U.S. Coast Guard Yard, Building No. 8, Corner of Billard & Shoemaker Avenues, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Summary
Significance: Erected at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard during World War II to accommodate the needs of heavy industry, Building 8 is an example of a multiple-use structure influenced by early 20th-century international industrial building design.
Survey number: HABS MD-1040-A
Building/structure dates: 1981 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1969 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1939- before 1942 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Coast Guard
Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc., contractor
Lebovich, Bill, photographer
Knobeloch of Baltimore , photographer
Chappel, Jill A, historian
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