Martick's Restaurant Francais
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Martick's Restaurant Francais (previously known as Martick's Lower Tyson Street Tavern) is a defunct restaurant and historic building in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The 2,860 square-foot Federal style building was built no later than 1852.[1][2] After serving a variety of uses over the decades, the structure opened as a French restaurant on July 9, 1970.[3] Over its decades as a bar and restaurant, Martick's was known as an artists' refuge, "a tiny isle of Bohemia set in a conservative city."[4] So steeped in the particular culture of its city in the 20th century, the restaurant was referred to as "the Natty Boh of French dining in Baltimore."[3]
Martick's Restaurant Francais | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | 1970 (1970) |
Closed | 2008 (2008) |
Previous owner(s) | Morris Martick |
Chef | Morris Martick |
Food type | French cuisine |
Street address | 214 West Mulberry St |
City | Baltimore |
State | Maryland |
Coordinates | 39°17′38.75″N 76°37′08.10″W |
The building is located within the city's Bromo Arts District,[2] and is within the Market Center district listed in the National Register of Historic Places,[5][6] as well as the locally designated Howard Street Commercial Historic District.[7] While not itself a designated landmark, Martick's was one of the historic structures used to justify the Howard Street district when it was proposed in 2018.[8] Writing in the context of the demolition of many of its neighboring buildings (both in the 20th and 21st centuries), a 2018 Baltimore Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) report described Martick's as "the only remaining vestige of the historic appearance of the street."[5]