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St. Paul and Calvert streets
St. Paul Street and Calvert Street are a one-way pair of streets in Downtown Baltimore and areas north. The streets, which are part of Maryland Route 2, are two of Baltimore's best-known streets in the downtown area.
St. Paul Street begins off Charles Street just south of Coldspring Lane near Loyola College (now renamed Loyola University Maryland) From this point on, the street runs directly parallel to North Charles Street, exactly one block east of Charles Street. It carries Maryland Route 139 in the southbound direction until intersecting North Avenue (formerly Boundary Avenue with northern city limits of 1818–1888) (U.S. Route 1), where MD 139 ends.
St. Paul Street is two ways until the intersection with 31st Street. Northbound traffic is relegated to a single northbound lane, separated by median, and with metered parallel parking.
St. Paul Street is exit 4 off the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83). Approaching the downtown area moving south between East Centre and Lexington Streets, St. Paul Street is split into two parallel, nearby streets, also being identified as St. Paul Place in this area. The wider eastern thoroughfare was the former narrow alley-like Courtland Street, once flanked by rows of small brick and stone townhouses. While the more westward of the two sides of St. Paul Street/Place intersects with all east–west streets within these blocks, the eastward opposite wider side passes under the Orleans Street Viaduct (US 40). The area between the two St. Paul streets, landscaped into terraced gardens and parks with fountains are known as Preston Gardens, replaced a group of 1820s, 1830s and 1840s of Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival styled architecture townhouses which had supposedly become shabby by the early 20th century along narrow alley-like Courtland Street and the original parallel St. Paul Street. The district had become home to many African American / black professional offices of doctors, lawyers, and a number of schools, educational / cultural organizations and institutions plus several churches in those tightly packed blocks from the early 19th century of which many of the residences would be valuable architectural treasures now a century later. Unfortunately, the five square blocks north to south along St. Paul and Courtland were razed beginning in 1919 as the city's first "urban renewal" project and was laid out in a Classical Revival style architecture and landscaped the terraces, staircases and fountains by noted architect Thomas Hastings (1860–1929). The remaining black and white historical photographs archived in the libraries and historical society are all that's left to show the appearance long ago of this picturesque residential neighborhood and its Baltimore style rowhouses architecture streetscape just on the northern edge of Downtown, similar to others on the western and eastern sides.
Preston Gardens landscaped terraces constructed on five square blocks north to south of razed / cleared townhouses and educational / cultural instructions along with several churches on the northern edge of downtown during the early 1920s, were named for James H. Preston (1860–1938), who was the 37th Mayor of the City of Baltimore (served 1911–1919), and earlier as the Speaker in 1894 of the Maryland House of Delegates (the lower chamber of the General Assembly of Maryland) in the historic Maryland State House on State Circle of the state capital of Annapolis of which he served 1890–1894.
As St. Paul Street is mostly one-way southbound, Calvert Street, which is directly east of St. Paul, is open to northbound traffic. North Calvert Street is a name of a portion of the street north of its intersection with East Baltimore Street. South Calvert Street is a name for the downtown portion running further south and alongside the Inner Harbor waterfront to the east.
Calvert Street begins at Pratt Street near the Inner Harbor and continues through the downtown area and various north Baltimore neighborhoods before terminating in the Guilford neighborhood. of northern Baltimore.
At its railroad and Jones Falls stream crossing near I-83, Calvert Street once had an arch-style steel/iron bridge with lions sculptures at each end, though not as interesting looking as the one on nearby Charles Street or Howard Street running parallel to the west. The present crossing on Calvert Street is ordinary-looking poured concrete construction.
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St. Paul and Calvert streets
St. Paul Street and Calvert Street are a one-way pair of streets in Downtown Baltimore and areas north. The streets, which are part of Maryland Route 2, are two of Baltimore's best-known streets in the downtown area.
St. Paul Street begins off Charles Street just south of Coldspring Lane near Loyola College (now renamed Loyola University Maryland) From this point on, the street runs directly parallel to North Charles Street, exactly one block east of Charles Street. It carries Maryland Route 139 in the southbound direction until intersecting North Avenue (formerly Boundary Avenue with northern city limits of 1818–1888) (U.S. Route 1), where MD 139 ends.
St. Paul Street is two ways until the intersection with 31st Street. Northbound traffic is relegated to a single northbound lane, separated by median, and with metered parallel parking.
St. Paul Street is exit 4 off the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83). Approaching the downtown area moving south between East Centre and Lexington Streets, St. Paul Street is split into two parallel, nearby streets, also being identified as St. Paul Place in this area. The wider eastern thoroughfare was the former narrow alley-like Courtland Street, once flanked by rows of small brick and stone townhouses. While the more westward of the two sides of St. Paul Street/Place intersects with all east–west streets within these blocks, the eastward opposite wider side passes under the Orleans Street Viaduct (US 40). The area between the two St. Paul streets, landscaped into terraced gardens and parks with fountains are known as Preston Gardens, replaced a group of 1820s, 1830s and 1840s of Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival styled architecture townhouses which had supposedly become shabby by the early 20th century along narrow alley-like Courtland Street and the original parallel St. Paul Street. The district had become home to many African American / black professional offices of doctors, lawyers, and a number of schools, educational / cultural organizations and institutions plus several churches in those tightly packed blocks from the early 19th century of which many of the residences would be valuable architectural treasures now a century later. Unfortunately, the five square blocks north to south along St. Paul and Courtland were razed beginning in 1919 as the city's first "urban renewal" project and was laid out in a Classical Revival style architecture and landscaped the terraces, staircases and fountains by noted architect Thomas Hastings (1860–1929). The remaining black and white historical photographs archived in the libraries and historical society are all that's left to show the appearance long ago of this picturesque residential neighborhood and its Baltimore style rowhouses architecture streetscape just on the northern edge of Downtown, similar to others on the western and eastern sides.
Preston Gardens landscaped terraces constructed on five square blocks north to south of razed / cleared townhouses and educational / cultural instructions along with several churches on the northern edge of downtown during the early 1920s, were named for James H. Preston (1860–1938), who was the 37th Mayor of the City of Baltimore (served 1911–1919), and earlier as the Speaker in 1894 of the Maryland House of Delegates (the lower chamber of the General Assembly of Maryland) in the historic Maryland State House on State Circle of the state capital of Annapolis of which he served 1890–1894.
As St. Paul Street is mostly one-way southbound, Calvert Street, which is directly east of St. Paul, is open to northbound traffic. North Calvert Street is a name of a portion of the street north of its intersection with East Baltimore Street. South Calvert Street is a name for the downtown portion running further south and alongside the Inner Harbor waterfront to the east.
Calvert Street begins at Pratt Street near the Inner Harbor and continues through the downtown area and various north Baltimore neighborhoods before terminating in the Guilford neighborhood. of northern Baltimore.
At its railroad and Jones Falls stream crossing near I-83, Calvert Street once had an arch-style steel/iron bridge with lions sculptures at each end, though not as interesting looking as the one on nearby Charles Street or Howard Street running parallel to the west. The present crossing on Calvert Street is ordinary-looking poured concrete construction.