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United States Appraisers' Stores, 103 South Gay Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

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United States Appraisers' Stores, 103 South Gay Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

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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

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1935 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. General Services Administration
U.S. Treasury Department
Bounds, A Pierce, photographer
Bowie, John R, delineator
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Location

Baltimore, Maryland, United States39.29038, -76.61219
Google Map of 39.2903848, -76.61218930000001
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Library of Congress
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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

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