One Calvert Plaza

One Calvert Place
One Calvert Place viewed from The Bank of America Building
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°W / 39.2897; -76.6122Coordinates: 39°17′23″N 76°36′44″W / 39.2897°N 76.6122°W / 39.2897; -76.6122
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 Thompson-Starret Company
Continental Trust Company Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1 S. Calvert St. Baltimore, Maryland
Built	1900
NRHP Reference #	83002930^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 03, 1983
References
^[2]^[3]^[4]

One Calvert Plaza, formerly the Continental Trust Company Building, is an 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.^[5] 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.^[1] It is within the Baltimore National Heritage Area.^[6]

References

1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ One Calvert Plaza at Emporis
↑ One Calvert Plaza at SkyscraperPage
↑ One Calvert Plaza at Structurae
↑ "Maryland Historical Trust". Continental Trust Company Building, Baltimore City. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-11-21.
↑ "Baltimore National Heritage Area Map" (PDF). City of Baltimore. Retrieved March 11, 2012.

External links

Continental Trust Company Building, Baltimore City, including photo from 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust
Historical Marker Database

Timeline of the tallest buildings in Baltimore

Fidelity Building (67 m) (1893) One Calvert Plaza (76 m) (1901) Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower (88 m) (1911) Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building (88 m) (1915) Silo Point (94 m) (1923) Bank of America Building (155 m) (1924) Transamerica Tower (161 m) (1973)

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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Lists by county	Allegany Anne Arundel Baltimore County Calvert Caroline Carroll Cecil Charles Dorchester Frederick Garrett Harford Howard Kent Montgomery Prince George's Queen Anne's Somerset St. Mary's Talbot Washington Wicomico Worcester

Lists by city	Baltimore: (Central North and Northwest West and Southwest East and Northeast South and Southeast)

Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Portal:National Register of Historic Places

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