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Mount Royal Station
The
Mount Royal Station and Trainshed
was the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
's third
train station
in
Baltimore, Maryland
, at the north end of the
Baltimore Belt Line
's
Howard Street
tunnel in the fashionable
Bolton Hill
neighborhood. It was the first railroad station in the world to have
electrified passenger trains
when it opened on September 1, 1896, serving the B&O's famed
Royal Blue line
. Following its closure as a railroad station in 1961, it became part of the
Maryland Institute College of Art
(MICA) in an acclaimed adaptation preserving the building's original architectural features. The building is now used for MICA art studios.
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