B&O Warehouse

The B&O Warehouse is a building in Baltimore, Maryland, adjacent to Oriole Park at Camden Yards. It was constructed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) beginning in 1899, with later sections completed in 1905, adjacent to the B&O's Camden Station and freight yard at Camden and Eutaw Streets. The convert|1116|ft|m|0|adj=on long eight-story brick structure had 430,000 square feet (almost 40,000 m²) of floor space for merchandise storage and distribution, large enough to hold a thousand carloads of freight at a time, the B&O advertised. [Herbert W. Harwood, Jr., "Impossible Challenge". Baltimore, Md.: Bernard, Roberts and Co., 1979 (ISBN 0-934118-17-5), p. 150.] Railroad historian Herbert H. Harwood proclaimed it an "awesome structure ... a truly classic turn-of-the-century railroad warehouse." [Harwood, p. 416.] The warehouse was used by the B&O through the 1960s but was mostly vacant by the 1970s due to the use of trucks and newer, more efficient single-floor warehouses located in industrial parks elsewhere. [Stephen J. Salamon, David P. Oroszi, and David P. Ori, "Baltimore and Ohio – Reflections of the Capitol Dome". Silver Spring, Md.: Old Line Graphics, 1993 (ISBN 1-879314-08-8), pp. 26–29.]

With the development of Oriole Park, opened in 1992, the former B&O warehouse was converted to team offices for the Baltimore Orioles, team spaces, and a private club.

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