“Victorian Gothic Icon” Or, as rail historian Herbert H. Harwood described it, an “exhilarating conglomeration of shapes and polychrome masonry culminating in a high cupola and spire topped with an iron finial, it is the prototype High Victorian Gothic railroad station.”
Although completed in 1875, what you see here in 1984 is essentially the result of the 1931 restoration of the E. Francis Baldwin-designed station. In the afternoon of June 27, 1931 the station was struck by lightning and gutted. As evidenced by drawings from the B&O’s Office of Engineer of Buildings, restoration work began promptly in July 1931.
