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Pennsylvania Railroad Company District Office Building, 200 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company District Office Building, 200 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

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Summary

Significance: Built to house administrative offices of the Baltimore headquarters of the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Railroad Company following the Great Fire of 1904, this structure was an early commission of the architectural firm of Parker & Thomas (later Parker, Thomas & Rice), the pre-eminent architects of Baltimore's Beaux-Arts commercial and financial structures in the first quarter of the 20th century.
Survey number: HABS MD-1125
Building/structure dates: 1905 Initial Construction

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Date

1905 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Parker & Thomas
Parker, J Harleston
Thomas, Douglas H
Cassatt, Alexander
Realty Improvement Company
Read Drug & Chemical Company
Rosenthal, James W, photographer
Ossman, J Laurie, historian
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Location

Baltimore, Maryland, United States41.20332, -77.19452
Google Map of 41.2033216, -77.1945247
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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