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Pine Street Station, built in 1877, is the home of the UMB Department of Police and Public Safety. The building, which originally was a court and jail, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Over the past 150 years, the station has served as the Baltimore Police Department’s Western District Station House, a detention center for women and children, the city’s Missing Persons Bureau, and a subsidized drug abuse rehabilitation center. The building sat vacant for 20 years before UMB acquired it from the city of Baltimore through a real estate swap for the H.L. Mencken House in the early 1980s.
The University spent more than $1.4 million restoring the building. In February 1991, UMB Police and Public Safety moved into the Victorian building, which at the time housed administrative offices, the police communications center, and the photo ID office.
Today, Pine Street Station is the administrative headquarters for UMB Police and Public Safety, which includes the Office of the Fire Marshal.
Pine Street Annex, located next door at 222 N. Pine St., is the department’s operational headquarters for police, security, and dispatch, as well as the University’s Office of Emergency Management.