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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building

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837: 242: 217: 267: 358:, United States. It is the former headquarters of the old Consolidated Gas, Light and Electric Power Company of Baltimore City, which was a merger at the turn of the 20th century of the former century old Gas Light Company of Baltimore with several other formerly competing gas and electric power companies which had risen in the late 19th century, to form a single metropolitan wide unified utility system. In 1955, the old cumbersome Consolidated title was jettisoned and the utility rebranded as the 1047: 1057: 844: 274: 249: 224: 624: 29: 1091: 935: 940: 950: 1010: 995: 865: 1005: 1000: 960: 930: 900: 970: 905: 870: 965: 945: 880: 860: 774: 386:. It was constructed with a structural steel skeleton and tile arch flooring structure. The exterior is clad with gray granite and gray and white marble from the first through third floors (including the mezzanine) and glazed 915: 910: 895: 885: 875: 955: 920: 1027: 890: 925: 990: 767: 986: 1050: 787: 760: 663: 216: 826: 816: 105: 266: 241: 1032: 1086: 656: 1101: 1096: 1060: 649: 811: 672: 383: 405: 783: 728: 440: 398: 198: 530: 628: 579: 394:
Classical Style. The building includes sculptures at the fourth floor representing "knowledge", "light", "heat" and "power."
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It was purchased in 2006 and reopened in 2007 as luxury apartments complete with two penthouse levels by
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Entrance to building at 39 West Lexington Street (southeast corner with North Liberty Street)
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore
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designed by the Boston and Baltimore-based architectural firm of
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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building was listed on the
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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building, Baltimore City
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Category:National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Beaux-Arts architecture
Baltimore
Maryland
Coordinates
39°17′28″N 76°37′02″W / 39.2912°N 76.6171°W / 39.2912; -76.6171
Parker, Thomas & Rice
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building is located in Baltimore
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building is located in Maryland
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building is located in the United States
03001325
office building
Baltimore
Maryland
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company
skyscraper
Parker, Thomas and Rice
Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower
tallest building in Baltimore
terra cotta
Beaux-Arts
National Register of Historic Places
Fisher, Nes, Campbell & Associates
Southern Management Companies


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service

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