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BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING

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1972, Peterson and Brickbauer. 700 E. Joppa Rd.
  • (Photograph by Alexander Heilner)
  • (Photograph by Alexander Heilner)
  • (Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie)

Built for Maryland Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurance company, this bold mirrored glass cube served as its headquarters until 1989. The design by Peterson and Brickbauer, best known for Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport, places the main eleven-story tower on a verdant green lawn with a semicircular recessed drive and concrete base of subterranean parking. A dramatic red-glazed brick heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) tower sits in the foreground of the site, reflected in the glass wall of the tower and consistent with Brickbauer’s later use of red-glazed tile walls at BWI. After Blue Cross-Blue Shield relocated in 1989, Baltimore County purchased the building and its approximately seven-acre site to house its Public Safety Department.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Timeline

  • 1972

    Built

What's Nearby

GOUCHER COLLEGE
BALTIMORE COUNTY COURTHOUSE
STEPHENS HALL, TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY
HAMPTON (HAMPTON NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE)
SHEPPARD-PRATT HOSPITAL

Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING", [Towson, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-CM24.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 246-246.

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