McKeldin Square

Last updated July 14, 2019

McKeldin Square is an area of Downtown Baltimore, located near the Inner Harbor at the corners of Pratt and Light Streets.

Downtown Baltimore is the central business district of Baltimore traditionally bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the west, Mt. Royal Avenue to the north, President Street to the east and the Inner Harbor area to the south. It consists of five neighborhoods: Westside, Mount Vernon, City Centre, Inner Harbor, and Camden Yards.

The Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction, and landmark of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It was described by the Urban Land Institute in 2009 as "the model for post-industrial waterfront redevelopment around the world." The Inner Harbor is located at the mouth of Jones Falls, creating the wide and short northwest branch of the Patapsco River. The district includes any water west of a line drawn between the foot of President Street and the American Visionary Art Museum.

Pratt Street is a major street in Baltimore. It forms a one-way pair of streets with Lombard Street that run west–east through downtown Baltimore. For most of their route, Pratt Street is one-way in an eastbound direction, and Lombard Street is one way westbound. Both streets begin in west Baltimore at Frederick Avenue and end in Butcher's Hill at Patterson Park Avenue. Since 2005, these streets have been open to two-way traffic from Broadway until their end at Patterson Park. Although Lombard is also a two-way street from Fulton Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Pratt is still one-way eastbound in this area.

The central area is a polygon of brick. On the Pratt St. side there is a strip of grass; behind the brick there used to be a pool at the base of a multi-leveled concrete structure with walkways and fountains;^[1]^[2] however, this fountain structure was removed in 2016.^[3]

The location of the square puts it right in the middle of Baltimore's 1861 riots, during which locals turned on a Union regiment that was passing through the city.

The Baltimore riot of 1861 was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, in Baltimore, Maryland, between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats and other Southern/Confederate sympathizers on one side and members of the primarily Massachusetts and some Pennsylvania state militia regiments en route to the national capital at Washington called up for federal service on the other. The fighting began at the President Street Station, spreading throughout President Street and subsequently to Howard Street, where it ended at the Camden Street Station. The riot produced the first deaths by hostile action in the American Civil War and is nicknamed the "First Bloodshed of the Civil War".

McKeldin Square has been designated as Baltimore's zone for protests, where it is legal to exercise one's First Amendment rights and pass out pamphlets.^[4] Permits are required for groups with groups of 25 or more requiring a permit. On October 4, 2011, it became the location of the Occupy Baltimore protests until their December 13 eviction.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which respect an establishment of religion, prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.

Occupy Baltimore was a collaboration that included peaceful protests and demonstrations. Occupy Baltimore began on October 4, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland, in McKeldin Square near the Inner Harbor area of Downtown Baltimore. It is one of the many Occupy movements around the United States and worldwide, inspired by Occupy Wall Street.

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References

↑ Wylson, Anthony (1986). Aquatecture: architecture and water. Architectural Press. p. 63.
↑ Snedcof, Harold R. (1985). Cultural facilities in mixed-use development. Urban Land Institute. p. 236.
↑ Gunts, Edward (November 3, 2016). "McKeldin Fountain is the latest Brutalist work to be pulverized in Baltimore". The Architect's Newspaper. The Architect's Newspaper, LLC. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
↑ Walker, Andrea K. (September 18, 2011). "Spray-paint artist arrested at Inner Harbor". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 17 November 2011.

Coordinates: 39°17′10″N76°36′47″W / 39.28611°N 76.61306°W / 39.28611; -76.61306

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[1] Wylson, Anthony (1986). Aquatecture: architecture and water. Architectural Press. p. 63.

[2] Snedcof, Harold R. (1985). Cultural facilities in mixed-use development. Urban Land Institute. p. 236.

[3] Gunts, Edward (November 3, 2016). "McKeldin Fountain is the latest Brutalist work to be pulverized in Baltimore". The Architect's Newspaper. The Architect's Newspaper, LLC. Retrieved July 13, 2019.

[4] Walker, Andrea K. (September 18, 2011). "Spray-paint artist arrested at Inner Harbor". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 17 November 2011.

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