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Hendler Creamery
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Hendler Creamery in 2011
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| Location: | 1100 E. Baltimore St. & 1107 E. Fayette St., Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Area: | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built: | 1892 |
| Architectural style: | Romanesque, Early Commercial |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 07001032[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | December 20, 2007 |
Hendler Creamery is a historic industrial complex located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It consists of two adjacent building complexes. The original building complex encompasses a full city block, contains a 59,340-square-foot (5,513 m2) brick Romanesque Revival cable car powerhouse built in 1892, with additions completed in 1915-20 and 1949. It is connected to a one-story brick building built in the 1960s. The other building complex is a 33,504-square-foot (3,112.6 m2) brick warehouse structure built from 1923 to 1927 The building's original use as a cable-car powerhouse for the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company from 1892 to 1898 played an important role in Baltimore's transportation history. After the replacement of the cable car by electric trolleys, it was then converted by James Lawrence Kernan (1838-1912), who originally operated the venue as the Convention Hall Theater. It operated primarily as a Yiddish theater from 1903 to 1912, serving the largely Jewish immigrant population. Some of the city's earliest motion pictures were shown there by Kernan. In 1912, it was purchased by the Hendler Ice Cream Company and converted to the country's first fully automated ice cream factory.[2]
Hendler Creamery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
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