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List of streets in Baltimore

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This is a list of notable streets in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
The Alameda Harford Road north to Limit Avenue at city line (continues south as St. Lo Drive; continues north as Sherwood Road) Ramblewood
Wilson Park
Pen Lucy 		Baltimore City College Planned as a road through a park when constructed.[1] Carries MD 542 from south end to Loch Raven Boulevard. Served by bus routes 3 and 36.
Aliceanna Street Boston Street west to dead end at Inner Harbor Inner Harbor East, Fells Point, Canton National Katyn Massacre Memorial Site of house where Frederick Douglass once lived as slave (not known by that name then).[2] Furniture store that was seed to Hecht's department store first opened on this street in the 1850s. Has a traffic circle with President Street.

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Biddle Street Park Biddle Avenue to East Chase Street Berea One-way pair (eastbound) with Preston Street. Named after Elizabeth Gordon Biddle.[3] Once viewed as home of gentlemen, but now considered to be a run-down area.[4] Former home of a railway station known as Biddle Street Station.[5] Part of route of Bus Route 5.
Broening Highway O'Donnell Street to Baltimore Beltway O'Donnell Heights Riverside Generating Station Former location of General Motors plant that closed in 2005[6] and the old Western Electric "Point Breeze" plant. In the county, it is maintained by the state as MD 695A.

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Druid Park Lake Drive Druid Hill Avenue to I-83 (continues as 28th/29th Streets) Reservoir Hill Druid Hill Park (southern border) I-83 exit 7. Built in the 1940s as a barrier between Druid Hill Park and the neighborhoods to the south.[7] Part of what was once planned as an interstate.

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Eager Street Three discontinuous streets:
Park Avenue to Guilford Avenue
 Fallsway to dead end east of Collington Avenue
Madeira Street to alley between Linwood Avenue and Curley Street 		Collington Square One of three streets in Baltimore named after John Eager Howard. Had the only bridge not destroyed in the flood of 1854.[8] Part of route of Bus Route 15.

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Fallsway I-83 north to Guilford Avenue Jonestown Carries northbound traffic for part of Guilford Avenue that is one way. Built originally to accommodate railroad and subway lines.[9] Construction later seen as a "mistake" by urban planners.[10]
Federal Street Aisquith Street to Orville Avenue (shortly past Erdman Avenue) Collington Square Bus routes 5 and 6 operate on part of Federal Street
Another small section of Federal Street exists west of Green Mount Cemetery
Fleet Street President Street to Haven Street
Lehigh Street to Umbra Street 		Inner Harbor East
Fells Point
Highlandtown
Brewer's Hill
Greektown 		Formerly known as Canton Avenue.[11] Part of route of Bus Route 31
Split by railroad and factory between Haven and Lehigh Sts.
Fremont Avenue Pennsylvania Avenue to Booth Street Upton
Sandtown-Winchester 		Interrupted by US 40, where there is no crossing over the former I-170 freeway. Former route of the Fremont Avenue Streetcar Line and Bus Route 102 (both now defunct).[12]

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Garrison Boulevard Greenspring Avenue to Clifton Avenue Pimlico
Forest Park 		Garrison Middle School
Langston Hughes Elementary School
 Part of route of Bus Route 91, formerly Garrison Boulevard Streetcar.[13] Was original location of Beth Tfiloh Congregation.[14]
Guilford Avenue University Parkway to Baltimore Street
(continues as South Street) 		Charles Village Copycat Building Exit 3 off southbound Jones Falls Expressway. Served by bus route 36. Major rail center from the 1850s to 1950s.[15] Former location of the Guilford Avenue Elevated Streetcar Trestle Line.[16]

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Keith Avenue Haven Street to Broening Highway I-95 exit 56[17]
Kelly Avenue Cross Country Boulevard to Falls Road Mt. Washington Mount Washington Arboretum Part of route of Bus Route 27. Prior to 1950, was not a road, but a streetcar track path. Was modified then in order to accommodate a change from streetcars to buses.[18][19]

