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Baltimore Architecture: Then and Now The Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Calvert Station, 501 North Calvert Street St. John's Catholic Church: Eager Street (901 East), Baltimore Sunpapers Building image info Architects: J. Crawford Neilson for the Calvert Station (1856) E. Francis Baldwin for the St. John's Church (1882) J. Crawford Neilson (1817-1900) was one of the architects most in demand in antebellum Baltimore, and like many famous architects he was not above adapting a single design to more than one commission. Calvert Station, built to house the southern terminus of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, welcomed commuters to the corner of Calvert and Franklin Streets for almost a century before being torn down in 1950 to make way for the current headquarters of the Baltimore Sunpapers building. As the photographs show, it was a more square-shouldered version of the Roman Catholic church of St. John the Evangelist, which still stands at the corner of Eager and Valley Streets in east Baltimore. St. John's was the place of worship for generations of Irish families in east Baltimore, whose numbers were such as to necessitate the building's enlargement by the addition of an apse and two pavilions at its south back end in 1882 under the architectural supervision of E. Francis Baldwin. Just as the changes in the city's transportation needs closed Calvert Station in the late 1940s, so demographic changes in the city closed St. John's in 1966. It since has been converted from a church to a neighborhood center staffed by the Redemptorist order. Image information: (1): The Calvert Station. Calvert Street (501 North). (2): St. John's Church (Earlier View). (3): St. John's R.C. Church. Eager Street (834 East). (4): The Baltimore Sunpapers Building. (CC3009, MdHS/BCLM Photograph Collection). Photos courtesy of John Orrick, 2002. Previous Next Baltimore Architecture - Homepage Site Contents 1 Masonic Building 2 Enoch Pratt House 3 Graham-Hughes House 4 American Brewery 5 Belvedere Hotel 6 Camden Station 7 Alex Brown Building 8 Williams-Small House 9 Timanus Mill 10 The Pembroke Apartments 11 Merchant's Exchange 12 Old B and O Building 13 Denny & Mitchell Building 14 Guardian Trust Building 15 Old Post Office Building 16 St. Joseph's R.C. Church & Washington Firehouse 17 The Maryland Casualty Building 18 Church of the Redeemer Building 19 The Popplein Family Mansion/Marlborough Apartments 20 Samuel Hoffman, later the Dr. William Osler Mansion 21 Cohen Brothers, later the Dr. Robinson Building 22 Saint Peter's Catholic Church 1770 23 The Baltimore Humane Impartial Society Building 24 Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Calvert Station 25 The Richmond Market Building Site 26 Dr. Charles Howard's Site and Mount Vernon Place M.E. Church 27 The Stephen Broadbent Mansion "Ever Green"

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