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BOND STREET WHARF BUILDING

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2002, RTKL Associates. 901 S. Bond St.
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Designed by a prominent Maryland architectural firm, this industrial-scaled building was intended to create unconventional workspace to attract IT companies as part of a “Digital Harbor” campaign. It was built on the site of the former Terminal Warehouse (1900) that burned in 1992. The contemporary design is in keeping with the warehouse buildings that appeared along the Fell’s Point waterfront during the nineteenth century, a few of which remain, such as the adjacent Brown’s Wharf Warehouses (1822, 1868; 1621 Thames Street). Like its predecessors, the Bond Street Wharf building employs varying window types and sizes, belt courses, and other architectural features to lessen the impact of its grand scale and to blend with the surrounding commercial buildings. Perhaps its most distinctive feature is the broad multicolored painted banner that reflects the painted signage that historically appeared on warehouses and other commercial buildings throughout the city. To the west side is an open courtyard and welcoming greenspace that overlooks the harbor and faces the distinctive Levering and Company Coffee Warehouse (c. 1846; 1401 Thames Street), with its parapet-gable end facade, loading bays, and rounded corners.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "BOND STREET WHARF BUILDING", [Baltimore, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-BC71.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 195-195.

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