Cultural Center/State Center (State Center was not part of the station's original name) is a Downtown Baltimore Station with a walking connection to the Baltimore Metro's State Center station located a two block walk down Preston Street. The station consists of two side platforms along the east side of parallel Howard Street. These begin at the intersection with Park Avenue and run south. The southbound platform is just an enlarged sidewalk with no amenities on the platform.
The northbound platform contains a single shelter. This shelter has a circular roof. When I first visited the station in 2009 it was painted blue with white accents along the roof. The shelter covered a set of orange tip-up/leaning on type of seats for waiting passengers to get some support. When I visited in 2024 the shelter was painted black, had new white lettering that says “Cultural Center/State Center” and simpler metal squares for seating. There is also a shelter covering two TVMs next to the main shelter on only the Northbound platform.
Photos 1 & 2: June 16, 2009; 3-14: October 10, 2015;
A Shuttle train to Camden Yards approaches
LRV #5047 leading a southbound train
The northern end of the Cultural Center platforms
The mini-high platform at one end of the Cultural Center station
A Cultural Center Southbound platform sign
Looking across to the Cultural Center Northbound platform canopy, with some leaning benches underneath it
Lean benches painted orange on the Cultural Center platform shelter
Advertisements and a fading Cultural Center platform sign
One end of the Cultural Center Northbound platform sign
Looking down to the mid-platform pedestrian crossing long beyond a stopped LRV
A Cromwell 28 sign and the mid-platform pedestrian grade-crossing
Looking across to the now black (with metal slightly better benches) shelter next to some TVMs
A Southbound train leaves the station
A platform sign for Cultural Center: Southbound, and sign for Meyerhoff, Symphony Hall At This Stop sign
Looking across the platforms at Cultural Center, the Northbound platform has ADA ramps at both ends, I guess for short-turning trains
Looking across to the Closed High Bridge at the southern end of the Northbound paltform
A little sign on a pole near the station for the Transfer to Metro (M)
The pedestrian crossing between two different High Bridges with No Clearence and Do Not Sit
Last Updated: March 22, 2025
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