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When the B&O Headquarters Building was completed, it was the second tallest structure in Baltimore to the 16 story 249 foot Continental Trust Company Building, two blocks away at 201 East Baltimore St., which was constructed in 1900–1901 to designs prepared by the Chicago skyscraper architect D.H. Burnham and Company. [7]
The Old Ship Hotel, c. 1899. The Old Ship Hotel is believed to date from 1559, as an unnamed house owned by Richard and John Gilham. [1] [2] It is the oldest hotel in Brighton, and the first known record was in 1665. [2] [3] The building was purchased in 1671 by Nicholas Tettersell, who owned the boat Charles II used to get to France.
Charlie Brown's was the common name for the Railway Tavern pub in Limehouse, London. The pub was built c. 1840 on the corner of Garford Street and the West India Dock Road and greatly extended in 1919. The pub was demolished in November 1989 during construction of the Limehouse Link tunnel.
Courtesy of Visit Baltimore There are two things you must do in Baltimore: eat Maryland's famous blue crabs and visit the Inner Harbor, a historic seaport now lined with museums and other attractions.
The hotel was managed by Radisson Hotels through much of the 1990s as the Radission Plaza Lord Baltimore. The FDIC sold the hotel to Universal Equities, a Washington, D.C. group, in 1992 for $8.5 million. [6] Universal, in turn, sold the hotel in January 1997 for $30 million. [6] The new owners, Davidson Hotels, ended the association with ...
The Belvedere is a Beaux Arts style building in Baltimore, Maryland.Designed by the Boston architectural firm of Parker and Thomas and built in 1902–1903, the Belvedere is a Baltimore City Landmark at the southeast corner of North Charles Street, facing north on East Chase Street in the city's fashionable Mount Vernon-Belvedere-Mount Royal neighborhood.
It has been called one of the most significant collections of railroad treasures in the world and has the largest collection of 19th-century locomotives in the U.S. [3] [4] The museum is located in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's old Mount Clare Station and adjacent roundhouse, and retains 40 acres of the B&O's sprawling Mount Clare Shops ...
Harborplace was designed by Benjamin C. Thompson and was built by The Rouse Company near the former Light Street site of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company's steamship terminal and docks. Because the land was owned by the city and was in an area designated as a park in the city charter, a citywide referendum was required to proceed with the ...