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Has been the tallest building in Baltimore and Maryland since 1973. Tallest building in the city constructed in the 1970s. In 2011, the building was renamed the Transamerica Tower. [1] [5] 2 Bank of America Building (10 Light Street) 509 (155) 37 1924 Tallest building in Baltimore constructed in the 1920s. [6] [7] 3 414 Light Street: 500 (152.4 ...
The Emerson Tower (often called the Bromo-Seltzer Tower or the Bromo Tower) is a 15-story, 88 m (289 ft) clock tower erected in 1907–1911 at 21 South Eutaw Street, at the northeast corner of Eutaw and West Lombard Streets in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. It was the tallest building in the city from 1911 to 1923, until supplanted by the ...
Its 1895 home was located next to the first downtown campus of The Johns Hopkins University along North Howard Street, between West Centre, Little Ross and West Monument Streets, from 1876 to c. 1914, until moving to Homewood. City College served as an unofficial "prep school" for J.H.U. during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
The building, originally built in 1910, had previously been used as a diner under the names Tuttle House and Open House. [2] [3] Un Kim, who immigrated from South Korea in the 1970s, [4] bought the building in 1994, and asked her friend from the Maryland Institute College of Art, David Briskie, to design the building's interior.
Johnston Building, Baltimore City, including photo from 1989, at Maryland Historical Trust; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-1118, "Johnston Buildings, 26-28 South Howard Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD", 4 photos, 1 photo caption page
Charles Center is a large-scale urban redevelopment project in central Baltimore's downtown business district of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Beginning in 1954, a group called the "Committee for Downtown" promoted a master plan for arresting the commercial decline of central Baltimore.
Haussner's Restaurant was opened by William Henry Haussner in 1926 and became one of Baltimore's most famous landmarks over the next 73 years. [1] [2] [3] [4]The restaurant was closed in 1999, and its collection of 19th-century European and American paintings, which included pieces from the estates of J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Walters, was auctioned by Sotheby's in New York ...
Preston Gardens landscaped terraces constructed on five square blocks north to south of razed / cleared townhouses and educational / cultural instructions along with several churches on the northern edge of downtown during the early 1920s, were named for James H. Preston (1860–1938), who was the 37th Mayor of the City of Baltimore (served ...