List of tallest buildings in Baltimore
Appearance
| Skyline of Baltimore | |
|---|---|
Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 2025 | |
| Tallest building | 100 Light Street (1973) |
| Tallest building height | 529 ft (161.2 m) |
| First 150 m+ building | Bank of America Building (1929) |
| Number of tall buildings (2026) | |
| Taller than 100 m (328 ft) | 25 |
| Taller than 150 m (492 ft) | 4 |
| Number of tall buildings — feet | |
| Taller than 200 ft (61.0 m) | 73 |
| Taller than 300 ft (91.4 m) | 35 |


Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, with a metropolitan area population of 2.8 million. The city is home to most of Maryland's tallest buildings. The city has 73 buildings over 200 ft (61 m) in height as of 2026. 35 of them exceed 300 ft (91 m) in height, the most of any city in the Mid-Atlantic outside the metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. Four skyscrapers exceed 492 ft (150 m) in height. The tallest building in Baltimore and Maryland is the 40-story 100 Light Street (formerly and still commonly known as the Transamerica Tower), which rises 529 feet (161 m) and was completed in 1973.[1]
As one of the largest cities in the United States in the late 19th century, Baltimore is the site of some of the earliest high-rises in the country. Baltimore's first high-rise, the 10-story Equitable Building, was completed in 1883 and was followed by the Fidelity Building in 1893. An early construction boom lasted from the 1890s until the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. The fire destroyed 1,500 buildings, including some of the newly built towers.[2][3] Construction resumed from the 1910s to the 1920s. Notable skyscrapers include the Renaissance Revival Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower in 1911[4] and the Art Deco Bank of America Building in 1929.[5] Following the onset of the Great Depression, skyscraper development slowed over the next three decades.
The next period of high-rise construction lasted from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, during which the city saw the completion of the Transamerica Tower, the city's tallest building; the Baltimore World Trade Center, the tallest regular pentagonal skyscraper in the world; and the postmodern Commerce Place, featuring a tapering top. The Inner Harbor was largely developed during this period, with projects such as Harborplace.[6][7] In the early 21st century, high-rise development has spread further eastwards along the Patapsco River with the Inner Harbor East and Harbor Point neighborhoods. Baltimore's most recent major skyscraper is 414 Light Street, a 500 ft (152 m) residential building completed in 2018 as the city's third-tallest building.[8][9]
Baltimore's tallest buildings are concentrated in Downtown Baltimore and the Inner Harbor, northwest of the estuary of the Patapsco River. There are also several residential towers in the neighborhood of Mid-Town Belvedere, as well as high-rises around the campuses of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In Baltimore's metropolitan area, there are an appreciable number of high-rises in the cities of Columbia and Towson. Due to height restrictions in nearby Washington D.C. as a result of the Height of Buildings Act of 1910, Baltimore has the tallest buildings in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area of over 10 million people.
History
[edit]Number of buildings by height in Baltimore by the end of each year, based on the information in this article. This takes into account three demolished buildings. Click on the legend to toggle a specific height on or off. View chart definition.
The history of skyscrapers in Baltimore began with the completion in 1883 of the Equitable Building. The Equitable Building is located at the southwest corner of North Calvert and East Fayette Street, across from the Beaux Arts/Classical Revival architecture of the Baltimore City Courthouse and the landmark Battle Monument in Battle Monument Square, commemorating the fallen in the defense of the city during the 1814 Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. "The Equitable", as it became known, replaced an earlier landmark from 1825, Barnum's City Hotel, and was the first steel cage framed building with outside surface panels of stone hung on the frame, a new technique pioneered by Chicago architects like Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham.
