Architect Sara Langmead will present the history of Charles Center, the urban redevelopment of Baltimore’s Central Business District that began in the 1950s and was a catalyst for the development of Inner Harbor.
Join Ziger|Snead Architects for a presentation on their award winning transformation of the historic Hoen Lithograph Building. Cross Street Partners, Strong City Baltimore, and City Life Historic Properties repurposed the 85,000 square foot historic Hoen & Co buildings as a lively mixed-use campus. The Hoen Lithograph campus now serves as The Center for Neighborhood Innovation (CNI), a new model for neighborhood transformation.
Please help us give away five micro-grants to advance good ideas in Baltimore. This is our fifth year of providing micro-grants and as we have done in past years, we’ll have five finalists provide three-minute “pitches” of their ideas... and then we will ask you to cast virtual ballots for your favorite. We’ll learn about some great initiatives underway in Baltimore and have a little fun helping them out. This is also Baltimore Heritage’s annual meeting where we elect board members and officers. It’s free and we hope you join us!
While few remember the slogan of the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Company—“If you keep late hours for Society’s sake Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache”—the iconic Bromo-Seltzer Tower has been a Baltimore landmark since its construction in 1911. At fifteen stories, the tower made the Bromo-Seltzer factory the tallest building in the city. The tower boasted a four-dial gravity clock that was the largest in the world (bigger, even, than London’s Big Ben) and was topped by a 51-foot revolving replica of the blue Bromo-Seltzer bottle, which was illuminated with 596 lights and could be seen 20 miles away.
