My name is Todd, I am a Baltimore based photographer enthralled by our nations forgotten past. I travel the US documenting forgotten, and historic places, in the hope to preserve them forever through photography. I've grown up in rural Maryland but have always had a certain draw to the city, it's diversity and history alone are enough to bring someone like me to the point I am at now.
Every day in Baltimore a family is evicted; their home, boarded up; their work place, abandoned. The failing economy of a once great city is something that should be documented, because the one day it manages to rise from the ashes, people are going to want to see what it came from. Without documenting and preserving these buildings and moments in time, this stage of Baltimore would be forever lost.
This is Mob Town Preservation.
Morrison Police Station
The “Morrison Police
Station” first opened it’s doors in 1884; at the time it was Mob Town's largest
station. It was the eighth of nine districts within the city’s police
department, and was home to an almost star studded team of officers.
Baltimore's Finest in 1889.
These 4 good men were the pick of
Baltimore's Police Force in the year of grace 1889. Left to right they are: Sergeant
Timothy Broderick, Patrolman F. Stallings, Round Sergeant H. Morhiser, and Captain of the “Morrison Police” District, Sergeant William Russell.
An officer by the name of
James Kinsella, from Wicklow, Ireland, came to America in 1850. At the age of
eleven, James walked from Philadelphia to Baltimore, joined the 71st
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and fought many major campaigns in the Civil War. He was wounded in the Battle
of Antietam, returned to war for Gettysburg where he was taken prisoner at
Cemetery Ridge. James survived the war and became a Baltimore City Police Officer, serving the city, along side many others, in the “Morrison Police Station”
district.
Officer James Kinsella, 4th from left in the 3rd
row.
The police station moved in
1959, where the building you now see began to operate under many different
uses. Although the building had countless offices and companies moving in and
out, it still holds the original design of the police station. In the basement,
it is almost like a time capsule of what the station once was. Old double
layered, wooden door cells with arched brick ceilings; and an open brick shower
room, with collapsed wood benches. The “Morrison Police Station” is a
building clad with history and beautiful architecture. The hope is someone
will realize, and recognize this before it’s too late.
Work Cited:
Ingram, Margret. “Baltimore City Police Districs”
Baltimore City Police History. http://baltimorecitypolicehistory.com
Unknown. Web. Oct, 28th. 2014.
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