The Fidelity Building was constructed shortly after in 1893. Both the Fidelity Building and the Equitable Building are regarded as the first high-rises in the city.[10] The Fidelity Building originally rose eight floors, but an additional seven stories with a terra cotta panels façade designed to match the original earlier grey granite rough-cut stone base, were constructed between 1912 and 1915, bringing the structure's total height to 220 feet (67 m), making it the first building in Baltimore to exceed 200 feet (61 m).[10]
Baltimore went through an early high-rise construction boom from the late 1890s to the Great Baltimore Fire of February 1904. During the fire, six of the new skyscraper's interiors burned out. Most were later judged by inspecting engineers/architects as structurally sound with their steel I-beam cage framing and masonry facades and were reconstructed and rehabilitated in the next five years in a flurry of downtown rebuilding. The next period from the 1910s to the late 1920s, during which time the Baltimore Trust Company Tower (now the Bank of America Building) were constructed.
The city's central business district then experienced a long fallow period due to the Great Depression of the 1930s and the defense industrial efforts of World War II. Very few skyscrapers were constructed during this period, and downtown remained relatively stable. The release of the Charles Center project proposal by the recently organized Greater Baltimore Committee and the local Chamber of Commerce contributed to the beginning of another construction boom from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. This was followed by the "Inner Harbor" redevelopment around the old waterfront piers, wharves, warehouses, offices and businesses of the former "Basin" along the Baltimore Harbor at the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River. Among the buildings completed in the second half of the 20th century include the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company's new headquarters (later the Legg Mason Building, now the Transamerica Tower) at the corner of the harbor at Pratt and Light Streets, and the five-sides/pentagonal high-rise centerpiece of the harbor, the Baltimore World Trade Center for the Maryland Port Administration in 1977.
Cityscape
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Map of tallest buildings
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Buildings taller than 200 ft (61 m) in Baltimore. An asterisk (*) next to the building's name indicates it is located outside the map.
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- 1960s
- 1970s
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- 2000s
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100 Light Street2
Bank of America Building3
414 Light Street4
William Donald Schaefer Building5
Commerce Place6
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel7
100 East Pratt Street8
Baltimore World Trade Center9
Tremont Plaza Hotel10
Charles Towers South Apartments11
1 Light Street12
One North Charles13
250 West Pratt Street14
Towers at Harbor Court15
Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore16
201 North Charles Street Building17
Charles Towers North Apartments18
St. Paul Plaza19
Legg Mason Tower20
Exelon Tower21
The Gallery at Harborplace22
414 Water Street23
HarborView Condominium24
Charles Center South25
Wells Fargo Tower26
Redwood Tower27
Canton Crossing Tower*28
120 East Baltimore Street29
Lord Baltimore Hotel30
Mercantile Deposit and Trust31
25 South Charles32
Silo Point*33
Vue Harbor East34
Mary Catherine Bunting Building35
Vivo Living Baltimore South36
George H. Fallon Federal Office Building37
39 West Lexington38
Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower39
Liberty Harbor East40
Vivo Living Baltimore North41
Mercy Medical Center Inpatient Tower42
750 East Pratt Street43
Avalon 555 President44
Park Charles45
One Charles Center46
100 South Charles Street47
300 East Lombard Street48
The Residences at 300 St. Paul49
First National Bank Building50
One Calvert Plaza51
Allied Harbor Point52
Shiekh Zayed Tower53
Standard Oil Building54
Health Sciences Research Facility III55
Bressler Research Building56
John and Frances Angelos Law Center*57
Constellation Energy Building Annex58
Munsey Building59
Hilton Baltimore60
Maryland State Office Building*61
Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center62
Fidelity Building63
St. Paul at Chase Condominiums*64
10 East Baltimore Street65
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery66
The B & O Building67
The Zenith68
Court Square Building69
Alfred Blalock Building70
Spinnaker Bay71
The Essential72
Telephone Building73
Centerpoint74
J Van Story Branch Sr. ApartmentsTallest buildings
[edit]This list ranks completed buildings in Baltimore that stand at least 200 ft (61 m) tall as of 2026, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. The “Year” column indicates the year of completion. Buildings tied in height are sorted by year of completion with earlier buildings ranked first, and then alphabetically.
