Baltimore County Legacy Web
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Obituaries   12123D02
A published obituary of March 11, 1902 for Carrie Maude Cuddy (1888-1902), daughter of Wesley R Cuddy and Rachel Cuddy.
Octoberfest - Catonsville   26647355
Cookout for German Children's Home annual bull roast.
Office Buildings - Owings Mills   26185069
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, later renamed CareFirst, at 10455 Mill Run Circle in Owings Mills.
Office Buildings - Towson   DA_00402
502 Baltimore Avenue
Offices - Parkville   DA_00360
to be added
Offices & Office Buildings   WR_c&p
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. building in the city remains a prominent downtown landmark.
Offices & Office Buildings   WR_2433
The Preston Gardens are viewed from 2433 St. Paul Street in the City.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore   26920024
Designed by Joseph Sperry in 1907 for Captain Isaac Emerson, the inventor of Bromo Seltzer, this landmark is illuminated at night and clearly seen from both the Orioles and the Ravens stadiums. It was patterned after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Lately the City is having it remodeled for use as artists' studios.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7707001
The Hansa Haus located at 2 East Redwood Street in Baltimore City was built in 1907 for the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Parker, Thomas & Rice were the architects. The building had been used in recent years as a satellite of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   24717041
The old Baltimore & Ohio Building was at Lexington and Calvert Streets in Baltimore City. Barnum's Hotel is seen at the middle right distance. The B&O building was designed in 1884 by Ephraim Francis Baldwin and Josias Pennington. It was lost in the great fire of 1904.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7569009
The Tower Building at 222 East Baltimore Street, was built, 1905-1912, for the Maryland Casualty Co. by Parker & Thomas with Otto B. Simonson assisting. It was demolished in the 1980s.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   24707001
This 1887 photo of the old Sun iron building was copied from a rotogravure article in the Sun (date not known). The building was located at South and Baltimore Streets and was destroyed in the 1904 fire.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   8416013
The Philipsborn Building at the Southeast corner of Lexington and Liberty Streets in Baltimore City. The company was listed in the 1910 City Directory as manufacturers of ladies' cloaks, suits, skirts and waists. By 1916 the site was being used by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company's tower.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7384001
The Maryland Casualty Building, west 40th street, east of Falls road, was designed by Otto G. Simonson. In 1920, It was recycled into a shopping mall known as the Rotunda.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7569019
The Bromo Seltzer Tower at Eutaw & Lombard Streets, designed by Joseph Sperry and built in1907. The design was inspired by the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and the tower was built for Captain Isaac Emerson, who patented that renowned hangover remedy. The structure was used in the 1970s and 1980s by the Baltimore City Arts Commission and is planned for rehab into artist studios.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7707005
Hansa Haus, built in 1907 for the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, at 2 East Redwood Street in Baltimore. The gabled, timbered, quasi-German lodge (Parker, Thomas & Rice, architects) owned by the Savings Bank of Baltimore in the 1970s, became a satellite of the Baltimore Museum of Art in the 1980s.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7569054
Hansa Haus at 2 East Redwood Street in Baltimore City. It was built in 1907 for the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Parker, Thomas & Rice were the architects. The building has been used in recent years as a satellite of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7569053
Hansa Haus at 2 East Redwood Street in Baltimore City. It was built in 1907 for the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Parker, Thomas & Rice were the architects. The building has been used in recent years as a satellite of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7707007
The gabled, timbered, quasi-German architecture of Hansa House was the design of Parker, Thomas and Rice for the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Build in 1907, the structure became an adjunct to the adjacent Savings Bank of Baltimore during the 1970s. The Baltimore Museum of Art used it as a satellite during the 1980s.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7707006
The Hansa Haus at 2 East Redwood Street in Baltimore was built in 1907 for the North German Lloyd Steamship Co.. Parker, Thomas & Rice were the architects. In the 1970s, it was occupied by the adjacent Savings Bank of Baltimore, and in the 1980s by an annex of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7707004
The Hansa Haus at 2 East Redwood Street in Baltimore. It was built in 1907 for the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. Parker, Thomas & Rice were the architects. In the 1970s, Hansa House was occupied by the adjacent Savings Bank of Baltimore, and in the 1980s was an annex of the Balitmore Museum of Art.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   11162004
This second Chamber of Commerce building replaced the one destroyed by the 1904 great fire. It was designed by the firm of Charles E. Cassell and in 2000 was a part of the campus of the Baltimore International Culinary College.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   4558002
Gandy Belting Company factory at 726 W. Pratt Street, which was recycled in the l980s into the Sailcloth Factory.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   25160B28
The Van Building at14 North Charles Street in Baltimore. The structure has a European chalet design façade reminiscent of Parker, Thomas and Rice's 1912 Hansa Haus. House importers. Next door at 16 N. Charles may be seen William M Lohmeyer, Men’s Furnishings and Shirt Makers. The rather unusual entrance, with show windows on each side, has Art Nouveau design touches reminiscent of the turn of the century architects in Brussels or Barcelona.
Offices & Office Buildings - Baltimore City   7384029
The Baltimore Trust Building, later known successively as the Maryland National Bank Building, the Nations Bank Building and the M&T Bank Building, at 10 Light Street was designed in 1929 by Taylor, and Fisher and Smith and May. This view, probably from the 1930's or 1940's, was taken from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Building.

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