Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 99001078 Added to NRHP 3 September 1999 | Built 1899 (1899) Opened 1899 | |
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Location 226-232 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, Maryland Architectural styles Renaissance architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture Similar Hutzler Brothers Palace B, Emerson Bromo‑Seltzer Tower, Balti Museum of Industry, Royal Farms Arena, Maryland Historical Society | ||
Stewart's Department Store, also known as the Posner Building, is a historic department store building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Catholic Relief Services is currently headquartered there.
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Architecture
The Stewart's Department Store structure was designed in 1899 by Charles E. Cassell and is a six story brick and terra cotta steel-framed building detailed in a highly ornate Italian Renaissance Revival style. It features an exuberant ornamental detail includes fluted Ionic and Corinthian columns, lion heads, caryatids, wreaths, garlands, cartouches, and an elaborate bracketed cornice.
History
This building served as the flagship store for Stewart’s Baltimore operations and anchored Baltimore’s premier downtown retail location at Lexington and Howard Streets.
Stewart's Department Store Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.