Continental Trust Company Building
| One Calvert Place | |
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One Calvert Place viewed from The Bank of America Building
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| Former names | Continental Trust Building The Continental Building Mercantile Trust Building |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Location | 201 East Baltimore Street Baltimore, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°17′23″N 76°36′44″W / 39.2897°N 76.6122°WCoordinates: 39°17′23″N 76°36′44″W / 39.2897°N 76.6122°W |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 76 m (249 ft) |
| Roof | 67 m (220 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 16 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
D.H. Burnham & Company |
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Continental Trust Company Building
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| Location | 1 S. Calvert St. Baltimore, Maryland |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1900 |
| Architect | Burnham,D. H. & Co.; Thompson-Starret Company |
| Architectural style | Skyscraper |
| NRHP Reference # | 83002930 |
| Added to NRHP | February 3, 1983 |
| References | |
D.H. Burnham & Company
Thompson-Starret Company
One Calvert Plaza, formerly the Continental Trust Company Building, is a historic 16-story, 76 m (249 ft) skyscraper in Baltimore, Maryland. The Beaux-Arts, early modern office building was constructed with steel structural members clad with terra cotta fireproofing and tile-arch floors. Its namesake was chartered in 1898 and instrumental in merging several Baltimore light and gas companies into one city-wide system. It was constructed in 1900-1901 to designs prepared by D.H. Burnham and Company of Chicago and is a survivor of the 1904 fire that destroyed more than 100 acres (40 ha) in the present downtown financial district. When it was built in 1901, it was then the tallest building in Baltimore, and it kept that title until being surpassed by the iconic Bromo-Seltzer Tower of the Emerson Drug Company led by Capt. Isaac Edward Emerson, (1859-1931), the inventor of the stomach remedy and antacid, "Bromo-Seltzer" in 1911.
Continental Trust Company Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is within the Baltimore National Heritage Area.
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