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Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Howard Street south to I-395 Bolton Hill Once part of a planned interstate. Originally called "Harbor City Boulevard." Is the route of the annual Martin Luther King's Day Parade in Baltimore.[20]

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Patterson Park Avenue Sinclair Lane to Essex Street Collington Square
Butcher's Hill
Canton
McElderry Park 		Patterson Park Western boundary of Patterson Park.[21] Part of route of bus routes 5, 7, and 13

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
Redwood Street various discontinuous sections between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and South Street Downtown Baltimore Old Saint Paul's Cemetery
University of Maryland at Baltimore
University of Maryland Medical Center 		There are three discontinuous sections of Redwood Street: one from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to a dead end just east of Penn Street, one from Greene Street to a dead end just east of Eutaw Street, and one from Charles Street to South Street. Formerly known as German Street, and before that Lovely Lane. Named after George Redwood, the first officer killed in France in World War I.[22][23]

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Street Route Communities Landmarks Notes
25th Street Howard Street to Wolfe Street Remington This street serves as a two way east–west large thoroughfare into lower/southern Charles Village. Formerly known as Huntingdon Avenue (for the old village named along the Greenmount Avenue/Old York Road in the now Waverly residential neighborhood and commercial strip.[24] A part of Huntingdon Avenue between 25th and 31st Streets in Remington still exists under that name.

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References

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  1. ^ Clayton Coleman Hall, ed. (1912). Baltimore: its history and its people, Volume 1. Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York. p. 446. the alamedabaltimore.
  2. ^ Frederick Douglass (1845). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. p. 1050. ISBN 0-940450-79-8. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
  3. ^ Madison Smartt Bell (2007). Charm City: a walk through Baltimore. Random House, Inc. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-307-34206-5.
  4. ^ Letitia Stockett (1997). Baltimore: A Not Too Serious History. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 281. ISBN 0-8018-5670-1.
  5. ^ Public Service Commission (1911). Report of the Public Service Commission of Maryland, Volume 2. Baltimore Sun Job Printing Office. p. 371. Retrieved August 12, 2011. Biddle Streetbaltimore.
  6. ^ Stacey Hirsh (May 14, 2005). "Plant makes its final run". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
  7. ^ Eden Unger Bowditch and Anne Draddy (2008). Druid Hill Park: the heart of historic Baltimore. The History Press, Charleston, SC. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-59629-209-3.
  8. ^ John Thomas Scharf (1881). History of Baltimore City and County. Luis H. Everts, Philadelphia. p. 213. Eager Streetbaltimore.
  9. ^ Christiane Crasemann Collins (2005). Werner Hegemann and the search for universal urbanism. W. W. Norton & Company, New York. p. 95. ISBN 0-393-73156-1.
  10. ^ Collins, p. 378
  11. ^ Elizabeth Fee and Linda Shopes (1993). The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Temple University Press. p. 131. ISBN 9781566391849.
  12. ^ Harwood, p. 40.
  13. ^ Harwood, p. 58.
  14. ^ Lauren R. Silberman (2008). The Jewish Community of Baltimore. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7385-5397-9.
  15. ^ Charles Duff and Tracey Clark (2006). Baltimore Architecture. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC. p. 89. ISBN 0-7385-4281-4.
  16. ^ Harwood, p. 14.
  17. ^ Tom Gilligan (2008). The I-95 Exit Information Guide. Starsystems. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-9719857-1-1.
  18. ^ Harwood, p. 82.
  19. ^ "A History of the Falls Road Streetcar Line". Baltimore Transit Company Archives. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
  20. ^ Elizabeth A. Evitts and Nancy Jones-Bonbrest (November 2004). Insiders' Guide to Baltimore, 4th edition. Morris Book Publishing, LLC. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-7627-3499-3.
  21. ^ Scharf, p. 276.
  22. ^ Stockett, p. 35.
  23. ^ "Fourth Hotel Statler". Hotel monthly, volume 26. John Willy. January 1918. p. 63. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
  24. ^ Stockett, p. 12.
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