Robert Baker Park

Robert Baker Park is a pocket park on the northern perimeter of Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is very near the foot of Federal Hill Park, south of the city's central business district, and close to the city's Inner Harbor. It sits within the Federal Hill Montgomery Street Historic District, which was elevated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. In contrast to its small size, the park is a reminder of the significant and successful effort in the early 1970s to mediate between Federal transportation initiatives - that had proposed fourteen lanes of traffic through historic Federal Hill and a tunnel underneath the city's prominent and historic Federal Hill Park - and concerted local advocacy and activism on behalf of the community. The pocket park is named after Robert Lewis Baker, an early and vocal activist for Federal Hill and the neighborhoods of South Baltimore; widely recognized horticulturalist and botanist at the University of Maryland and prominent resident of the Federal Hill neighborhood.