page_title: Charles Street (Baltimore)
section_title: North Avenue to Lutherville
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Street (Baltimore) / Route description / North Avenue to Lutherville
caption_attribution_description: Sign in front of the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University.
context_page_description: Charles Street, known for most of its route as Maryland Route 139, runs through Baltimore City and through the Towson area of Baltimore County. On the north end it terminates at an intersection with Bellona Avenue near Interstate 695 and at the south end it terminates in Federal Hill in Baltimore. Charles Street is one of the major routes through the city of Baltimore, and is a major public transportation corridor. For the one-way portions of Charles Street, the street is functionally complemented by the parallel St. Paul Street, Maryland Avenue, Cathedral Street, and Liberty Street.
  Though not exactly at the west–east midpoint of the city, Charles Street is considered to be the division between the west and east sides of Baltimore. On any street that crosses Charles Street, address numbers start from the unit block on either side, and the streets are identified as either "West" or "East," depending on whether they are to the west or east of Charles. The entire length of Charles Street is a National Scenic Byway known as Baltimore's Historic Charles Street.
context_section_description: Charles Street continues as northbound MD 139 through the Charles North neighborhood, where the street passes the Old Goucher College Buildings. The street is paralleled by Maryland Avenue to the west and St. Paul Street to the east, the latter being southbound MD 139. Charles Street continues into Charles Village. At 29th Street, Maryland Avenue merges into Charles Street, which becomes a divided boulevard that contains three lanes northbound and one lane southbound. St. Paul Street, which serves as the main commercial street of the neighborhood, becomes two lanes southbound and one lane northbound at 31st Street and passes Union Memorial Hospital. The boulevard passes between the main part of Charles Village and auxiliary Johns Hopkins University buildings to the east and the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University, and the campus's Homewood Museum to the west. North of 33rd Street, Charles and St. Paul streets enter the Homewood neighborhood, where they each have oblique intersections with University Parkway, which leads northwest to the First Church of Christ, Scientist and the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame at the northern end of the Hopkins campus.
  Charles Street and St. Paul Street continue north as two-way, four-lane streets through the well wooded residential neighborhoods of Tuscany-Canterbury to the west of Charles Street and Guilford to the east. North of the Highfield House Condominium, Charles Street splits, with southbound traffic using Charles Street proper, which passes the Calvert School, and northbound traffic continuing straight on Charlcote Road, which intersects St. Paul Street, which had curved to the east and veered back northwest within the Guilford neighborhood. Both directions of MD 139 follow St. Paul Street to its northern end at Charles Street and Overhill Road. Two blocks north of the junction, four-lane undivided Charles Street intersects Cold Spring Lane. The street continues through the campus of Loyola University Maryland; the two sides of the campus are connected by a pedestrian bridge. Charles Street passes the Evergreen Museum & Library before passing between the Blytheville neighborhood to the west and Notre Dame of Maryland University (formerly College of Notre Dame of Maryland, or CONDOM). Charles Street continues north between Homeland and Wyndhurst, the latter the home of the Friends School of Baltimore and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. The street intersects Northern Parkway and Lake Avenue, which leads to the Boys' Latin School of Maryland, and passes between two more neighborhoods, The Orchards to the west and Bellona-Gittings to the east, before leaving the city of Baltimore and entering Baltimore County.
  North of Elkridge Hunt Club, whose golf course lies to the west, Charles Street passes through the hamlet of Woodbrook, within which lies the historic home Tyrconnell on Lake Roland to the west. At Bellona Avenue, which heads northwest as MD 134, Charles Street becomes a four-lane divided highway that passes through an S-curve within a forested area. The highway passes to the west of Greater Baltimore Medical Center and The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, then intersects Towsontown Boulevard, which leads to the old alignment of Charles Street, Charles Street Avenue, and both Towson University and the center of Towson. Charles Street veers northwest past the Loyola Blakefield school and north again to the top of a ridge where the highway passes under Joppa Road. That road is accessed at the following intersection with Bellona Road, which heads west and then south toward Riderwood and Ruxton, and Kenilworth Drive, which heads east toward the center of Towson. Charles Street has a partial cloverleaf interchange with I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) before meeting a disjoint segment of Bellona Avenue at an intersection with traffic lights (for the better part of a decade traffic was managed by a roundabout) on the southern edge of Lutherville. Bellona Avenue heads west toward a ramp to westbound I-695 and east to receive an exit ramp
caption: Johns Hopkins University sign
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