Baltimore Penn Station
Baltimore Penn Station—formally, Baltimore Pennsylvania Station—is the main inter-city passenger rail hub in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by New York City architect Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison, it was constructed in 1911 in the Beaux-Arts style of architecture for the Pennsylvania Railroad.Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: passenger rail station in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Amtrak Penn Station”, “BAL”, “Baltimore Pennsylvania Station”, “MARC Penn Station”, “Penn Station”, and “Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Male/Female and Charles Theatre.
Male/Female
Work of art
Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC BY 2.0.
Male/Female is a 15.5-meter tall hollow stainless steel sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky standing at the entrance to Penn Station in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts intersecting colossal male and female forms with pulsing light-emitting diode light.
Charles Theatre
Movie theater
The Charles Theatre, often referred to as simply The Charles, or, even more simply, The Chuck, is the oldest movie theatre in Baltimore. The theatre is a Beaux-Arts building designed as a streetcar barn in 1892 by Jackson C. Charles Theatre is situated 680 feet north of Baltimore Penn Station.
Lyric Baltimore
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lyric Baltimore is a music venue in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, located close to the University of Baltimore law school. The building was modeled after the Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam, and it was inaugurated on October 31, 1894, with a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Australian opera singer Nellie Melba as the featured soloist. Lyric Baltimore is situated 970 feet southwest of Baltimore Penn Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midtown and Station North Arts and Entertainment District.
Station North Arts and Entertainment District
Locality
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
The Station North Arts and Entertainment District is an area and official arts and entertainment district in the U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland. The neighborhood is marked by a combination of artistically leaning commercial ventures, such as theaters and museums, as well as formerly abandoned warehouses that have since been converted into loft-style living.
Greenmount West
Neighborhood
Baltimore Penn Station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Baltimore, Central Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.30749° or 39° 18′ 27″ northLongitude
-76.61556° or 76° 36′ 56″ westOperator
Maryland Transit AdministrationNetwork
Light RailLinkOpen location code
87F5894M+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 7103884603OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationWikidata ID
Q3374785
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Baltimore Penn Station” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴爾的摩賓夕法尼亞車站”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة پينسيلڤانيا”
- French: “Baltimore Penn”
- French: “gare de Baltimore Pennsylvania”
- French: “Pennsylvania Station”
- Italian: “Stazione di Baltimora Pennsylvania”
- Italian: “stazione di Baltimore Pennsylvania”
- Japanese: “ペンシルベニア駅 (ボルチモア)”
- Japanese: “ペンシルベニア駅”
- Japanese: “ボルチモア・ペン駅”
- Portuguese: “Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore)”
- Portuguese: “Pennsylvania Station”
- Urdu: “بالٹیمور پین اسٹیشن”
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