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It's only fitting to start with the gem of the remaining car houses:
Park Terminal. Situated at Fulton and Druid Hill Avenues, this
combination car house and waiting terminal was discontinued in the
early 1950's, and now sees use a city service truck depot.
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Visible from Park Terminal is the older Madison Avenue Car House (at
Cloverdale Road), whose shingles still read for the original Baltimore
City Passenger Railway Company. Though closed as an active barn
since 1939, cars of the #16 still used one track of the barn to make
their loop at Druid Hill Park until 1948.
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The Charles Theatre, on Charles Street below Lafayette was
originally a powerhouse for the city streetcars, and later a bus garage.
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It looks nice in its newest setup, with the removal of an old false front.
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The bricks from the original
Falls Road Car House opposite Cross Keys were used to construct these apartments at Falls Road and Springhouse Path
in 1947.
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Lombard Street (Highlandtown)
Car House was revamped in 1994 for use as Senior Citizens Apartments.
This stately structure stands at Lombard and Haven Streets in East Baltimore.
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Potomac Street Car House, at the Northwst corner of Preston and Potomac
Streets, has seen use as a streetcar barn, a trackless trolley depot,
and a bus garage, all before 1950. The old structure now sits in
reuse.
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On the Potomac Street side, this pole and lamp appear to date from the Baltimore Transit Era.
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York Road Car House has lost many of its decorative touches, but still
retains a stately look as it serves as a public storage facility.
Prior to this, it had been the home of a lumber dealer. The
division operated some of the last streetcars until November of 1963.
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Ironic describes Oak Street
Car House (Howard and 25th Streets) reuse as a Auto Dealership. The
North end was "recapped" and disguises the original building.
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It takes a little hunting to find the old Owings Mills powerhouse and
carbarn, but by entering the public warehouse property on the East side
of Reisterstown Road above Owings Mills Boulevard, one is greeted with
this nice sight, last used in service about 1938.
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Though never a streetcar barn, the old McMahon Bus garage on Bel Air
Road near Kenwood Avenue, does have its archtectural charms, and it did
watch many a #15 streetcar pass it until 1963. Another sell-out
like Oak Street, it now services the auto driving public.
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All that survives of the
old 1898 Irvington barn on Frederick Avenue just east of Collins Avenue, is this portion
of the Eastern Wall. The site was redeveloped into a shopping center in the late 1960's.
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When one enters the parking lot for the Bel-Park Senior Apartment
Towers near Belvedere and Cordelia, they are greeted with this pleasant
surprise - the western wall of the old Belvedere Car House, still
intact as a retainng wall for the neighboring shopping center.
Belvedere was closed in 1960, by which time it was a home to both cars
and buses.
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Edmondson Avenue Car House, inactive since 1954, though home of the
City Surplus Mart for a time, fell to the wreckers in 2004, for
construction of a new shopping center on the site bounded by Edmondson
Avenue, Lauretta Street, Poplar Grove Street, and Franklintown
Road. Portions of wall remain for the moment.
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The Baltimore and Smallwood
Street Car House, closed in 1948, served for many years as the home of
Mrs. Ihries Potato Chips, before being demolished in late 2001.
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Here,
the building is in partial wreck, showing some of the original wooden timbers.
The site is now used for an assisted living facilty run by Bon Secours Hospital on Pulaksi Street.
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