Montgomery_Ward_Warehouse_and_Retail_Store

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store

United States historic place

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store is a historic warehouse and retail building in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an eight-story (plus penthouse) concrete structure and is roughly shaped like a squared-off number "4". The front features a penthouse tower at the main entrance bay with a balcony and capped by a flagpole. The building houses over 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m2) of floor space flooded by light from approximately 1,000 large multi-paned, steel frame windows. It was built about 1925 as a mail order and retail warehouse for Montgomery Ward on an 11 acres (4.5 ha) site adjacent to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks.[2] The complex was one of nine large warehouses built by the company in the United States.[3]

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From 2001 to 2002, the vacant warehouse was restored as an office building by Himmelrich Associates, Inc. for Maryland Department of the Environment, M&T Bank and other tenants.

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

  • Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store, December 2011

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Montgomery Ward Warehouse". An Engineer's Guide to Baltimore. Baltimore, MD: Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  3. [3]
    Fred B. Shoken (February 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-04-01.


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