Station North Case Study

Station North, a current cultural hub for Baltimore, consists of small neighborhoods such as Charles Village, Bolton Hill, Mount Vernon and some financially deprived areas. It is much better known for its artistry and budding home for young talent than it’s heavy industrial past. In the late 1800s, it was a booming industrial area thriving with factories and business such as the North Avenue Market, Parkway Theatre and the Morgan Millwork Company. The basis of Station North began in the 1840s with the expansion of the city from the Inner Harbor via new roads began. As new methods of transportation began to run throughout the city, the area known as East North Ave began to develop into a thriving suburb. Towards the beginning of the turn of

It was becoming an epicenter of cultural and discernible wealth amongst Baltimoreans as citizens quickly filled up the area. This led a massive upheaval of citizens from the bursting downtown area to the now budding ‘Station North’ area. Schools and buildings that would later be cemented in time sprouted there such as, Public School 32 and Lovely Lane Methodist church. To draw more people to the area and stamp Penn North as Baltimore’s central hub, a design was created for the area that still stands

Station North now is an area that blooms within itself, despite the economic depravity in some areas. Many galleries such as The Metro Gallery, The Crown and Red Emma 's display the growing crowd of millennials transforming the area into what it once was in it’s prime. Though a large part of Station North is budding and thriving, the city still hopes to transform the entire area into that of a true arts district. Station North has truly become the jewel of Baltimore, then and