Near the light rail station I should have gone to is the Timonium Fairgrounds, actually called the Maryland State Fairgrounds, and home of the Maryland State Fair.
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Mar 10
Light Rail
In doing some research for MDP pictures, or rather when brainstorming for subjects of MDP pictures, I’ll often look for historical markers in the vicinity of where I’ll be visiting. I’ll share a secret with you. One of my favorite places on the internet is actually a site that accumulates these markers. The historic marker database, whose website www.hmdb.org will take over your life if you let it.
On the site I discovered a marker next to the light rail lines in Timonium that claims there is a granite track bed from the railroad that originally ran in that spot, the right of way for which is now being used as the light rail line. This is a remnant of a time when railroading was so new that nobody realized it was better to put tracks on cheap wooden ties lodged in rocks, than it was to put them on a solid block of granite. However, today’s picture has nothing to do with that. This is because MDP went to the Timonium Business Park light rail stop, and not the Timonium light rail stop, where the granite is.
So today’s picture is a mirror and a pretty cool shot from the historically insignificant Timonium Business Park light rail stop.
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1. The Timonium Business Park stop is one of the only light rail stations outside of the city that has no dedicated parking of its own.
2. FIX THE TAB FUNCTION
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09
Mar 10
Alms2
The scene looking out from the opposite direction of yesterday’s shot. The alms house is situated on top of a hill overlooking the valley and, though it’s impossible to make out from this distance, the quarry I mentioned in yesterday’s post is right in the middle of that valley.
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I have no idea where this is. That’s pretty sad.
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It’s right above the Cockeysville Library. I bet you’ve seen it before.
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Oh right. I knew that.
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08
Mar 10
Baltimore County Alms House
We’re moving out of Baltimore today and into Baltimore County. If you are from out of state, you should know that those are two completely distinct jurisdictions. The city of Baltimore is not a part of Baltimore county or of any other county. This building was originally built in 1872 as the third alms house for Baltimore county, the first two being just down the road a bit. Today it houses the county historical society.
I used to remember this place as where my mother would go when she needed to identify an unknown kind of plant. This sounds strange, but the reason why you would bring your plants here is because it was also home to the horticultural extension, (now just called the University of Maryland Extension) which is a community outreach program allowing citizens of the state to use the agricultural knowledge base of the school.
One more interesting piece of information about this building is that it was made from stone quarried on the premises. That sounds strange too. However, less than a mile from this place is a productive stone quarry that still operates to this day.
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05
Mar 10
Lexington Market
Lexington market has been around in one form or another since 1782. This much you can gather from the sign on the door. In 1782 it was an open air market and it wasn’t until the 19th century that the vendors of Lexington Market would find themselves under one roof. The building you see today was built after a fire burned the market down in the 50’s. The giant building, which extends over a city block, may not see the same volume of customers as it did many years ago when, for most of the neighborhood and much of the city, it was a primary source of meals and of groceries. However, it still remains a popular place to buy foods of a common and of a unique nature.
In fact the neighborhood surrounding the market is next in line for a facelift. While much of it is owned and used by the University of Maryland Medical school and various other medical organizations, much of the neighborhood’s retail economy was shut down decades ago. It’s difficult to say what the result of new building in the area will be, but the odds are that Lexington Market will still be there at the end of it.
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I 100000% love this picture.
Also, lets go there!
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Get the chicken box!
Also best part about going to Lexington Market was seeing guys standing around drinking beer at 1 in the afternoon. I don’t know if they still let you do that.
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04
Mar 10
The Charles
If you guessed that yesterday’s picture was the exterior of the Charles Theater, you were correct. Once a streetcar engine shop, it was converted to a theater in the ’30’s. The original complex also included a bowling alley and dance hall which are long gone. With the struggles of the Senator, the Charles is now solidly Baltimore’s premiere independent movie house and is one of the few places left to experience movies as they were shown almost a century ago.
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03
Mar 10
Baltimore City Passenger Railway
This building, formerly an engine shop for the Baltimore City Passenger Railway streetcar company now serves another use as one of the city’s most beloved attracti0ns. I can’t show the whole building right now or you’d know the answer before it is posted tomorrow.
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02
Mar 10
Bank of America Building (formerly Baltimore Trust and Maryland National)
Here’s the counterpart to last Friday’s shot of the Legg Mason Building. From the same corner with an angle to the right, you can see this building: The current Bank of America Building. I’ve previously talked about this building, but I feel that it’s one of those significant parts of the landscape that deserve a second post.
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01
Mar 10
London Fog
Here’s a shot looking 180 degrees from the picture of the clipper mill sign last week. What you find is the former London Fog headquarters and the Woodberry light rail station. Like it’s neighbors this building has been converted into mixed use space. The M on the lower for Meadow Mill (the building/complex’s new name) took the place of the L for London Fog.
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I thought the “L” was for Lionel.
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Feb 10
Legg Mason Building
What’s Missing? From this perspective you might mistake Baltimore’s (and Maryland’s) tallest building for another building of similar design: the world trade center in Baltimore. While they look very similar from three sides, you can usually tell the difference because the world trade center is a five sided building. In fact, it’s the world’s tallest five sided building. So that means that this must be the FORMER Legg mason building / USF&G building. What’s missing? The Legg Mason sign on top of the building is what’s missing. Considering the skyline’s loss of the Maryland National sign and the Alex.Brown sign, a 500 foot tall invading monster would have a much harder time getting around modern Baltimore than they would have had in 1995.
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non-sensical spam comment!
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1 bryanintowson // Mar 11, 2010 at 9:36 AM
The Maryland State archives has some awesome old photos of the fairgrounds available online.
Also, my security code today was “187187″. Message, MDDP?
2 Gump // Mar 11, 2010 at 11:39 AM
Very flattering shot of the fairgrounds.
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