Was the tallest building in Baltimore upon completion
| Rank | Name | Image | Location | Height ft (m) |
Floors | Year | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 Light Street | 39°17′14″N 76°36′52″W / 39.287285°N 76.614395°W | 529 (161.2) | 40 | 1973 | Office | Tallest building in Baltimore and Maryland since 1973. Tallest building in the city completed in the 1970s. In 2011, the building was renamed the Transamerica Tower. However, Transamerica left the tower in 2023, and the building's name was reverted back to its address name.[1][11][12] | |
| 2 | Bank of America Building | 39°17′21″N 76°36′51″W / 39.289276°N 76.614044°W | 509 (155.2) | 37 | 1929 | Residential | Also known as 10 Light Street. Built as the Baltimore Trust Company Building. Tallest building in Baltimore completed in the 1920s. Tallest building in Baltimore from 1929 to 1973. Originally an office building, it was converted to apartments in 2015.[13][14][5][15] | |
| 3 | 414 Light Street | 39°17′02″N 76°36′49″W / 39.283867°N 76.613571°W | 500 (152.4) | 44 | 2018 | Residential | Opened for occupancy in 2018, the building's roof was topped out in November 2017.[16] Built on the original site of the McCormick & Company Factory that was razed in the 1980s.[17][18] Tallest building in the city completed in the 2010s.[8] | |
| 4 | William Donald Schaefer Building | 39°17′23″N 76°36′50″W / 39.28978°N 76.613983°W | 493 (150.3) | 29 | 1992 | Office | Tallest building in the city completed in the 1990s.[19][20][21] | |
| 5 | Commerce Place | 39°17′22″N 76°36′38″W / 39.28933°N 76.610619°W | 454 (138.4) | 31 | 1992 | Office | [22][23] | |
| 6 | Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel | 39°17′00″N 76°36′10″W / 39.283428°N 76.602669°W | 430 (131.1) | 32 | 2001 | Hotel | Tallest hotel building in Baltimore.[24] | |
| 7 | 100 East Pratt Street | 39°17′14″N 76°36′46″W / 39.287258°N 76.612816°W | 419 (127.6) | 28 | 1992 | Office | [25][26][27] | |
| 8 | Baltimore World Trade Center | 39°17′10″N 76°36′35″W / 39.285999°N 76.609734°W | 405 (123.5) | 32 | 1977 | Office | Tallest regular pentagonal building in the world.[28][29] | |
| 9 | Tremont Plaza Hotel | 39°17′32″N 76°36′51″W / 39.292099°N 76.614243°W | 395 (120.4) | 37 | 1967 | Hotel | Tallest building in Baltimore completed in the 1960s.[30][31] Formerly the Tremont Plaza Hotel.[32] | |
| 10 | Charles Towers South Apartments | 39°17′31″N 76°37′00″W / 39.292061°N 76.616638°W | 385 (117.4) | 30 | 1969 | Residential | [33][34][35] | |
| 11 | 1 Light Street | 39°17′21″N 76°36′48″W / 39.289295°N 76.613266°W | 364 (111) | 26 | 2019 | Mixed-use | Mixed-use office and residential building.[36][37] | |
| 12 | One North Charles | 39°17′25″N 76°36′53″W / 39.290184°N 76.614761°W | 360 (109.7) | 30 | 1962 | Office | Formerly known as the Blaustein Building until 2017.[38][39] | |
| 13 | 250 West Pratt Street | 39°17′12″N 76°37′08″W / 39.286728°N 76.618805°W | 360 (109.7) | 24 | 1986 | Office | Tallest building in the city completed in the 1980s.[40][41] | |
| 14 | Towers at Harbor Court | 39°16′57″N 76°36′52″W / 39.282467°N 76.614418°W | 356 (108.5) | 28 | 1987 | Residential | [42][43][44] | |
