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Exploring Baltimore’s Pratt Street Power Plant: From Bleak Times to Power Plant Live!

Published September 9, 2013

Take a journey through Baltimore's Pratt Street Power Plant! From the bleak times of the late 1980s/early 1990s to today's commercialized Power Plant Live, explore the history of this amazing building.

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Check out the Pratt Street Power Plant back in the day. These were bleak times. The Library of Congress site didn’t have a date associated with this, but I’m going to guess it’s sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s? What do you think?

Pratt Street power plant

And below is a more recent photo of the overly-commercialized building today.

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Power Plant Live!

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