Locust Point Latrobe Park
— a small green square that holds its block.
Not only on a wall.
Locust Point Latrobe Park, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A four-acre park at the center of Locust Point, ringed by formstone and brick row houses, with a 1909 brick fieldhouse on the south edge and big plane trees that lean out over the sidewalks. The Domino Sugars sign glows red across the basin to the north at night. Kids ride bikes around the loop after dinner. The grain pier and Fort McHenry are a short walk south, where the peninsula runs out into the harbor.
The place, in three passes.
Latrobe Park sits at the center of Locust Point, a working peninsula that runs from the south side of the Inner Harbor out to Fort McHenry. The park covers about four and a half acres bounded by Fort, Beason, Andre, and Towson streets, surrounded on all four sides by tight row-house blocks. It is named for Ferdinand C. Latrobe, who served seven terms as mayor of Baltimore between 1875 and 1895 and helped acquire the land. The neighborhood grew up around the B&O railroad terminus and the immigrant pier where many Eastern European families first stepped onto American ground.
The Latrobe Park Field House on the south edge of the park is a small red-brick recreation building completed in 1909 in a restrained Colonial Revival style. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as part of the broader story of Progressive-era municipal parks. Surrounding the lawn are row houses faced in red brick and the gray, pebbled formstone that became a Baltimore signature in the 1940s, marble stoops kept scrubbed, and big London plane trees with their patchwork bark leaning over the sidewalks.
The park is open dawn to dusk and is a quiet local space rather than a destination. From the south end of the lawn, Fort McHenry National Monument is about a mile down the peninsula, the site where Francis Scott Key watched the September 1814 bombardment that became the national anthem. To the north across the basin sits the lit Domino Sugars sign, in use since 1951 and a Baltimore landmark in its own right. Best photographed in the hour after sunset, when the sign comes up red against the row-house roofs.
