Northern District Police Station is a historic police station

Police station

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 located at Baltimore

Baltimore

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

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. It is a complex of interconnected buildings designed in the late Victorian/French Renaissance

Victorian architecture

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 style consisting of a three-story main station house with a hipped roof and dormers; a connected two story building which had originally housed the cellblock; and a pair of hipped roof garages which were originally used as livery

Livery

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 buildings. They are in turn connected to an "L"-shaped building consisting of the original clerestoried stable

Stable

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 and flat roofed garage

Garage (house)

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. The buildings encircle a courtyard which is now used as a parking lot. It was designed by Henry F. Brauns

Henry F. Brauns

Henry F. Brauns was a Baltimore, Maryland-based architect. He was a son of Ferdinand L. and Henrietta Brauns and was one of ten brothers and sisters. Among his brothers were Rev. F.W. Brauns a Presbyterian minister, Ferdinand L. Brauns an accountant of local repute. He started his practice at...

 in 1899.

Northern District Police Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2001.

External links

• Northern District Police Station, Baltimore City, including photo from 2001, at Maryland Historical Trust