| 15 | Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore | 39°16′58″N 76°36′08″W / 39.28273°N 76.602219°W | 352 (107.3) | 28 | 2011 | Mixed-use | Mixed-use residential and hotel building.[45] | |
| 16 | 201 North Charles Street Building | 39°17′29″N 76°36′54″W / 39.291294°N 76.614983°W | 350 (106.7) | 28 | 1967 | Office | [46][47][48] | |
| 17 | Charles Towers North Apartments | 39°17′33″N 76°36′58″W / 39.292408°N 76.616058°W | 350 (106.7) | 27 | 1967 | Residential | Also known as Eight Charles Center.[49][50][51] | |
| 18 | St. Paul Plaza | 39°17′29″N 76°36′52″W / 39.291313°N 76.61438°W | 350 (106.7) | 25 | 1989 | Office | [52][53][54] | |
| 19 | Legg Mason Tower | 39°16′57″N 76°36′06″W / 39.282551°N 76.601555°W | 350 (106.7) | 24 | 2009 | Office | Tallest building completed in Baltimore in the 2000s.[55][56][57] | |
| 20 | Exelon Tower | 39°16′52″N 76°35′55″W / 39.281189°N 76.598633°W | 350 (106.7) | 20 | 2016 | Mixed-use | Mixed-use office and residential building.[58][59] | |
| 21 | The Gallery at Harborplace | 39°17′15″N 76°36′43″W / 39.287624°N 76.611809°W | 346 (105.5) | 28 | 1988 | Office | Also known as Harborplace Tower.[60][61] | |
| 22 | 414 Water Street | 39°17′20″N 76°36′34″W / 39.288776°N 76.609383°W | 344 (104.8) | 33 | 2008 | Residential | [62][63] | |
| 23 | HarborView Condominium | 39°16′39″N 76°36′15″W / 39.277546°N 76.604263°W | 343 (104.4) | 29 | 1993 | Residential | Also known as Harborview Tower.[64][65][66] | |
| 24 | Charles Center South | 39°17′17″N 76°36′56″W / 39.28796°N 76.615479°W | 330 (100.6) | 25 | 1975 | Office | [67][68][69] | |
| 25 | Wells Fargo Tower | 39°17′24″N 76°36′49″W / 39.290031°N 76.613525°W | 330 (100.6) | 25 | 1985 | Office | Formerly known as First Union Signet Tower and Wachovia Tower.[70][71][72] | |
| 26 | Redwood Tower | – | 39°17′19″N 76°36′42″W / 39.288605°N 76.611534°W | 323 (98.5) | 23 | 1987 | Office | [73][74] |
| 27 | Canton Crossing Tower | 39°16′32″N 76°34′08″W / 39.275497°N 76.568756°W | 323 (98.5) | 17 | 2006 | Mixed-use | Mixed-use office and residential building. Also known as First Mariner Bank.[75] | |
| 28 | 120 East Baltimore Street | 39°17′23″N 76°36′46″W / 39.289845°N 76.612762°W | 320 (97.5) | 25 | 1989 | Office | Also known as SunTrust Bank Building, Bank of Baltimore Building, and Crestar Bank Building.[76] | |
| 29 | Lord Baltimore Hotel | 39°17′23″N 76°36′58″W / 39.289803°N 76.616158°W | 315 (96) | 23 | 1928 | Hotel | Also known as Radisson Plaza Hotel Inner Harbor.[77][78] | |
| 30 | Mercantile Deposit and Trust | 39°17′21″N 76°37′02″W / 39.28912°N 76.617188°W | 315 (96) | 21 | 1969 | Residential | Also known as also known as 2 Hopkins Plaza, 10 Hopkins Plaza, and 2Hopkins. Originally an office building, it was converted to residential use in 2017.[79][80][81] | |
| 31 | 25 South Charles | 39°17′18″N 76°36′53″W / 39.288284°N 76.614616°W | 315 (96) | 22 | 1972 | Office | Previously known as M&T Bank Building and the First Maryland Building.[82][83][84] | |
| 32 | Silo Point | 39°16′12″N 76°35′18″W / 39.269928°N 76.588394°W | 310 (94.5) | 24 | 2009 | Residential | Formerly a grain elevator built in 1923, known as the Baltimore and Ohio Locust Point Grain Terminal Elevator. In 2009, it was converted from a grain elevator to a condominium tower.[85][86] | |
