The building is located within the city's Bromo Arts District, and is within the Market Center district listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as well as the locally designated Howard Street Commercial Historic District.
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.' 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.' After serving a variety of uses over the decades, the structure opened as a French restaurant on July 9, 1970. The 2,860 square-foot Federal style building was built no later than 1852. Martick's Restaurant Francais (previously known as Martick's Lower Tyson Street Tavern) is a defunct restaurant and historic building in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
