Type Commercial offices Roof 67 m (220 ft) Height 67 m Floors 16 Architecture firm D. H. Burnham & Company | Antenna spire 76 m (249 ft) Floor count 16 Opened 1900 Added to NRHP 3 February 1983 | |
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Former names Continental Trust BuildingThe Continental BuildingMercantile Trust Building Similar Balti Gas and Electric C, B&O Railroad Headqua, Bank of America Building, Commerce Place (Balti), Transamerica Tower | ||
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.
Map of One Calvert Plaza, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
Continental Trust Company Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is within the Baltimore National Heritage Area.