Baltimore ยท Fells Point
Pendry Baltimore
The city's 1914 Recreation Pier on Thames Street, which stood in as police headquarters in TV's Homicide; a 127-room hotel since 2017.
- Built
- 1914Built by the City of Baltimore as the Recreation Pier and opened August 20, 1914; converted to a hotel that opened in March 2017.
- Style
- Georgian Revival / Beaux-Arts
- Architect
- Theodore Wells Pietsch I
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 127
- Area
- Fells Point
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The City of Baltimore built the Recreation Pier for more than $1 million to a design by Theodore Wells Pietsch I, and it opened on August 20, 1914 with the harbormaster’s office below and a recreation center and dance hall above. It served the largely immigrant Fells Point community and was a landing for ferries carrying immigrants to the Locust Point immigration station. From 1993 to 1999 the building stood in as police headquarters in the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street. Sagamore Development bought it in 2014 and reopened it as the Sagamore Pendry in March 2017; Montage International acquired the hotel in September 2025 and renamed it Pendry Baltimore.
Good to know
- Address: 1715 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231
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