Gay Street Historic District

Gay Street Historic District is a national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a notable example of a late-19th and early-20th century commercial corridor in a developing urban area. It includes a high concentration of small-scale commercial buildings or light manufacturing enterprise structures. It contains buildings displaying Victorian Eclectic, Beaux Arts, Italianate, and Romanesque elements, including two full-front, cast-iron buildings.^[2]

Gay Street Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Buildings at Gay and Exeter Street, March 2012
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Location	Bounded by N. Gay, Fallsway, Low and N. Exeter Sts., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates	39°17′35″N 76°36′26″W
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)
Architect	Davis, Frank E.
Architectural style	Federal, Late Victorian
MPS	Cast Iron Architecture of Baltimore MPS
NRHP reference No.	03001173[1]
Added to NRHP	November 21, 2003

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Stephanie Foell and Judith Robinson (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Gay Street Historic District" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-04-01.

External links

• Gay Street Historic District, Baltimore City, including photo dated 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Boundary Map of the Gay Street Historic District, Baltimore City, at Maryland Historical Trust