A flat rowhouse peninsula between a converted grain elevator, an active container terminal and Fort McHenry's star shaped walls.
What Locust Point looks like
Locust Point sits on a flat peninsula with the Patapsco River on three sides. Brick rowhouses run in tight blocks off Fort Avenue, the street that crosses the peninsula toward the water. The earliest of them, on streets including , date from the 1840s and 1850s. They are two storeys in Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Gothic Revival brick.
At the water's edge, a tan and grey tower with setback upper floors rises from the former B&O grain elevator, converted to condominiums in 2009 and renamed . The Domino Sugar refinery works a few blocks east, its red DOMINO sign lit above the roofline in 20 foot letters since 1951. Container cranes and marine terminals line the harbor beyond the rowhouses, visible over the rooftops from the peninsula's inner streets.
stands at the tip of the peninsula, its brick walls and grass covered ramparts laid out in a five pointed star, a flagpole rising from the parade ground inside. Near Hull Street, the former Procter & Gamble soap plant reopened in 2004 as an office campus called , its low buildings faced in dark panels and red trim.
A red brick church with a white wooden steeple stands on Beason Street, arched window frames set into its gable end. Near the western edge of the peninsula, a low granite wall is lettered for the Baltimore Immigration Memorial, backed by a lawn and a row of trees.
Shot in Locust Point
HBO's The Wire used Locust Point as the Sobotka family's home neighborhood in its second season, filming Nick Sobotka's house on off Andre Street. The old grain pier at the tip of the peninsula played the Grainery, the harborside building Nick predicts will become condominiums. It was redeveloped into the Silo Point tower after the show wrapped.
The Wire, season 2
Silo Point
The old B&O grain elevator at the tip of the peninsula appears in the series as the Grainery, the harborside building Nick Sobotka predicts will be turned into condominiums. It was converted into the Silo Point residential tower in 2009, a year after the show wrapped. Street View
Red Hook is also a flat waterfront peninsula with a working container terminal beside brick rowhouses, the same industrial edge against a residential grid that Locust Point has. Red Hook's own converted warehouses stand in for Locust Point's converted grain elevator and office campus. Red Hook's rowhouses run taller in places and its container terminal sits closer to the water, so a wide shot needs care to keep modern cranes out of a period frame. Try searching waterfront rowhouses container terminal now.
Fishtown's brick rowhouse blocks near the Delaware River share Locust Point's own nineteenth century scale, worker housing built close to a working waterfront. Fishtown's rowhouses run in longer, denser blocks and its riverfront has fewer grain elevators, so a period frame reads better on the smaller side streets than on the water itself. Try searching brick rowhouses near the river now.
Butetown in Cardiff, Wales
Cardiff's old dockside district took its present form in the early twentieth century. It paired brick worker housing with grain warehouses and coal staithes on a working waterfront, a similar layout to Locust Point's own mix of rowhouses and port buildings. The stone and slate common in Butetown are a different palette from Locust Point's brick, so this holds up better in a wide shot than a close one. Try searching dockside brick worker housing now.
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