| 33 | Vue Harbor East | 39°17′00″N 76°36′05″W / 39.28344°N 76.601295°W | 306 (93.3) | 30 | 2007 | Mixed-use | Mixed-use residential and hotel building.[87][88] | |
| 34 | Mary Catherine Bunting Building | 39°17′39″N 76°36′47″W / 39.294102°N 76.612938°W | 302 (92.1) | 18 | 2010 | Health | Part of the Mercy Medical Center.[89] | |
| 35 | Vivo Living Baltimore South | 39°17′23″N 76°37′02″W / 39.289760°N 76.617316°W | 302 (92.0) | 27 | 1974 | Residential | Formerly a hotel building, part of the Inner Harbour complex. Converted to residential use in 2024.[90] | |
| 36 | George H. Fallon Federal Office Building | 39°17′17″N 76°37′00″W / 39.28817°N 76.616783°W | 298 (91)[i] | 17 | 1967 | Office | [91] | |
| 37 | 39 West Lexington | 39°17′28″N 76°37′01″W / 39.291241°N 76.617081°W | 293 (89.3) | 21 | 1916 | Residential | Formerly known as the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building, Constellation Energy/BG&E Building, and Lexington Street Building West Tower. Tallest building in Baltimore from 1916 to 1929.[92][93] | |
| 38 | Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower | 39°17′16″N 76°37′14″W / 39.28767°N 76.620636°W | 289 (88.1) | 15 | 1911 | Office | Often just called the Emerson Tower, the Bromo-Seltzer Tower, or the Bromo Tower. Tallest building in Baltimore from 1911 to 1916.[94][4] | |
| 39 | Liberty Harbor East | 39°16′59″N 76°35′54″W / 39.283047°N 76.598381°W | 288 (88) | 22 | 2018 | Residential | [95][96][97][98] | |
| 40 | Vivo Living Baltimore North | 39°17′24″N 76°37′01″W / 39.2900567°N 76.61693°W | 280 (85.3) | 27 | 1967 | Residential | Formerly a hotel building, part of the Inner Harbour complex. Converted to residential use in 2024.[99][100] | |
| 41 | Mercy Medical Center Inpatient Tower | – | 39°17′34″N 76°36′48″W / 39.292912°N 76.613235°W | 276 (84) | 20 | 1963 | Health | [101] |
| 42 | 750 East Pratt Street | 39°17′14″N 76°36′20″W / 39.287338°N 76.605446°W | 272 (83) | 18 | 2002 | Office | [102][103] | |
| 43 | Avalon 555 President | 39°17′05″N 76°36′08″W / 39.284698°N 76.602158°W | 271 (82.6) | 24 | 2020 | Residential | Also known as 800 Fleet.[104][105] | |
| 44 | Park Charles | 39°17′29″N 76°36′58″W / 39.291527°N 76.616241°W | 270 (82.3) | 25 | 1985 | Residential | [106][107] | |
| 45 | One Charles Center | 39°17′27″N 76°36′57″W / 39.290848°N 76.615715°W | 269 (82) | 25 | 1963 | Office | [108][109] | |
| 46 | 100 South Charles Street | 39°17′13″N 76°36′55″W / 39.286991°N 76.615402°W | 265 (81)[i] | 17 | 1980 | Office | Also known as the Bank of America Center - Tower I and NationsBank Center.[110] | |
| 47 | 300 East Lombard Street | 39°17′18″N 76°36′38″W / 39.28830°N 76.610458°W | 261 (80)[i] | 20 | 1984 | Office | Also known as the Baltimore Federal Financial Building.[111] | |
| 48 | The Residences at 300 St. Paul | 39°17′34″N 76°36′52″W / 39.2926517°N 76.6143769°W | 259 (78.9) | 19 | 1957 | Residential | [112] | |
| 49 | First National Bank Building | 39°17′19″N 76°36′51″W / 39.288609°N 76.614067°W | 254 (77.4) | 20 | 1924 | Office | [113][114] | |
| 50 | One Calvert Plaza | 39°17′22″N 76°36′43″W / 39.289375°N 76.611992°W | 250 (76.2) | 16 | 1901 | Office | Tallest building in Baltimore from 1901 to 1911.[115][116] | |
