The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, colloquially referred to as BPI, Poly, and The Institute, is a US public high school founded in 1883. Established as an all-male manual trade / vocational high sch
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (as it appeared between 1913 and 1931 with the center section of the old original mansion of the Maryland School for the Blind from c. 1866 still standing) in its second of three geographic locations / buildings. On the north side of the 200 block of East North Avenue (formerly known as Boundary Avenue), occupied here 1913 to 1967. Additional replacement center wing and auditorium . gymnasium wing to the east constructed 1931. This structure complex later renamed after B.P.I. moved to Cold Spring Lane and Falls Road in 1967 and served 17 more years in the Baltimore City Public Schools system for various school facilities and renamed as the "Calvert Educational Center". It was partially razed and underwent major renovations / reconstruction in the mid-1980s to become the B.C.P.S. "Alice Pinderhughes Administrative Headquarters" (nicknamed "North Avenue"), on the site between
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's 1967 campus at northwest corner of West Cold Spring Lane and Falls Road (Maryland Route 25), alongside the Jones Falls stream to the west and elevated Jones Falls Expressway (Interstate 83) left – Burkert Hall (engineering building) obscured by trees, center – is the single story King Memorial Hall with outside decorative stone facade and school nameplate, to the right – is Dehuff Hall (academic building) – all renamed in 1983
Auditorium built 1966–1967, shared by Polytechnic Institute and Western High School students
Poly's Lumsden-Scott Stadium
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