Police Department Headquarters, 100 Fallsway, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Partial Report on the City Plan," was a City Beautiful scheme centering on City Hall with a three-block landscaped mall extending eastward to Fallsway, a boulevard to be built over lower Jones Falls. Flanking the mall on both the north and south sides were to be grand public buildings in the Beaux Arts tradition. While the plan was never implemented, some of its major ideas were. The mall developed incrementally as a series of super blocks, beginning in 1895 with the Baltimore Courthouse, west of City Hall, the War Memorial Auditorium in 1921, east of City Hall and linked to the Plaza, Police Department Headquarters in 1924, facing the Fallsway east of the War Memorial Auditorium, and the old Post Office in 1932, situated west of the Courthouse. Stylistically, each building expresses the Classical style in a manner consistent with its period. Together, these building achieve a monumentality found nowhere else in the city. They are emphatic expressions o both function and symbolic meaning.
Police Department Headquarters, 100 Fallsway, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Partial Report on the City Plan," was a City Beautiful scheme centering on City Hall with a three-block landscaped mall extending eastward to Fallsway, a boulevard to be built over lower Jones Falls. Flanking the mall on both the north and south sides were to be grand public buildings in the Beaux Arts tradition. While the plan was never implemented, some of its major ideas were. The mall developed incrementally as a series of super blocks, beginning in 1895 with the Baltimore Courthouse, west of City Hall, the War Memorial Auditorium in 1921, east of City Hall and linked to the Plaza, Police Department Headquarters in 1924, facing the Fallsway east of the War Memorial Auditorium, and the old Post Office in 1932, situated west of the Courthouse. Stylistically, each building expresses the Classical style in a manner consistent with its period. Together, these building achieve a monumentality found nowhere else in the city. They are emphatic expressions o both function and symbolic meaning.
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
