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- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Headquarters Building, 2 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
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Parker and Thomas
Parker, J Harleston
Thomas, Douglas H
Murray, Oscar
Hale and Rogers
Hale, Herbert Dudley
Rogers, James Gamble
Excelsior Terra Cotta
Rosenthal, James W, photographer
Ossman, J Laurie, historian
Title
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Headquarters Building, 2 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Depicted place Maryland; Independent City; Baltimore
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS MD-1122-11
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  • Significance: Historically, this structure was the headquarters of the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O;) Railroad. The B&O; was significant not only as America's first railroad (founded 1827) but also as the pre-eminent driving force behind Baltimore's importance as a commercial center in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Architecturally, the 1905-6 building's thirteen-story height was a local novelty at the time, and its well-publicized "fireproof" construction was clearly a material reaction to the 1904 Great Fire that destroyed the company's previous headquarters building, two blocks to the east of the present site. The Beaux-Arts design by architects Parker and Thomas of Boston and Baltimore, exemplifies the style which defined the city's rebuilt commercial center, and the building is also the only known Baltimore work of associated architect James Gamble Rogers, who later established a reputation as a premier "image maker" architect for America's corporate elite and for Yale University.
  • Survey number: HABS MD-1122
  • Building/structure dates: 1905-1906 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1983-1984 Subsequent Work
Source http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/md/md1500/md1569/photos/210755pu.tif
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Object location39° 17′ 23.39″ N, 76° 36′ 55.26″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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