United States Appraisers' Stores, 103 South Gay Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Summary
Significance: The United States Appraisers' Stores was constructed in 1935 by the U.S. Treasury Department to provide space for storing, appraising, and inspecting imported merchandise brought through the Port of Baltimore. The building is eight stories tall and contains a flat-plate, reinforced concrete structural system and a brick exterior, designed in the Art Deco style. It replaced an earlier similar, but much smaller, building of the same function.
Survey number: HABS MD-1095
Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1935 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. General Services Administration
U.S. Treasury Department
Bounds, A Pierce, photographer
Bowie, John R, delineator
Location
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 39.29038, -76.61219
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html