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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum
| Engineer / Architect: | Baldwin and Pennington |
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| Location: |
Pratt and Poppleton Streets, Baltimore, MD |
| Year Built: | 1884 |
| Structural Form: | passenger train car shop (now museum); iron and steel roof trusses |
| Historical Details: | At one time a thirty-two building complex, employing 3000 people, today the area is home to only a handful of building which have been converted into the B&O Railroad Museum. The most well-known of these buildings is the former passenger car shop, or roundhouse. |
| Technical Details: | The roundhouse (actually a 22-sided polygon) is 123 feet high and 235 feet in diameter. It was equipped to handle / house 22 cars at once. In 2002 the roof collapsed due to excessive snow loads, but it was restored and reopened in 2004. |
| Image Source(s): | Rachel Sangree |
| References: |
J. Dorsey and J.D. Dilts, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Third Edition), Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD (1997), p. 232; M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 165; Historic American Engineering Record, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Mount Clare Passenger Car Shop. HAER No. MD-6. Retrieved May 2, 2005 from: Link |