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Shot Tower/Market Place (new maps just say Shot Tower, the platform signs still include Market Place) is the one intermediate stop on the Baltimore Metro SubwayLink's most recent expansion. It opened as part of the third phase and final phase of construction for the Metro. The station opened on May 31, 1995, and has a very different feel than the rest of the underground stations opened mostly a dozen years earlier. The platform feels brighter, the floor is grey with brown accents. The track walls contain panels that are red and green and to me look like abstract images or scales of fish. These walls are designed in a way that gives perspective making the tops and bottoms of the panels bigger with the fish in the middle of the panels significantly smaller. The platform floor is grey with little brown diamonds, not dominated by brown and black like the stations built over a decade earlier.
To leave the platform two banks of staircases/an escalator, plus just a staircase, plus an elevator at one end of the mezzanine lead up to a full-length mezzanine above. This mezzanine also looks airier than other stations with pink walls, that contain green accents. This mezzanine contains one bank of fare gates in the middle mezzanine. Here an extended mezzanine leads out to passageways to two station exits across the wide strode of President Street with a wide median from each other.
One exit is located at the SE corner of President Street and Baltimore Street. Here an elevator and a bank of escalators plus a staircase lead up to a small plaza, the elevator at the corner, the escalators and staircase just facing away from the street. These are all clad in brick with lots of small casement-style windows in white frames. This entrance is designed to blend into the brick of the historic neighborhood surrounding the shot tower, which was the tallest structure when it was built in the United States in 1828 and is a few blocks away.
The other exit is located at the SW corner of President and Baltimore Streets. It has its own elevator (similar to older Metro Stations) before what feels like a vacant lot (completely fenced off with signs that it is state property) that leads back to a grander entrance with escalators and staircases up to pedestrianized Plowman's Street in front of the Port Discovery Children's Museum and the Market Place. This entrance has a white tent-like structure covering the entrance. This Marketplace leads south to Baltimore's Inner Harbor, two blocks south from the station.
Photos 1-6 taken on June 16, 2009; 7-35: August 31, 2024;
