and the surrounding 3 acres were subsequently acquired by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1964 for $250,000. The sale amount was far below market value and represented “a substantial donation on the part of the B&O”, said MICA officials. After $1 million was raised by MICA for the project, the station was converted 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 for a new building of $25 per square foot. The former B&O baggage room and platform areas were enclosed for use as studios and the station’s exterior and clock tower were retained. The original 800-foot (240 m) long iron trainshed remains over CSX Transportation’s active mainline tracks. This adaptive reuse preserved the Mount Royal Station as an example of late 19th century industrial architecture, using it for a purpose different from its original one. Design work for the conversion was performed by Richard Donkervoet of Cochran, Stephenson and Donkervoet. Donkervoet retained as much of the building exterior appearance as possible, and also preserved much of the interior character, including the vaulted ceilings, columns, and mosaic floor. Architectural Forum recognized the station renovation for “sensitivity by later architects to the initial conception by the original,” and Margaret Mead, in a lecture given at the station, commented that the renovation “is perhaps the most magnificent example in the Western World of something being made into something else”.
A CSX Transportation train under the trainshed in 2009
On December 8, 1976, the station was added to the register of National Historic Landmarks, granting it full protection as an historic site. The Mount Royal Station train shed, one of the country last remaining such structures, was renovated in 1985 due to advanced deterioration of the shed materials. In 1992, the AIA’s Baltimore chapter honored the Maryland Institute and architects Cochran, Stevenson & Donkervoet with a 25 Year Award for Excellence in Design of Enduring Significance for their adaptive reuse of the former train depot.
Between 20052007, MICA accomplished a two-phased, $6.3 million renovation of the building by the architectural firm of Grieves, Worrall, Wright & Oatnick, Inc. The first phase, renovation of the interior, was completed in Fall, 2005: interior finishes, such as the mosaic tile flooring, marble columns, tin ceilings, wood wainscot, and trim were cleaned and restored. Classroom space was also increased, as well as the quality and quantity of studio space. The second phase, restoration of the building’s exterior and train shed, was completed in Spring, 2007: stonework and wood were cleaned, repaired, and repainted, the slate canopy restored, and the drainage system fixed; clerestory and structural timbers in the train shed were replaced and the steel roof framing was reinforced. In keeping with the pedestrian landscaping and streetscape that MICA has created along Mount Royal Avenue, a new plaza with benches, bike racks, shrubs, and ornamental grasses and ground cover was added.
The Station Building, as it is now called by MICA, houses the undergraduate departments of fiber and interdisciplinary sculpture, 3-D classrooms, and the Rinehart School of Sculpture, as well as senior studios.
See also
Baltimore Terminal Subdivision
Mount Clare Shops
References
^ “National Register Information System”. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
^ “Mount Royal Station and Trainshed”. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1406&ResourceType=Structure. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
^ a b John F. Stover, History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1987 (ISBN 0-911198-81-4), pp. 172176.
^ a b Timothy Jacobs, The History of the Baltimore & Ohio. New York: Crescent Books, 1989 (ISBN 0-517-67603-6), p. 68.
^ a b Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 134. ISBN 0-471-14389-8.
^ Salamon, Stephen J.; Oroszi, David P., and Ori, David P. (1993). Baltimore and Ohio: Reflections of the Capitol Dome. Silver Spring, Md.: Old Line Graphics. pp. 24. ISBN 1-879314-08-8.
^ a b c Charles V. Flowers, “Mount Royal Closes Doors But Tower Clock 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.
^ a b Binney, Marcus (1979). Railway Architecture. Save Britain’s Heritage (Association). pp. 226. ISBN 0-442-20393-4.
^ Frank P. L. Somerville (September 22, 1964). “Institute Buys B&O Station”. The Baltimore Evening Sun.
^ Harwood, Jr., Herbert H. (1990). Royal Blue Line. Sykesville, Md.: Greenberg Publishing. pp. 171. ISBN 0-89778-155-4.
^ Dorsey, John; Dilts, James D. (1981). A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Second ed.). Centreville, ryland: Tidewater Publishes. pp. 180181. ISBN 0-87033-272-4.
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