| 51 | Allied Harbor Point | – | 39°16′51″N 76°35′51″W / 39.2807511°N 76.5974285°W | 246 (75)[ii] | 25 | 2025 | Residential | [117] |
| 52 | Shiekh Zayed Tower | 39°17′47″N 76°35′32″W / 39.2963669°N 76.5923488°W | 234 (71)[i] | 12 | 2012 | Health | Part of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.[118] | |
| 53 | Standard Oil Building | 39°17′44″N 76°36′49″W / 39.295456°N 76.61348°W | 233 (71) | 15 | 1922 | Residential | Also known as The Standard. Originally an office building, it was converted to residential use in 2002.[119][120][121] | |
| 54 | Health Sciences Research Facility III | 39°17′24″N 76°37′35″W / 39.2899121°N 76.6262507°W | 233 (71)[i] | 13 | 2018 | Education | Part of the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.[122][123] | |
| 55 | Bressler Research Building | – | 39°17′20″N 76°37′32″W / 39.2889086°N 76.6255665°W | 232 (71)[i] | 14 | 1976 | Education | Part of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.[124] |
| 56 | John and Frances Angelos Law Center | 39°18′21″N 76°36′57″W / 39.3058755°N 76.6158235°W | 231 (70.5) | 12 | 2013 | Education | [125][126] | |
| 57 | Constellation Energy Building Annex | – | 39°17′28″N 76°37′01″W / 39.29100°N 76.616814°W | 225 (68.6) | 14 | 1966 | Office | [127] |
| 58 | Munsey Building | 39°17′25″N 76°36′43″W / 39.290195°N 76.612038°W | 224 (68.3) | 17 | 1912 | Residential | Originally an office building, it was converted to apartments in 2002.[128][129] | |
| 59 | Hilton Baltimore | 39°17′09″N 76°37′17″W / 39.2859365°N 76.62140874°W | 224 (68.3) | 20 | 2008 | Hotel | [130] | |
| 60 | Maryland State Office Building | 39°18′09″N 76°37′22″W / 39.302433°N 76.622887°W | 223 (68) | 15 | 1957 | Office | [131] | |
| 61 | Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center | 39°17′45″N 76°35′28″W / 39.2957664°N 76.591215°W | 221 (67)[i] | 12 | 2012 | Health | Part of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.[118][132] | |
| 62 | Fidelity Building | 39°17′29″N 76°36′56″W / 39.291355°N 76.615578°W | 220 (67.2) | 15 | 1893 | Office | Tallest building in Baltimore from 1893 to 1901.[133][134] | |
| 63 | St. Paul at Chase Condominiums | 39°18′10″N 76°36′51″W / 39.302757°N 76.614082°W | 217 (66.2) | 22 | 1965 | Residential | [135] | |
| 64 | 10 East Baltimore Street | – | 39°17′23″N 76°36′53″W / 39.289787°N 76.614822°W | 216 (66)[i] | 16 | 1973 | Office | Also known as the WR Grace Building.[136] |
| 65 | Baltimore College of Dental Surgery | – | 39°17′23″N 76°37′32″W / 39.2897507°N 76.6254625°W | 215 (66)[i] | 10 | 2005 | Education | Part of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.[137] |
| 66 | The B & O Building | 39°17′24″N 76°36′56″W / 39.289894°N 76.615562°W | 213 (65) | 16 | 1906 | Office | [138] | |
| 67 | The Zenith | – | 39°17′09″N 76°37′21″W / 39.2859574°N 76.622432°W | 208 (63.4) | 21 | 2007 | Residential | [139] |
| 68 | Court Square Building | 39°17′29″N 76°36′44″W / 39.29137°N 76.612144°W | 207 (63) | 18 | 1929 | Office | [140] | |
| 69 | Alfred Blalock Building | – | 39°17′53″N 76°35′33″W / 39.2981139°N 76.5924038°W | 207 (63) | 14 | 1951 | Health | Part of Johns Hopkins Hospital.[141] |
