One Charles Center is one of a few Baltimore buildings designed by Mies Van Der Rohe. Charles Center was an area that was built to revive the business district downtown. One Charles Center was constructed in 1962. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places.
It may be redeveloped into apartments. It was auctioned on April 18, 2024.
From An Engineer’s Guide to Baltimore
Historic American Buildings Survey
The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles has been used in many films. It was built in 1893. I remember it best from Blade Runner.
I am a big admirer of the Guild House in Philadelphia and have posted about it.
The Gateway Arch was completed in 1965 and opened to the public in 1967. I saw it in the summer of 1967. The arch was designed by architect Eero Saarinen and intended to be a monument to westward expansion. It’s really beautiful and would be a lot more well known if you could see someplace more famous such as New York instead of St. Louis.
ArchCam – a live webcam
The Clifton Mansion was built in the 1800s. It’s now part of a city park. The four photos are ones I took in the 1970s.
pictures I took in the 1970s
The Clifton Park Valve House was part of the Baltimore water system. It is now dilapidated.
Preservation Maryland | Endangered: Valve House in Clifton Park
National Register Properties in Maryland
Baltimore’s Hebrew Orphan Asylum is another large building that was abandoned but finally saved and renovated. Baltimore Heritage made a video history.
The American Brewery Building is a unique huge building in a residential neighborhood on the east side of Baltimore. It was opened as a brewery in 1887. It was empty for decades before it was renovated for a non-profit organization. Baltimore Heritage has written about it and made the video below.
I worked nearby in the 1970s and passed it on the bus hundreds of times. There was a full page photo if it in the outstanding book America’s Forgotten Architecture (1976).
The building was also in David Mamet’s 1991 film Homicide.
Historic American Buildings Survey
Sad! 