Category: Baltimore

American Brewery Building – Baltimore

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

I had saved this picture on my phone – I don’t recall where it came from so I can’t give credit to the photographer at this time

Beginning of the New Domino Sugar sign

The LED sign will replace the landmark neon sign near the harbor in Baltimore. The South Baltimore Peninsula Post has been covering it. Check out their posts on Instagram.

Baltimore Salt Box update 4/15/21

The first Orioles Opening Day in 1954

Opening day of the baseball season is great. I have been to about a dozen of them in Baltimore, all but one at Memorial Stadium.

Baltimore’s Bromo Seltzer Tower

Baltimore’s Bromo Seltzer Tower was part of the Bromo Seltzer factory downtown. The factory is gone and the tower now houses artist studios. The design was based on the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. There used to be a Bromo Seltzer bottle at the top.

It is lit purple during Ravens playoff runs
Photo I took in the 1970s
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmRs03lrAAJ/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Hotel