| 70 | Spinnaker Bay | – | 39°16′58″N 76°36′04″W / 39.282898°N 76.601151°W | 207 (63)[i] | 19 | 2005 | Residential | [142] |
| 71 | The Essential | – | 39°18′03″N 76°35′27″W / 39.3009583°N 76.5908084°W | 206 (63)[i] | 20 | 2012 | Residential | Affiliated student housing for Johns Hopkins University.[143][144] |
| 72 | Telephone Building | 39°17′36″N 76°36′52″W / 39.29327°N 76.614433°W | 205 (62.5) | 14 | 1941 | Office | Also known as the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Building.[145] | |
| 73 | Centerpoint | – | 39°17′25″N 76°37′12″W / 39.29026°N 76.619942°W | 205 (62.5) | 17 | 2004 | Residential | [146] |
| 74 | J Van Story Branch Sr Apartments | – | 39°19′16″N 76°37′03″W / 39.32110°N 76.61741°W | 61 (+200) | 20 | 1973 | Residential | [147] |
Tallest demolished
[edit]There have been three buildings taller than 200 ft (61 m) in Baltimore that no longer stand today.
| Name | Image | Height ft (m) |
Floors | Year completed | Year demolished | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower Building | – | 330 (100.6) | 16 | 1912 | 1987 | Also known as the Maryland Casualty Company Tower. Demolished in 1986 due to structural instability.[148][149] |
| Broadway Homes Tower | – | 231 (70.4) | 22 | 1971 | 2000 | [150] |
| New Emerson Hotel | – | 220 (67.1) | 18 | 1911 | 1971 | Demolished in 1971 for the SunTrust Bank Building (now 120 East Baltimore Street).[151][152] |
Timeline of tallest buildings
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This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Baltimore.
| Name | Image | Street address | Years as tallest | Height ft (m) |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Building | 210 North Charles Street | 1893–1901 | 220 (67.2) | 15 | [153] | |
| One Calvert Plaza | 201 East Baltimore Street | 1901–1911 | 250 (76.2) | 16 | [154] | |
| Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower | 312 West Lombard Street | 1911–1923 | 289 (88.1) | 15 | [155] | |
| Constellation Energy Building[iii] | 39 West Lexington Street | 1916–1923 | 293 (89.3) | 21 | [156] | |
| Baltimore Trust Company Building[iv] | 10 Light Street | 1924–1973 | 509 (155.2) | 37 | [14] | |
| 100 Light Street[v] | 100 Light Street | 1973–present | 529 (161.2) | 40 | [11] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Sources do not state the exact height of this building. This figure was determined using Google Earth by subtracting the altitude of the building's lowest main pedestrian open-air entrance from its highest architectural point.
- ^ Sources do not state the exact height of this building. This figure is an estimate based on the number of above-ground floors, based on a height of 3 metres (9.8 feet) per floor.
- ^ Now known as 39 West Lexington.
- ^ Now known as the Bank of America Tower. Formerly also known as the NationsBank Building, the Mathieson Building, the O'Sullivan Building and the Maryland National Bank.
- ^ Formerly known as the Transamerica Tower.
See also
[edit]- List of tallest buildings in the Washington metropolitan area
- List of tallest buildings in Washington D.C.
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External links
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