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CANTON HOUSE

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1923, Smith and May. 300 Water St.
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (HABS)
  • (Alexander Heilner)

The Colonial Revival Canton House was designed as the headquarters for the Canton Company, first established in 1828. One of Baltimore’s largest corporations, Canton was a real estate development, import-export, and manufacturing enterprise that contributed significantly to the rise of the city as a world-class industrial and commercial center. Its myriad operations were located in the waterfront community created and named for the company. Then-president Walter B. Brooks selected Colonial Revival for Canton House to reflect the architecture of the period in which the company was first developed, thereby signifying its long-standing legacy. Built of Flemish-bond brick above a first floor of ashlar limestone, Canton House is elegant in its austerity. The narrow South Street facade approximates a Federal-period town house while the elongated Water Street side with parapet end wall is evocative of early-nineteenth-century commercial architecture.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Timeline

  • 1923

    Built

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Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "CANTON HOUSE", [Baltimore, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-BC45.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 179-180.

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