Fallsway Viaduct & Fountain

Fallsway Viaduct & Fountain
Site Information
Address	1168 Guilford Ave
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Type of facility	Bridge
People
Landscape Architect	Theodore Wells Pietsch
Dates
Opened to Public	1916

There was a precursor to the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83), and that was the Fallsway Viaduct, designed by Theodore Wells Pietsch in 1912. When the Fallsway Viaduct was finished in 1916, it replaced 12 older bridges, spanning from Mount Royal Avenue to Baltimore Street. It covered Jones Falls, which had become an open sewer that was prone to flooding. The viaduct was an enormous engineering feat. Today, the Fallsway Fountain (the statue of which was done by Hans Schuler) can be seen at the offramp near Biddle Street and Guilford Avenue.

Renderings of the viaduct were published in the Baltimore Sun on June 2, 1913.

The fountain can still be seen today.