Baltimore’s Old Power Plant
May 7, 2009 by Jon Rochetti
Filed under Home & Living
Location: Pier 4, Inner Harbor
Destination: Baltimore, Maryland
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2009
Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler
Located at Pier 4, in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the Old Power Plant, now called Power Plant Live! houses multiple restaurants and nightclubs, including a Hard Rock Cafe, and the first ESPN Zone.
Built in the year 1900, to provide power to the United Railways & Electric Co., the Pratt Street Power Plant, or the Pier Four Power Plant provided power to a citywide rail transportation system.
It it was also a central steam plant, for local power company. The generating system became obsolete in the plant was retired, until World War II, when demand for electricity increased, and the plan was put back on line.
After the war, it closed and housed several unsuccessful business ventures, including an indoor Six Flags theme park for four years.
Today, the massive industrial structure with its Neo-Classical details and four smokestacks is a visual landmark of the Inner Harbor and Baltimore’s skyline.
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